DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg has pledged to work toward requiring airlines to allow passengers to stay in their personal wheelchairs when they fly. “We know that this won’t happen overnight, but it is a goal that we have to work to fulfill,”…
Delta will launch nonstop service from Atlanta to Cape Town, South Africa, and from Los Angeles to Tahiti on Dec. 17. Delta will fly three-times weekly service between Atlanta and Cape Town with a three-class Airbus A350 and will be the lone…
Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan said that the airline’s new policy of never-expiring flight credits will result in a one-time revenue hit of between $250 million and $300 million in the third quarter. But, speaking during the airline’s Q2 earnings call, Jordan…
For the past three-and-a-half months, as he championed Spirit’s merger deal with Frontier, Spirit CEO Ted Christie argued that a merger with JetBlue would have little chance of receiving a green light from antitrust regulators at the Justice Department. But on Thursday…
Spirit and Frontier have canceled their merger agreement, as the deal failed to gain the support of Spirit’s shareholders. The move, announced by Spirit Airlines at a special shareholders meeting on Wednesday, came as Spirit aborted the proxy vote that had been…
Legislation sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) would raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial airline pilots from 65 to 67. The Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act, which Graham and Roy plan to introduce in the coming…
American Airlines recorded the highest quarterly revenue in its history during the second quarter, propelling the carrier to a return to profitability for the first time since the start of the pandemic. “Travel is coming back in record numbers, which is fantastic,”…
Canada has brought back mandatory random Covid-19 testing for fully vaccinated travelers entering Canada at the country’s four major airports: Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto. Canada’s government had paused random testing of arriving airline passengers on June 11 but resumed the policy…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has tentatively allocated three weekly frequencies each to Delta and United for proposed flights to Cape Town, South Africa, according to a DOT order issued Friday. Delta had wanted to add three weekly flights between Atlanta and…
Finnair has partnered with travel content aggregator TPConnects to power a booking portal that distributes the carrier’s NDC content to travel agencies. The portal, the Finnair Agency Sales Tool, gives agents access to NDC content, including ancillaries and personalized exclusive offers via…