United Airlines will resume flights to Singapore in January for the first time since March 2020, when the pandemic began. The four-times weekly service from San Francisco will begin Jan. 5 in the San Francisco-to-Singapore direction and Jan. 9 from Singapore to…
American Airlines last weekend cut 19 domestic and eight international routes, 18 of which affect New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports, American confirmed on Monday. Several of the New York routes will be served by American partner JetBlue. “Over the…
The Biden administration is standing behind the aircraft emissions standards that were finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the final days of the Trump administration and defending those standards against a court challenge filed by environmental groups. The decision, which…
American Airlines and JetBlue have begun offering reciprocal benefits for loyalty program members. As of Oct. 13, qualifying members of both American’s AAdvantage and JetBlue’s TrueBlue programs receive such benefits as priority check-in, boarding, baggage handling and security lines when traveling on…
Airlines are sticking to their Covid-19 vaccine mandates for employees even after an executive order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott barring businesses in the state from enacting them. Abbott’s executive order, issued on Oct. 11, directed that no entity in the state…
Delta Air Lines expects that capacity for the last three months of the year will be approximately 80% of the 2019 level, a jump from the third quarter, when the carrier flew 71% of 2019 capacity. However, Delta doesn’t expect to substantially…
Fiji will reopen to vaccinated travelers from the U.S. beginning Dec. 1. The South Pacific nation, which has closed its borders to tourism throughout the pandemic, is making the move after achieving a vaccination rate of more than 80% of its eligible…
Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street program on Tuesday, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly explained that the mass of flight cancellations from Oct. 8 to 11 stemmed from air traffic control delays in Florida on Friday that were implemented by the…
Airline ticket transactions by U.S. travel agencies for the week that ended Oct. 10 were down 31.8% compared to 2019, the best performance relative to 2019 since mid-July, ARC data shows. However, the value of airline tickets sold was down 48.9%, a…
Southwest Airlines’ operational difficulties over the weekend were not caused by a pilot sickout, maintains the union that represents the carrier’s pilots. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) issued a statement on Saturday that sought to diffuse speculation that the Southwest cancellations…