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MIAMI – SEA’s Milan Airports and the Lombardy Regional Council have signed an agreement that fosters the joining of forces to revive tourism in the region, a well-traveled and reputed destination before the Covid induced crisis. Lombardy Council and its capital city, Milan, well known as a fashion center, along with the lakes’ region, including …
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Summary List Placement Congress’s bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill has a new mandate for Amtrak, and making a profit is not one of them. The National Passenger Rail Corporation is a reoccurring theme in the 2,702-page bill intended to revitalize America’s infrastructure. Most notably, the bill aims to place Amtrak’s purpose to connect the country …
Boeing will move its CST-100 Starliner back to the vertical integration facility Thursday after a long-awaited launch of the spacecraft was again delayed. The planned August 3 crewless launch was scrubbed after a check indicated valves in the spacecraft’s service module were in the wrong position. The problem was found during a precautionary check after …
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Air New Zealand has predicted a wider pre-tax loss of up to $NZ530m million for the 2022 financial year due to COVID lockdowns in Australia. The Kiwi carrier had previously predicted that its annual loss before tax and extraordinary items would be no more than $NZ450m — but that was before the New Zealand government …
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British Airways has re-opened its flagship US lounge as bookings to America surged by 95 percent due to eased UK COVID restrictions for fully-vaccinated international travelers. In another sign of the demand for international travel that has built up during COVID restrictions, the UK announcement prompted BA to add thousands of seats to US cities …
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MIAMI – Construction on JFK Airport’s upcoming Terminal 6 is expected to begin in mid-2022, with the building opening in 2025. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and JFK Millennium Partners have struck a revised deal for the construction of a new US$3.9bn international Terminal 6 at John F Kennedy International Airport. …
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Summary List Placement Spirit Airlines has entered its third day of excessive flight cancellations but says the end is in sight. “We’re pleased to share that cancellations will start dropping tomorrow,” a Spirit spokesperson told Insider. Hundreds of flights were canceled on Monday due to a poorly timed combination of bad weather, system outages, and …
MIAMI – Eurocontrol Director-General, Eamonn Brennan, commented on three aspects of airlines, operators, and network performance over the past seven days in comparison with the same week of 2019. Top Airlines On airlines performances, the gold medal went to Pegasus (PC) with 0% change .over 2019, followed by WizzAir (W6) with a minus 4%, Turkish …
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MIAMI – Considered today’s most ubiquitous airline, Emirates (EK) has been trotting nearly all points of the globe from its base in Dubai (DXB). The carrier offers several thousand weekly flights with an ever-growing modern and best-in-class fleet of aircraft both from Airbus and Boeing. Initiating operations with two aircraft, the airline currently boasts a …
An incredible video of an insane landing by an Indonesian airline has been posted by Matt Dearden (@IndoPilot). The aircraft is a Boeing 737-300 registered PK-YGW and owned by Tri M.G. Asian Airlines a charter cargo operator. READ World’s safest airlines 2021. The airport has not been identified, nor the date. Multi warnings can be …
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Summary List Placement Spirit Airlines canceled another 429 flights on Tuesday — most of its schedule — as bad weather and IT issues plagued the airline for a third consecutive day. The cancellations made up 61% of Spirit’s Tuesday schedule, with a futher 18% delayed, according to flight data site FlightAware. Spirit canceled more than …
Summary List Placement Air Canada’s Aeroplan loyalty program offers good value for award flights if you know where to look. You can earn and use points on Air Canada flights as well as on partner airlines like United. Chase, American Express, Capital One, and Marriott partner with Aeroplan for points transfers. Read Insider’s guide …
MIAMI – Miami International Airport (MIA) today celebrated its selection by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as a testbed location for new drone detection technology with Airways in attendance. The new technology, encompassing detect, track, and identify (DTI) equipment, will be able to identify unauthorized drones or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) entering MIA. MIA was …
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Summary List Placement One thing that Delta Air Lines flyers won’t need to pack is a vaccination card. Ed Bastian, Delta’s chief executive officer, told CNBC on Tuesday that the airline does not currently plan to require proof of vaccination to fly within the US, citing both challenges with mandating vaccinations not fully authorized by …
