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January 5, 2021 12:00 pm ET -
Airline Alliances Through Equity Stakes: Is the Business Model Dead?
In 2014, Etihad Airways introduced its own global alliance with the aim of linking several of its major airline investments to drive an improved global network and enhanced scheduling. Equipped with equity stakes in struggling airlines such as Air Berlin…
November 27, 2020 3:49 am ET -
Delta to Launch Quarantine Free Flights to Rome
Delta Air Lines is hoping to launch flights to Italy where passengers can skip the quarantine from December. The plan, an arrangement between the airline, Rome Fiumicino Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, will use three stages of testing to enable…
November 21, 2020 3:34 am ET -
Boeing 717 Sunsetting Means the End for The DC-9 Family
On February 25, 1965, the Douglas DC-9 took to the skies, creating a new narrowbody aircraft for the commercial aviation industry to take notice to. Much like the airlines that have utilized the jet, the aircraft itself has gone through…
November 5, 2020 5:45 am ET -
Trip Report: Delta’s Final 777 Passenger Flight
As airlines begin to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Delta is continuing to finalize some of its fleet restructuring programs. On Oct. 31, it had its final passenger flight onboard the Boeing 777 aircraft. I was lucky…
October 24, 2020 3:32 am ET -
How Airbus’ First US-Assembled A220 Impacts the Industry
Five months after Airbus inaugurated its newly completed, comprehensive hangar – designed to handle the final assembly line for the A220 commercial aircraft – in Mobile, Ala., the major aircraft manufacturer officially delivered its first-ever U.S. built A220 to Delta.…