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EasyJet Plots Strong Summer Despite Continued Losses
EasyJet is predicting summer demand almost at 2019 levels, but the outlook is tempered by continued losses during the first three months of this year when the carrier grappled with the Omicron variant and a sharp drop in demand. Capacity...
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JetBlue, Alaska Airlines Cut Flights as Summer Staffing Concerns Loom
JetBlue Airways is the latest airlines to pull back planned schedules as the combination of staffing issues and bad weather limit its ability to recover from operational disruptions. The New York-based carrier told staff on April 8 that it would...
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Flight Attendants Back Bill to Create National List of Unruly Flyers
The federal mask mandate on flights may be ending soon, but that won’t eliminate the threat of unruly passengers disrupting flights, the head of the largest U.S. flight attendants union warns. “I don’t view the two as related,” Association of...
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Soaring U.S. Airline Traffic Has Tightly Scheduled Pilots Frazzled
The abrupt post-pandemic return to busy flying schedules has left many airline pilots feeling stressed. Their frustration — combined with ongoing contract talks at most major airlines — has led to continuing pilot demonstrations at major airports across the U.S....
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American Airlines Restarts Philadelphia Regional Routes With Landline Buses
American Airlines is the latest carrier to contract Landline for connecting "flights" operated with buses. The move comes as U.S. airlines face the concurrent challenges from a pilot shortage primarily hitting regional operators and elevated fuel prices that together have...
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JetBlue Shakes Up Airline Status Quo With Audacious Spirit Bid
JetBlue Airways pulled off a rare surprise in the airline industry when it unveiled a $3.6 billion proposal to acquire Spirit Airlines on April 5. The combination would create a fifth-largest U.S. carrier and supplant the proposed $2.9 billion merger...
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Airbus Can Meet Production Targets Despite Russian Titanium Constraints
Airbus' plans to aggressively ramp up aircraft production are on track, despite new constraints on the global supply of Russian titanium, a critical metal for aerospace manufacturing. The European airframer quashed rumors that its A320 and A350 production increases will...
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European Airlines Want EU Support to Help Meet Sustainability Goals
European airlines are mounting a unified front against the European Commission's proposed climate legislation that aims to reduce carbon emissions by 55 percent from 1990 levels by the end of the decade. “Airlines want to decarbonize. We have to decarbonize....
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Ryanair, EasyJet Make Progress on Pandemic Recovery Expansion
Ryanair and EasyJet are targeting markets where competitors have made deep cuts to grow as Europe emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic. Topping that list are destinations in southern Europe. Speaking at the Airlines for Europe Aviation Summit on March 31,...
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India’s Jet Airways Ready for Second Act, Investors Say
The wait for India’s Jet Airways to hit the runway might get a little longer. But the new promoters of the airline maintain the restart activities are “progressing well.” While the Jalan-Kalrock Consortium, which won the right to restructure Jet...
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Aircraft Lessor AerCap Files Claims for $3.5 Billion in Assets Seized by Russia
AerCap had hoped to take something of a victory lap in the fourth quarter of 2021 as it closed its $30 billion acquisition of GECAS to become far and away the world's largest aircraft lessor. But when the war in...
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2 Scrappy Airline Startups Are Sparking a Unlikely War Between New Haven and Hartford Airports
Startups Breeze Airways and Avelo Airlines are competitors, shaped by small fleets and point-to-point schedules. That competition is now sparking a battle in the relatively sleepy aviation state of Connecticut, where two airports just 56 miles apart, Hartford and New...
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