Source: Porter Airlines Porter Airlines and Alaska Airlines have announced a broad partnership, taking advantage of Porter’s strong presence across Eastern Canada and Alaska’s well-established U.S. West Coast links to provide passengers more flight options and better service from coast to coast. The new interline agreement means that from today, passengers can purchase combined Porter-Alaska itineraries directly from flyporter.com or via third-party agencies. Alaska’s Mileage Plan members can start earning points on Porter flights booked via Alaska Airlines from January, and later in 2024 both VIPorter and Mileage Plan members will earn miles in their respective loyalty programs no matter where they book their flights. Finally, next year will bring even more benefits with access to mileage redemptions with enhanced [...]

Fuente: Avianca Este aumento en la oferta representa un 39% más de disponibilidad de sillas en Colombia, con respecto al año anterior. Durante el último semestre de 2023, Avianca se ha preparado para atender la temporada de fin de año, con la incorporación de 16 aviones y la contratación de 1.200 A cierre de fin de año, la línea aérea espera transportar a 32.5 millones de pasajeros. Avianca reconoce y aplaude las medidas adoptadas por la Aeronáutica Civil para garantizar la correcta operación del Aeropuerto El Dorado y la estabilidad de toda la industria. Durante la temporada de fin de año, los clientes de Avianca tendrán más de 6,6 millones de sillas, lo cual representa un 39% más de oferta [...]

Source: Flybondi Flybondi is the first and only airline in the world to give passengers the freedom to do whatever they want with their tickets Resale is the new option with the 3.0 Ticket In simple steps, users will be able to access the first global marketplace where they can buy and sell their tickets With this new benefit, users will have more flexibility when traveling Flybondi introduces a unique function in the aviation industry: for the first time in history, all its domestic tickets can be resold between passengers. Argentina's first low-cost airline announces the new resale benefit for its 3.0 Ticket, which is in addition to the possibility to change the name on the ticket, transfer the ticket, [...]

Source: Viva Aerobus Viva Aerobus announced its November 2023 preliminary traffic results. Viva Aerobus’ passenger traffic increased 13.0% compared to November 2022, reaching 2.2 million passengers, driven by an increase of 14.1% and 3.2% in domestic and international traffic, respectively. Load factors reached 86.8% compared to 85.9% in 2022, with a load factor mix of 88.1% and 80.2% in domestic and international, respectively. Viva Aerobus grew its total capacity in available seat miles (ASMs) by 12.0% compared to November 2022, reflecting an increase of 13.5% and 4.8% in domestic and international, respectively. “November traffic was robust, with passenger demand outpacing capacity growth, allowing us to maintain a healthy load factor of 86.8%. As we close the year, demand trends remain [...]

Source: Volaris Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR) ("Volaris" or "the Company"), the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) serving Mexico, the United States, Central, and South America, reports its November 2023 preliminary traffic results. In November 2023, Volaris' ASM capacity decreased by 2.2% year-over-year, while RPMs decreased by 0.2%; the result was a load factor increase of 1.8 pp YoY to 89.8%. Volaris transported 2.7 million passengers during the month, a 0.9% decrease compared to November 2022. Mexican domestic RPMs decreased by 7.9%, while international RPMs increased by 17.6%. Enrique Beltranena, Volaris' President and CEO said: "In response to reduced Pratt & Whitney ("P&W") engine availability in November, we reduced domestic ASMs and redeployed capacity to the US market by [...]