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Boeing today in a press release announced an agreement with Iran Air for 80 aircraft, including 50 737 MAX 8s, 15 777-300ERs, and 15 777-9s. The agreement does comply with a US government license that was issued in September, and will be the largest deal with the country since President Obama lifted sanctions early in […]

This is part six of “The Name Game” series. For earlier parts, check out Part One,  Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five covering other major regions around the world.  No two aircraft are alike, and while every carrier can showcase this fact by slapping a registration number on the aircraft and recording the airplane’s […]

United’s first Boeing 777-300ER will begin regularly scheduled service in February 2017. The aircraft features United’s new onboard Polaris product and seating configuration. With the flight schedules updating tomorrow, United will debut the extended 777 between Newark and San Francisco on a six day per week roundtrip basis. These domestic flights will operate between Feb. […]

Over the past few days, many news outlets have run stories with an attention grabbing headline such as “United is now charging for overhead bins” – or some variation of the sort. Even some bloggers have picked up the story and the news has gone viral in some regards. However, not only is this not […]

In today’s ever connected and increasingly technologically dependent age, airlines are exploring new ways of attracting frequent flyers as well as new customers. The four largest US airlines have been very active in their television advertisements, and they each have a unique way of doing so. American American’s new commercials follows suit with their new […]

With Purdue University consistently looking for ways to get ahead in the aviation world, the university looked to the skies as its next resource. The West Lafayette-based university had already made records in the 1930s when it became the first academic institution to own an airport, with the creation of Purdue University Airport on November […]

easyJet has announced that they will be reopening their Bournemouth to Geneva flights from Dec. 10. This will be the 12th season that EasyJet has operated these flights with up to 7 per week. Paul Kight, Managing Director of Bournemouth Airport said,“The easyJet route to Geneva has proved extremely popular over the years and we […]

On Dec. 7, 2016 at 4:42PM local time, Pakistan International Airlines flight 661 vanished from the radar on its flight from Chitral to Islamabad. The flight, an ATR-42-500, was carrying 42 passengers and six crew members when it crashed outside of the town of Havelian. The flight departed Chitral around 3:30PM local time and crashed […]

Reykjavik-based Icelandair has announced plans to operate flights from Reykjavik to Belfast City on a three times per week basis starting in June 2017. The airline will use Air Iceland’s Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 on Tuesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Air Iceland has codesharing agreements with Icelandair that will offer connectivity between the Northern Irish destination […]

Alaska Airlines has been cleared by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to proceed with the acquisition of Burlingame, CA-based Virgin America. According to Alaska, they were not required to divest any assets by the DOJ, however, the department will require them to significantly downsize their codeshare agreements with American […]