NEW DELHI (AP) — Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, has regained ownership of Air India, the country’s debt-laden national carrier. Tata pioneered commercial aviation in India when it launched the airline in 1932. It was taken over by the government…
JetBlue Airways’ corporate travel was about 50% recovered compared with 2019 levels prior to the Covid-19 omicron wave, JetBlue president and COO Joanna Geraghty said Thursday during the carrier’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “We believe corporate travel will recover in a nonlinear path,…
United Airlines has opened Aviate Academy in Phoenix, the first flight-training school to be operated by a mainline U.S. airline. Only one other commercial U.S. carrier, regional airline Republic Airways, operates its own flight-training school. Aviate’s first class is 80% women and/or…
Amadeus has reached a new distribution agreement with Emirates that enables it to bypass the carrier’s global distribution system surcharge and integrate New Distribution Capability content into the Amadeus Travel Platform. The agreement makes Emirates content available to Amadeus platform users free…
American Airlines and British Airways on Tuesday announced additional details about their colocation at Terminal 8 at New York’s JFK Airport, planned for Dec. 1, 2022. The roughly $400 million redevelopment will include five new widebody gates, four new widebody hardstand parking…
Concerns over pilot shortages. Cancellations due to Covid. New 5G transmissions. Now there’s another challenge that could force more headaches for aviation: A shortage of maintenance workers, which has repair shops struggling to fill open positions. “If we don’t have enough technicians,…
Outgoing American Airlines CEO Doug Parker says he is confident that the 5G dispute between the aviation industry and telecom corporations AT&T and Verizon has been resolved. “It has taken a long time to get to the right spot, but we’re definitely…
A new legal petition is asking that the FAA be required to act on a 2018 congressional mandate that it set minimum standards for commercial airplane seat widths and the space between airplane rows. In a Jan. 12 petition to the U.S….
Northern Pacific Airways has unveiled its first livery. The Alaska-based startup, which hopes to begin flying by late summer, will take to the skies with mostly black-and-white painted Boeing 757s that are designed to evoke the natural beauty of the Alaskan wilderness. …
The Department of Transportation has approved start-up Norse Atlantic Airways’ application for a foreign air carrier permit, clearing the way for the carrier to begin transatlantic operations. Norse Atlantic expects to begin flying between Oslo and the U.S. sometime this spring. CEO…