Dominican Republic-based ULCC Flycana hopes to launch operations during the 2020 fourth quarter and has ambitions to more than double the destinations it serves from the Dominican Republic by its fifth year of operations. 

Korean Air (KAL) is taking steps to improve its financial position, which include selling an idle property and a development company. 

The Chinese Lunar New Year is traditionally one of the strongest periods for Chinese airlines, where millions of Chinese citizens travel across the country to return home for the festive season. 

United Airlines has purchased a Phoenix-area flight training academy to feed into its pilot pipeline, part of the carrier’s efforts to hire more than 10,000 new pilots by 2029.

Panasonic Avionics Corp. said Feb. 5 that it will supply the inflight entertainment (IFE) system for Kuwait Airways’ new Airbus A330-800neo widebodies.

Cathay Pacific Airways has asked its 27,000 employees to take three weeks of unpaid leave to “preserve cash,” as the Hong Kong-based carrier deals with the widespread Wuhan coronavirus in China, following seven months of anti-government protests that have severely affected the airline. 

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Ryanair advertisements, claiming it is Europe’s greenest airline, are misleading and banned the Irish LCC from repeating the ads in their current form. 

VIENNA—German leisure airline TUI fly announced the first long-haul destinations for its new Boeing 787-8 fleet, which will begin services from Dusseldorf, Germany to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic on Nov. 4.