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Tropic Air increases flights between San Pedro and Belize City

Source: Tropic Air Starting this month and due to increasing demand, Tropic Air, Belize's flag air carrier has added flights between San Pedro and Belize City Municipal airport. This new schedule offers more choices and increased flexibility for the airline's time sensitive customers and is in addition to a robust schedule between Belize International Airport and the island. The new schedule between San Pedro and Municipal is as follows: To Book Get your tickets at any station, at tropicair.com, via reservations@tropicair.com, or via the chat feature on our website. Our reservations / information team is available daily from 6AM to 9PM at (+501) 226-2626 or (+501) 226-2012 or via WhatsApp at (+501) 622-5857. For Cargo questions, please contact (+501) 223-4851 [...]

2022-06-08T16:16:35+03:00June 8th, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

JetBlue Submits Improved Superior Proposal to Acquire Spirit

Source: JetBlue JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) today announced that it has submitted an improved proposal to the Board of Directors of Spirit (NYSE: SAVE) to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Spirit. JetBlue’s proposal is a further update to its previous proposals, and offers Spirit stockholders demonstrably superior value, more regulatory protections, and the prepayment of a portion of cash consideration: Enhanced reverse break-up fee: JetBlue would provide a $350 million ($3.20 per Spirit share1) reverse break-up fee, payable to Spirit in the unlikely event the transaction is not consummated for antitrust reasons. This represents an increase of $150 million, or $1.37 per Spirit share, to the reverse break-up fee JetBlue has previously offered to pay, and is $100 million greater than the amount being offer by Frontier. [...]

2022-06-07T16:40:27+03:00June 7th, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

American Airlines and Qatar Airways Expand Strategic Alliance

Source: American Airlines American Airlines and Qatar Airways are expanding their strategic alliance with a new codeshare agreement, enabling American’s customers to book travel on Qatar Airways flights via Doha to and from 16 new countries. Pending any necessary government codeshare approvals, travelers will be able to book travel beyond Qatar to their final destinations in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This expanded codeshare comes as American launches new service on June 4 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Doha’s Hamad International Airport (DOH), recently voted World’s Best Airport. The new service establishes American as the only U.S. carrier to serve the Gulf [...]

2022-06-03T20:13:34+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

Aeromexico and El Palacio de Hierro celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabethh II at 30 thousand feet

Source: Aeromexico Passengers on the flight received gifts from the El Gourmet Palacio, which included exclusive British brands from El Palacio de Hierro The airline offers more than 15,000 monthly seats on the Mexico City- London route Aeromexico and El Palacio de Hierro commemorated the 70 years on the throne of the first monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to celebrate the “Platinum Jubilee” on the Mexico City – London route. The celebration took place on flight AM007 operated with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most modern, comfortable, efficient, and environmentally friendly aircraft. As part of the celebration, on May 25, the company and its allies prepared a unique experience for customers who traveled from Mexico City to [...]

2022-06-03T14:14:37+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

Air Lease Corporation Announces Lease Placement of Three New Airbus A321neo Aircraft with LATAM Airlines

Source: Air Lease Corporation Air Lease Corporation announced long-term lease placements for three new Airbus A321neo aircraft with LATAM Airlines.  The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered to LATAM in the summer and fall of 2023 from ALC’s orderbook with Airbus. “We are pleased to announce the long-term leases of three new Airbus A321neo aircraft to the largest airline in South America: LATAM AirlinesThis is another important step in LATAM’s fleet modernization and network strategy optimization,” said Steven Udvar-Házy, Executive Chairman of Air Lease Corporation.

2022-06-03T17:53:30+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News, SUPPLIERS|

United Expands World’s Largest Flight Training Center to Prepare for Pilot Hiring Surge

Source: United Airlines New, four-story building on 23-acre campus will house more flight simulators, classrooms and offices as airline seeks to hire 10,000 new pilots by 2030 United pilots cycle through the Denver facility every nine months to stay certified for one of the best careers in the world United Captains can earn more than $350,000 annually – the airline has one of the largest global networks in the world and flies more widebody aircraft than any other North American carrier United Airlines today announced it is expanding its Flight Training Center, already the largest facility of its kind in the world, as the airline seeks to hire an additional 10,000 pilots by 2030. The airline will add a new [...]

2022-06-03T17:35:07+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

British Airways expands US route network in time for summer

Source: British Airways British Airways to fly from 26 US cities direct to London this summer with Portland, Oregon route launching June 3, the only direct London route for PDX Pittsburgh also relaunches today and San Jose, California on June 13 A daytime flight launches from Newark to London, supporting business travel returning A380 sees a return to North America airports to accommodate increasing demand British Airways is ramping up its US route network this summer, taking its direct US routes to London to 26.  Tomorrow Portland, Oregon becomes the newest destination on the British Airways route map, providing the city’s only direct route to the UK. A warm local welcome is anticipated as inaugural flight BA0267 touches down at [...]

2022-06-03T16:10:43+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

First Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 gets ready for delivery

Source: Lufthansa The first intercontinental scheduled destination of the Lufthansa “Dreamliner” will be Toronto In total, the Lufthansa Group has ordered 32 Boeing “Dreamliner” with delivery between 2022 and 2027 The Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 with the registration D-ABPA and the future name "Berlin" will be delivered to Lufthansa following certification by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) this summer. The ultra-modern long-haul “Dreamliner” aircraft will consume an average of around 2.5 liters of kerosene per passenger and 100 kilometers flown. That is around 25 percent less than their predecessor aircraft. The CO2 emissions are also improved accordingly. The Boeing 787-9 "Berlin" will have an improved cabin product - including direct aisle access for all guests in Business Class. Following several weeks [...]

2022-06-03T16:29:25+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

JetBlue Comments on Frontier-Spirit Announcement

Source: JetBlue JetBlue today issued the following statement regarding the amended Frontier-Spirit merger agreement: The Spirit Board of Directors’ conflicts continue to guide their every move. Today’s announcement demonstrates why, in their shareholders’ best interest, they should negotiate with us in good faith – which, yet again, they have failed to do. Spirit’s Board only went back to Frontier under pressure, when it became increasingly clear their shareholders would decisively reject the Spirit Board’s flawed process and Frontier’s inferior transaction. The addition of a reverse termination fee in the face of a likely defeat is simply an acknowledgement that the regulatory profiles and timelines of both deals are indeed similar. Spirit had already admitted that its own prior unreasonably optimistic [...]

2022-06-03T16:00:03+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|

Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines Announce Amended Merger Agreement

Soource Spirit Airlines Spirit Airlines, Inc. ("Spirit" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAVE) and Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. ("Frontier") (NASDAQ: ULCC), parent company of Frontier Airlines, Inc., today (2/6) announced an amendment to their previously announced merger agreement dated February 5, 2022. Under the terms of the amended merger agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, Frontier would pay a reverse termination fee of $250 million, or $2.23 per share, to Spirit in the unlikely event the combination is not consummated for antitrust reasons. William A. Franke, the Chair of Frontier's Board of Directors and the managing partner of Indigo Partners, Frontier's majority shareholder, said, "We continue to believe in the strategic rationale of [...]

2022-06-03T15:58:23+03:00June 3rd, 2022|AIRLINES, News|