trip report

As airlines around the world introduce more routes in order to connect destinations together with the least amount of stops, this airline enthusiast decided to go in the exact opposite direction; the most amount of stops, and on the slowest type of aircraft…propeller planes. I’ve wanted to make this journey for years and my class […]

For a number of reasons, the Bolivian aviation market is a very peculiar one. While most of the South American countries are dominated by huge airlines or airline groups, the local scene has none of it. And there’s an important factor in this equation: Boliviana de Aviación. Known simply as BoA, the airline was founded […]

After a very pleasant flight from São Paulo to Madrid with Boliviana de Aviación and some hours of planespotting in Barajas Airport, it was time to return home. I was excited to see if BoA would maintain the good impression I had on the first few flights. OB777 MAD-VVI I arrived to Madrid’s Terminal 4 […]

On the same day AirlineGeeks visited ASTA Linhas Aéreas’ headquarters and hangar in Cuiabá, Brazil, the company started a new route — a very welcomed coincidence. The new flight would connect the airline’s base to Nova Mutum, a short 126-mile route. Nova Mutum is a city in central Mato Grosso with a population of just […]

The domestic Peruvian market has changed a lot in the last three years. Throughout this time span, the market has seen the exit of local operators such as LC Peru and Peruvian Airlines who operated using aging Boeing 737 aircraft domestically. Though they lacked transparency in their corporate image, both won a spot in a […]

At over 8,000 nautical miles, The Singapore-Newark route is currently the world’s longest with regularly scheduled service. It’s a very prestigious route flown by Singapore Airlines using its Airbus A350-900ULR aircraft designed specifically with the route in mind. First opened with the Airbus A340-500 earlier in the century, the route relaunched in October 2018 with […]

Qatar Airways and its main hub Hamad International Airport recently announced an expansion to the airport that would increase its capacity in time for the 2022 World Cup and make it a destination without itself. En route to Doha, AirlineGeeks was invited by Qatar Airways to fly in its newest product, Qsuites, in business class. […]

In mid-June, Aegean Airlines was once again named Europe’s Best Regional Airline for the ninth consecutive year by Skytrax World Airline Awards. Commonly referred to as the “Oscars of the aviation industry,” Skytrax has come under scrutiny on multiple occasions for the various awards it has handed out, including the recent downgrading of Turkish Airlines’ […]

One month after having its first Embraer E195-E2 delivered, Azul started commercial flights with the new generation regional jet on Thursday, making a roundtrip between its hub in Campinas and Brazil’s capital city of Brasília. PR-PJN, named “Sou Azul” and still the only E2 in Azul’s fleet, was designated to operate flights AZU9290/9291 VCP-BSB-VCP, only […]

Since TAM became LATAM after the merger with LAN at the start of 2016, many changes in the airline’s service have occurred. The airline that, pushed a “premium” service from the beginning, needed to adapt to the reality of the market to assure its survival. Thus, the carrier adopted low-cost practices, such as the increase […]