Source: LATAM With the intention of accelerating efforts that generate the necessary conditions for a more sustainable commercial aviation, the CEO of LATAM Airlines Group, Roberto Alvo, announced the group's hopes to incorporate sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in its operation, thus favoring production generated in South America. This effort is part of the group's sustainability strategy, which aims to be a zero waste-to-landfill group by 2027, offset 50% of domestic emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. “South America has the potential to be a world leader in the production of sustainable fuels and thereby make a very significant contribution to climate action. For this to happen, public and private actors, including LATAM, need to collaborate, play their [...]

Source: JetBlue JetBlue confirmed it has submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors of Spirit to acquire Spirit for $33 per share in cash, implying a fully diluted equity value of $3.6 billion and providing full and certain value to Spirit shareholders. The proposal represents a premium of 52% to Spirit’s undisturbed share price on February 4, 20221, and a premium of 50% to Spirit’s closing share price on April 4, 20222. JetBlue firmly believes its proposal constitutes a “superior proposal” under Spirit’s merger agreement with Frontier and represents the most attractive opportunity for Spirit’s shareholders. The combination of the two airlines would position JetBlue as the most compelling national low-fare challenger to the four large dominant U.S. carriers by accelerating [...]

Source: JetBlue JetBlue New York’s Hometown Airline® and New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced that the company will be adding 5,000 jobs in New York City in 2022. JetBlue will also work with the city to create a new workforce partnership to connect more New Yorkers with high quality JetBlue jobs and to develop a strong pipeline for future careers at the airline. Mayor Adams joined JetBlue leaders today at a major hiring event to assist in filling many of these new positions. Today’s hiring event, held at JetBlue’s hangar at John F. KennedyInternational Airport (JFK), facilitated on the spot interviews and conditional hiring of diverse candidates for a variety of positions within the JetBlue operation based in New York [...]

Source: JetBlue JetBlue  announced it intends to expand the depth and breadth of its existing partnership with Qatar Airways to offer customers even more benefits when booking travel to and from international destinations on the global partner airline. This will include more codesharing in additional markets in the coming months, enhanced benefits for JetBlue TrueBlue® and Qatar Airways’ Privilege Club loyalty members, expanded marketing opportunities and refinements to flight schedules to create new, convenient connections across both carriers. Already, Qatar Airways is one of JetBlue’s top partners for connecting customers across the Americas to its global network, with traffic expected to grow further through new enhancements within the partnership. This new agreement will provide more options to travel between JetBlue’s [...]

Source: Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines has opened the flight attendant opportunity and is seeking to hire additional flight attendants. Since hiring and training ramped back up last year, Delta expects to have a total of 4,500 new flight attendants on the front line by the end of 2022. Another round of hiring will begin in the spring/summer, and 40 graduating classes are scheduled for this year – part of the company’s commitment to unparalleled customer service and emerging stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. "As we move our candidates through the hiring process faster, we expect to re-open this posting at a more frequent cadence,” said Jennifer Martin, Managing Director - IFS CX, Learning and Hiring. "We're excited to [...]

Source: LATAM LATAM Airlines Group S.A.  and its affiliates in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the United States made important progress today in its Chapter 11 proceeding in the United States, after the Court approved the adequacy of the Chapter 11 Disclosure Statement for LATAM. This resolution establishes that the documentation provided by LATAM in the process is sufficient to allow the group to commence solicitation of votes, during which it will seek approval of the Plan from creditors. The decision comes after LATAM first filed its Plan of Reorganization on November 26, 2021 (the “Plan”). In this way, it is expected that in the coming weeks LATAM will begin the process of requesting votes regarding the Reorganization Plan [...]

Source: LATAM LATAM Airlines Group announced that it will compensate the CO2 emissions of the first nine routes in Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia every Friday through its “Let’s Fly Neutral on Friday” program. Through this initiative, which is part of the group's sustainability strategy, LATAM will support conservation projects that prevent deforestation in strategic ecosystems in South America by offsetting CO2 emissions generated on routes including passenger and cargo flights. Emblematic passenger routes will be offset at a regional level, including Santiago - Chiloé, Galapagos - Guayaquil, Arequipa - Cusco, Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo. LATAM will also offset cargo flights including Iquitos - Lima, Guayaquil - Baltra Island, Brasília - Belém and Bogotá - Miami routes. [...]