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LATAM Colombia this week inaugurated five new routes of the seven it announced last October, with which it reaches a total of 32 routes in its rapidly expanding domestic network. With this growth rate, the recovery of the Colombian LATAM Airlines Group subsidiary projects this month will reach 135% of traffic during December 2019. In […]

Air North — more commonly known as Yukon’s Airline — will be bringing its services to Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, with flights to Whitehorse, Canada, the capital of the Yukon Territory, beginning next summer. The new route will operate twice a week onboard the carrier’s largest aircraft, a Boeing 737-500, which is becoming a rarity […]

In the wake of the standoff at the Poland-Belarus border, the national airline of Belarus is looking for an alternative arrangement for future leasing deals that parts ways with leased aircraft that are tied to the European Union. The airline itself was called out this fall after being accused of bringing migrants from Iraq and […]

The month of November has been seeing great success for airlines and airports worldwide, with Singapore seeing particular success with the ever-growing Vaccinated Travel Lane scheme, meant to connect the country with a set number of outside destinations. National carrier Singapore Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Scoot have been making significant returns to the skies […]

In a recent application to the U.S. Department of Transportation, WestJet detailed its intentions to add a new destination to its transborder network to the United States. Specifically, the Calgary, Canada-based carrier plans to launch flights to Spokane, Wash. using its regional brand: WestJet Link. If all goes as planned with the application, Spokane will […]

LATAM Airlines Group and its subsidiaries in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the U.S. announced the presentation of a reorganization plan, which outlines the group’s strategy to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in accordance with U.S. and Chilean legislation. In a press release, the Chilean carrier stated that the plan is complemented by a Restructuring […]

Recently, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a notice of inquiry to recertify Boeing 737MAX. The jet has been grounded in China for 20 months after two fatal crashes, one each in Ethiopia and Indonesia. Internal sources say Air China and China Southern are in the process of unsealing a number of Boeing […]

Kenya Airways and South African Airways this week signed a strategic partnership framework that may be the pathway to co-starting a Pan-African airline group by 2023. This follows the September signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the two national carriers. This week’s signing was undertaken by the chairmen of both airlines during a state visit […]

More so than usual, airlines in the U.S. need to brace for the upcoming holiday season this year. After what was essentially a muted holiday season last year, the seams have burst and flyers are getting back to the skies in droves for the holidays. People are eager to see their loved ones for the […]

Avianca has long anticipated the entrance of its new cabin configuration in its subsidiaries, bringing a new setup with the three new seats types: Premium, Plus and Economy The Colombian carrier estimated that the first aircraft with the complete design would be ready during the second quarter of 2022 and that the total and final […]