Copa Airlines Plans Panama City-Brasilia Service from June

Panama’s Copa Airlines will begin nonstop service four times a week between Panama City and Brazil’s capital Brasilia on June 18. Brasilia will be Copa Airlines’ sixth Brazilian destination and its 56th destination overall. “Copa Airlines’ new nonstop Brasilia service demonstrates our commitment to establishing more routes to this important Latin American country and to continue uniting […]

Review: Icelandair’s Saga Business Class

Back in May 1972, I took my first trip to Europe, flying from New York JFK on Icelandic Airlines. I was bound for Luxembourg’s Findel International Airport (IATA code LUX), where all of Icelandic’s Europe-bound fights landed. Most of the passengers were, like me, budget-minded young backpackers. Well before reaching Luxembourg, my flight refueled at Keflavik […]

Inside American Airlines’ First Airbus A319

I can’t say I have experienced the in-flight service in one of American Airlines’ new Airbus A319s: Until September 16 no revenue passenger had, because the A319 didn’t enter service with American until then. But I have been onboard the airline’s first Airbus A319 to see and experience the brand-new interior American has designed for its latest […]

Xtra Airways to Fly from Four U.S. Cities to Grand Bahama for Bahamasair

Bahamasair is launching non-stop service on May 1 between Grand Bahama Island and Richmond in Virginia, Louisville in Kentucky, Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina and Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Maryland. The flights to Grand Bahama International Airport (IATA code FPO) will be operated for Bahamasair by U.S. charter and supplemental carrier Xtra Airways with Boeing 737-400s, each configured […]

Alaska Air and Horizon Air to Move to Terminal 6 at LAX

Alaska Airlines has reached agreement with Los Angeles World Airports to move from its existing location at Los Angeles International Airport’s Terminal 3 to Terminal 6. According to Alaska Airlines, the decision will pave the way for a major renovation of Terminal 6 to feature the carrier’s ‘Airport of the Future’ check-in process and modernized gate […]

United Re-Brands Premium-Class Cabins and Upgrades In-Flight Food and Amenities

United Airlines is upgrading its premium-cabin services to offer customers new food and beverage options, additional choices in in-flight entertainment, and – on long-haul international flights – new amenity kits, pillows and blankets. The United Continental Holdings, Inc. subsidiary is also re-branding its international, long-haul, premium-cabin services. United Airlines is introducing United Global First, its new […]

Review: Airberlin Business Class

By David Armstrong It takes 11 hours to fly nonstop from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Berlin’s Tegel Airport, and about 11 and a half hours to return to LAX against prevailing winds. That’s a long time to be airborne, so of course being comfortable counts. Until it completes taking delivery of 18 Boeing […]

Southwest to Introduce New ‘Evolve’ Cabin Interior Design

Southwest Airlines is introducing a new cabin interior to enhance customer comfort, improve fleet efficiency, and give back to the environment. Named ‘Evolve: The New Southwest Interior’, the Southwest Airlines cabin update makes use of durable and environmentally responsible products to reduce waste and create weight savings on board the aircraft, while (according to the airline) enhancing […]

Air China to Offer Shanghai-Barcelona Non-Stop Service

Air China will launch three-times-weekly non-stop service between Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and Barcelona’s El Prat International Airport on May 5. Its new non-stop service from Shanghai will be the second route operated by Star Alliance member Air China to Barcelona, the capital of the Spanish region of Catalonia. On May 5, 2014, Air China […]

Maun to Become Ethiopian’s Second Botswana Destination

Ethiopian Airlines Group, one of the fastest-growing global airline brands and Africa’s largest airline, would like to announce that it will launch a thrice weekly service between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Maun, Botswana as of June 10, 2024. Maun will be Ethiopian’s second destination in Botswana after Gaborone, which has been served since 2016. The […]

Southwest to Add Five More New Destinations from St. Louis in May

Southwest Airlines is adding nine new daily flights to five new destinations from Lambert St. Louis International Airport (STL) next spring. The new flights are expected to begin by May 2010 and will be open for sale this December. “Our employees saw opportunity and worked vigorously to incorporate additional capacity in the St. Louis market,” […]

Ethiopian Airlines Begins Service to Oman’s Capital Muscat

Increasing its presence in the Middle East, Ethiopian Airlines has begun three-times-weekly services linking Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa with Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. Oman, located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, is a popular Middle East tourism destination. The country boasts a wide variety of beaches along its 1,700-kilometer […]

Delta to Invest $1 Billion in Customer Experience and Fleet Efficiency

Delta Air Lines says it will invest $1 billion, or about $300 million per year, through mid-2013 to improve customer experience in the air and on the ground ― and also to improve the fuel efficiency of more than 170 aircraft in its fleet. The airline says its capital investment will improve the consistency and […]

Continental to Begin Serving Hilo in Hawaii in June 2011

Continental Airlines is launching daily nonstop service to Hilo, Hawaii, from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and once-weekly service to Hilo from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on June 9, 2011. The new flights will complement Continental’s and United’s extensive existing service to Hawaii, according to United Continental Holdings, parent of the two gradually merging […]

Vision Airlines Adds Five New Cities from Northwest Florida Regional Airport

Vision Airlines is adding five new non-stop and one-stop destinations from Northwest Florida Regional Airport (VPS) as the low-cost carrier continues its rapid build-up of service to its biggest scheduled-service focus city. On June 1, Vision Airlines will begin offering scheduled services to VPS from Fort Lauderdale in Florida; Lafayette, Louisiana; Las Vegas (on a one-stop basis […]