Aspiring startup Northern Pacific Airways sees its sister airline Ravn Alaska as a key part of its plan to lure passengers to Anchorage as well as a candidate for expanding the group’s footprint elsewhere in the U.S., the company’s senior executive said. 

SAS Group’s new President and CEO Anko van der Werff says the carrier has to reach a lower cost structure to be able to sustain the new competition coming to its Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) base.

United Airlines pushed back against a proposal from the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) to reassign 16 peak-time slots at Newark Liberty International (EWR) to a LCC or ULCC, arguing that doing so would exacerbate congestion at the airport. 

A team of American Airlines pilots and safety executives is expanding a three-year-old program that tracks routine flight deck behavior and gleans insights designed to improve crew performance. 

United Airlines plans to operate its largest domestic schedule since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic this December, part of an effort to accommodate an expected surge in holiday travel. 

Airlines and manufacturers are urging industry players to be patient on the relatively gradual recovery in Asia-Pacific, and to prevent borders from going into a “start-stop-start” scenario, which in turn would be more detrimental for airline and supply chain operation.

TAAG Angola Airlines must undergo a major restructuring and reduce its workforce by a third to stay viable as demand remains in the doldrums, its CEO has indicated.

The new carrier has applied to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) for a foreign carrier permit and exemption.