Just for the record 2020 was the worst year ever for airlines with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) releasing its IATA World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) publication laying bare the devastating effects on global air transport during that year of the COVID-19 crisis. Passenger numbers were down 60.2 percent to 1.8 billion, industry-wide air …
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MIAMI – The TUI Group is to consolidate its five airlines operating in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and Sweden. With the new setup, the airlines will be operated by a joint management team while key functions will be regrouped in competence centers. According to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, the reason behind the move …
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Summary List Placement Table of Contents: Masthead Sticky Greece is open to travelers with proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test, making now the ideal time to plan a visit to one of the country’s gems, Santorini. The island is best known for its iconic, whitewashed clifftop towns that offer striking panoramas of …
MIAMI – Norse Atlantic Airways is so new it does not yet have an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) or International Air Transport Association (IATA) code but it does have firm orders for its Dreamliner fleet. The new carrier has announced a pending order with BOC Aviation, a subsidiary of the Bank of China, for …
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Summary List Placement After more than a year of cancelled vacations, Alaska Airlines is encouraging travelers to get back out there with a three-day sale offering one-way fares as low as $39. The sale starts today and runs until August 5 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific for travel dates between September 7 and November 17 …
MIAMI – DHL Express, one of the world’s leaders in International cargo, announced today its new order for 12 Electric aircraft from American manufacture eViation. The aircraft will be Eviations’s cargo version called ‘Alice eCargo’, which is expected to join the group from 2024 onwards. “We firmly believe in a future with zero-emission logistics,” stated …
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Summary List Placement Chase has added Air Canada’s Aeroplan loyalty program as an Ultimate Rewards transfer partner. You can now join the waiting list for Chase’s upcoming Aeroplan credit card and earn bonus points. Aeroplan points aren’t just good for Air Canada flights — you can use them on Star Alliance partners, too. Read …
Qantas and its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar will stand down 2,500 staff as the COVID border closures across Australia continue. The airline said that the stand-down is a temporary measure to deal with a significant drop in flying caused by COVID restrictions in Greater Sydney in particular and the knock-on border closures in all other states …
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Summary List Placement The summer of vaccinated travel strikes again. Spirit Airlines and American Airlines have canceled 729 flights and counting as of Monday afternoon as bad weather and “operational challenges” plague cities across the American South. According to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, a total of 275 Spirit flights have been canceled at the time …
MIAMI – Lilium is to collaborate with Azul (AD) to change high-speed regional transportation in the 100-million-strong Brazilian air passenger market. The firms want to negotiate the parameters for the construction of a co-branded network in Brazil, combining AD’s extensive experience in the Brazilian market and Lilium’s unique eVTOL aircraft platform. As part of the …
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MIAMI – Mr. Juan Carlos Salazar of Colombia officially assumed the office of ICAO Secretary General yesterday. He succeeds Dr. Fang Liu of China. The ICAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was created by governments in 1944 to support their diplomacy on international air transport matters. Nations have adopted over 12,000 …
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Boeing’s President Bill Allen (Left) and Joe Sutter (right) at the first flight of the 747. Colorised by Benoit Vienne That first flight lasted 75 minutes and, according to Sutter, proved that the 747 flew well, was stable and had light controls with well-balanced forces. “This is a flying arrow,” Wadell declared after the flight. …
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In the golden age of flying in-flight entertainment was very different from today. So as you contemplate a return to normal flying during the COVID-19 pandemic flash back to the 1950s and 1960s with us with many gorgeous images colorized by Benoit Vienne. During the 1950s and 60s in-flight entertainment or “IFE” as we know …
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