American Airlines is insisting it needs gynecological records, as well as psychological records of the daughter a woman killed on American Airlines 587, which crashed on November 12, 2001 in Queens. A hearing has been scheduled for tomorrow. Only six passenger cases from the crash are left unsettled and there seems to be no reason…
Spirit Airlines today announced nonstop service to San Pedro Sula, Honduras from its Ft. Lauderdale hub. Service will be offered three times a week from July 20th through November 15, when it will become daily. Southwest announced four daily nonstop flights in six cities. Beginning August 26th, one new daily nonstop from Manchester to Phoenix…
American Airlines will be upgrading Boeing 757 aircraft, of which it has 124 in its fleet, over the next two years. The enhancements will include new economy cabin suits, new sidewalls, new LCD monitors to replace the CRTs for inflight entertainment, and new digital media file servers for better in-flight audio and video entertainment quality.…
Investigators say that fatigued air traffic controllers contributed to four aviation mishaps in recent years…including the Comair crash. They are calling on the FAA to revise work schedules and take other action. Their union jumped on the report as validation of its own claims that air traffic controllers are overworked and understaffed. Details available here.…
Continental Airlines announced Friday it now has interline eticketing capabilties with all Alliance partners now that it has implemented them with Air Europa. All codeshare, Skyteam, planned Skyteam associates, and frequent flyer partners are now complete. They expect to eliminate issuing and accepting paper tickets by the end of the year, in accordance with IATA’s…
Airtran Airways will be expanding service from Las Vegas to Dayton(three times weekly), Canton/Akron(three times weekly), Flint(four times weekly), and Rochester(three times weekly) effective August 15th. Delta will be returning to service from JFK to Tel Aviv effective March 10th, complementing its Atlanta service. The new service will be operated with 767-300ER aircraft. We were…
US Airways and Northwest Airlines have received temporary liquor licenses from the state of New Mexico and are once again selling alcohol on flights to and from the state. Expressjet, which just opened its service, plans to sell alcohol in the air before it gets its license, taking the same view as other carriers that…
A white mouse onboard a Japan-bound Vietnam Airlines flight delayed the flight for four hours. The rodent had to be seized as a matter of safety. It was theorized it might have been brought on in carry-on luggage. On Thursday, Pinnacle Airlines, which operates as Northwest Airlink, was involved in an incident as Flight 4712…
Jetblue is adding Saturday service from Boston to Aruba to complement its JFK service effective June 30th. It will also add service from Boston to San Diego once daily effective June 28th. Connections will be available to its partner, Cape Air. Southwest Airlines will be adding one additional daily nonstop flight between Albuquerque and Dallas…
Four fighter jets, two F-15s and two F-16s, were dispatched to inspect a Continental Airlines Boeing 777 today from Newark to Tel Aviv which failed to make contact with Air Traffic Control and comply with international regulations as it approached Israeli airspace. The fighters incepted the Flight 90, carrying 251 passengers, once it reached the…
United will add a $10 surcharge for all passengers out of LAX to offset a $10 million rent increase imposed by the Los Angeles World Airports effective immediately. United is one of several airlines suing LAWA, which runs LAX, over the increase and has decided to encourage public outrage by making the passenger pay the…
ATA announced last week that it would acquire World Air Holdings, which owns charter carriers World Airways and North American Airlines. North American, based at JFK, offers some regularly scheduled service. World Air Holdings did not acquire North American that long ago itself. The airlines would be operated as three separate airlines under one corporate…
Some days in the airline industry, it seems a neverending stream of negative publicity. Here are a few things we caught over the last few days. It fails to inspire us. (Note: In every one of our roundups, links to a news source are provided for each item. Feel free to click through for more…
Spirit today announced nonstop service from its hub in Ft. Lauderdale to Guatemala City, Guatemala once daily effective May 10th. Commercial passenger service will be terminating in Lake Havasu City, Arizona effective May 6th. Mesa Airlines, which provides service from the airport to Phoenix and Las Vegas. A Mesa analysis on the Havasu airport showed…
Midwest Airlines continued its rollout of 50-seater regional jets operated by Skywest Airlines as Midwest Connect with the inauguration of service onboard these jets from Milwaukee to Columbus, OH and on select flights between Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. Paul and Philadelphia. Midwest’s new route between Kansas City and Seattle/Tacoma launched today. The flights operate as Midwest…
On Monday, April 2, Expressjet and LA/Ontario International Airport will join together to announce the beginning of scheduled service, which is considered the largest expansion in the airport’s 84 years. United’s service from Washington-Dulles Airport to Rome will be beginning this weekend. Flight 966 will depart Dulles on April 1, and return as flight 967…
Avianca, the flagship carrier of Colombia, announced an order for 10 787s. Later this week, Air Canada will be picking up its first Boeing 777, which will kick off its wide-body modernization program. Over the next two years, Air Canada will receive 19 777s, as well as 45 100-seat Embraer 190s. Delta announced service from…
Qantas announced it will increase services from New York effective August 14th to offer daily flights to Sydney via Los Angeles. The new schedule will include seven flights per week from New York to Sydney via Los Angeles. Thirty five flights per week from Los Angeles, with an additional three from June 19th-July 28th. Five…
intends to connect to more of upstate New York. Delta will be adding 22 Delta Connection flights, operated by Big Sky Airlines using 19-seater Beechcraft 1900D aircraft, effective April 8th. The flights will connect customers in Albany, Massena, Ogdensburg, and Watertown to Boston, with additional nonstop service between Albany and Watertown with continuing service to…
The Associated Press reports that a United flight from Chicago to Portland, Oregon was diverted to Salt Lake City on Friday after Kenneth R. Bullard of Jacksonville, FL attacked his son during an argument about the son’s girlfriend. Bullard had been drinking before and during the flight, and the flight attendants had to restrain him.…
The Star Alliance has launched a Visit South Africa campaign to “promote travel to Southern Africa and underscore the wide choice of flight connections to the African continent provided by the Star Alliance member carriers to US and Canadian traveler.” They want to highlight how easy it is to plan your dream trip to Africa.…
A passenger on a regional flight to Auckland, New Zealand from New Plymouth managed to bring a rifle onboard the flight. As reported, he was pulled aside only before he boarded another flight to Kerikeri. Skywest Airlines has apologized for forcing him to urinate into an air sickness bag on a flight from Boise to…
We are not surprised that the Imams thrown off a flight last November are now suing for discrimination. While US Airways told them that they were banned, forcing them to take another airline home, they now claim that was a miscommunication and they are welcome back on the carrier. US Airways, however, stands behind its…
TAM will start operating service from Sao Paulo to Cordoba, Argentina effective March 29th. Midwest Airlines will launch service from Milwaukee to Raleigh/Durham beginning June 1st. Also on that day, it will upgrade Milwaukee to BWI from 32 to 50 seat regional jets, and from Milwaukee to Des Moines…all service will now be on 32-seat…
US Airways had agreed to buy the Airbus 350 as part of an agreement for financial assistance during its merger. However, with it behind schedule, Today in the Sky reports that they are looking at the possibility of going with Boeing. Also from Today in the Sky, on June 3rd, Alitalia will add three flights…