UPDATE Oct 20 – 95 Percent of Spirit Airlines stockholders present or represented has voted in favor of the proposed merger agreement with JetBlue. That’s the outcome of the special meeting on October 19, at which 67 percent of Spirit common…
American Airlines joins the other US Big Two by reporting record-high revenues in Q3, outpacing 2019 levels by thirteen percent despite a 9.6 percent lower capacity. It is even the highest quarterly revenue in the history of the airline. American…
The announcement on October 19 that Tony Douglas will step down as CEO of Etihad Airways and take on a ‘consultancy role’ instead, is the strongest indication yet that Douglas will exit the Abu Dhabi carrier for good soon. Douglas has…
UPDATE – United Airlines expects that the strong recovery of air travel will overcome inflationary pressures to produce a very good final quarter of 2022, with the adjusted operating margin beating that of 2019 for the first time since the…
Correction – Rwandese carrier RwandAir will launch direct services between Kigali and London Heathrow from November 6. The direct service will replace the one with a stopover in Brussels, the airline said on October 17. RwandAir drops Brussels stopover in…
Before it has taken delivery of even the first aircraft, UK holiday airline Jet2 continues to grow its order for Airbus A320neo family aircraft. Jet2 announced on October 18 that it has ordered 35 A320neo’s, which are in addition to 63 A321neo’s…