Europe

Chief executives of some of Europe’s largest carriers met this week for the annual Airlines 4 Europe (A4E) summit and air traffic control (ATC) delays and environmental taxation were the main topics for discussion. A4E was formed in 2016 and is now the largest European airline association with a membership which includes Air France-KLM, EasyJet, […]

TAP Air Portugal flew its inaugural flight from its hub in Lisbon to San Francisco Monday with the brand new Airbus A330-900neo jet. The new service to San Francisco (SFO) marks the flag carrier’s second regular trans-Atlantic A330neo flight to the U.S. after Chicago O’Hare and is the first non-stop service to exist between Portugal […]

Eurowings recently made the move to a new location at its base in Munich. The Lufthansa Group’s low-cost airline subsidiary has moved all departure and arrival operations from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 of Munich Airport starting in the beginning of June in a move to give their travelers a not only one connected area […]

Calgary-based WestJet launched seasonal nonstop flights to Barcelona’s El Prat Airport from its hub at Toronto on Friday, marking WestJet’s fifth transatlantic service. Joining the list of the airline’s mostly seasonal European operation, this is also the airline’s first flight to Spain and the Iberian Peninsula. The new service will be operated on its existing […]

Air Europa applied last Friday to operate domestic flights within Brazil. The move is a direct result of new laws in Brazil allowing foreign airlines 100 percent ownership of Brazilian airlines, whereas foreign ownership was previously limited to 25 percent. Brazil’s congress approved last Wednesday the new law, which included the prohibition for airlines to […]

Truly a European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus has facilities in multiple countries across the European continent in addition to its main facility in Toulouse, France. One of those facilities is at Finkenwerder Airport, a private airfield near Hamburg, Germany, which assists in the production of Airbus aircraft. The airport is used exclusively by Airbus and features […]

Scandinavian airline SAS has been forced to cancel flights on Monday and Tuesday as a pilot strike by Swedish, Danish and Norwegian pilot unions continues to disrupt flight operations. In a statement to passengers, the airline said: “We deeply regret that our customers are affected by the ongoing pilot strike when SAS now cancels flights […]

Norway will soon have its own non-stop link to China once Hainan Airlines begins service between Oslo and Beijing. Hainan Airlines will be launching the service on May 15, making this the very first nonstop route between Norway and mainland China and the first non-stop Nordic service for the airline. The new service will operate […]

JetBlue Airways has announced it will begin transatlantic operations to Europe in 2021. The long-awaited announcement was made via video from JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes to employees, aided by JetBlue President and COO Joanna Geraghty, at a crewmember-only event held at the airline’s New York maintenance hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the carrier’s […]

Air Italy has landed on the West Coast, bringing Italian style to Los Angeles from Milan and providing the only nonstop link between the two cities. The inaugural flight from Milan’s Malpensa Airport arrived at Los Angeles International Airport late Wednesday afternoon marking the very first West Coast flight for the one-year-old reinvented airline. The […]