Source: Air Canada Program celebrates 20 years of spotlighting Canadian culinary talent Air Canada and presenting partner OpenTable, the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations and part of Booking Holdings, Inc., are proud to reveal Canada's Best New Restaurants 2021, with culinary talent as inclusive and diverse as the Canadian community. This year marks a milestone, as Air Canada celebrates the 20th anniversary of launching the pre-eminent list of top restaurants across the country. Through incredible commitment and quality, Canada's culinary talent has preserved a healthy and thriving restaurant scene across the country. This year's list features the best in fine dining, bar dining, takeout, farm-to-table and other categories, while also highlighting producers of the year and changemakers in [...]

Source: Air France From November 2021 to February 2022, Air France is teaming up with talented French Michelin-starred chefs Régis Marcon and Mathieu Viannay to sign its La Première and Business long-haul menus. With vegetarian dishes, meat, poultry and fish, the chefs have created refined dishes for the airline's customers to enjoy over the coming months on departure from Paris. With these exceptional new dishes, Air France continues to promote French fine dining throughout the world. 3-star gastronomy in the La Première cabin In the airline's exclusive La Première cabin, three Michelin-starred chef Régis Marcon has come up with six new tasty dishes. Accompanied by the expertise of the Servair Culinary Studio, of which he is president, Régis Marcon revisits [...]

Source: British Airways British Airways is continuing with the roll out of its newest business class seat, Club Suite, as it continues to retrofit the seat across its Boeing 777 fleet, with the roll out expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The airline already has retrofitted a number of its Boeing 777 aircraft with the latest seat and will be working with Collins Aerospace to ensure the rest of the airline’s 777 aircraft are fitted with the new cabin. The airline's sophisticated Club Suite was first rolled out in July 2019 on the first A350 and since then has been installed on the Boeing 787-10 aircraft. The seat offers direct-aisle access, a suite door for greater privacy and luxurious flat-bed [...]

Source: Delta Air Lines Delta is matching member-donated miles through the Delta SkyWish Program to Fisher House Foundation’s Hero Miles program and Luke's W​ings for the entire month of November. In honor of Veterans Day, Delta is supporting veterans, active service members, and their families by matching member-donated miles through the Delta SkyWish Program to Fisher House Foundation’s Hero Miles program and Luke's W​ings for the entire month of November. For the seventh year, Delta will match donations up to an aggregate total of 10 million miles donated to these two organizations through SkyWish, the charitable arm of the SkyMiles Program. SkyMiles Members can donate miles to more than 30 charitable organizations worldwide through SkyWish. Learn more about SkyWish and how to donate miles to these two organizations [...]

Source: Frontier Airlines America's Greenest Airline Offers 81 Nonstop MCO Routes  Low-fare carrier Frontier Airlines (NASDAQ: ULCC) this week launches 13 new nonstop routes from Orlando International Airport (MCO), including service to five international destinations: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico and The Bahamas. The new service expands Frontier's Orlando route map to 81 nonstop destinations, the most of any airline at MCO and, to celebrate the new service, Frontier is offering introductory fares starting at $19*. "We're excited to celebrate another remarkable expansion of service at Orlando International Airport with 13 new routes launching this month, along with three more coming in December," said Daniel Shurz, senior vice president of commercial, Frontier Airlines. "We're proud to offer the most [...]

Source: Emirates Emirates and TAP Air Portugal are further expanding their existing codeshare arrangement by adding 23 more destinations to the partnership from 2 November. This brings the total number of destinations where customers can enjoy seamless connectivity to over 90 points. TAP Air Portugal will place its code on popular Emirates flights to four additional Asian destinations – Hanoi and three Japanese gateways – Narita, Osaka and Haneda, subject to government approval. Emirates will place its code on TAP Air Portugal operated flights to 19 additional destinations via Lisbon. They include Belem, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Maceio, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Praia, Sal Island, Sao Vicente, Conakry, Ponta Delgada, Porto Santo, Terceira and [...]

Source: Hawaiian Airlines Hawaiian Airlines today appointed Alanna James as its managing director of sustainability initiatives. In this new role, James will lead Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) programs across Hawai‘i’s largest and longest-serving airline, overseeing its goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, advancement of diversity and inclusion efforts, and other sustainability initiatives. “Alanna’s broad understanding of our operations and her strategic approach will allow us to accelerate our growing portfolio of ESG projects to continue making us a more sustainable airline,” said Avi Mannis, senior vice president for marketing at Hawaiian Airlines. James has been Hawaiian’s managing director of investor relations since mid-2019. Since joining the airline in 2011, she has held positions in strategy and transformation, [...]

Source: Air Canada Airline re-commits support for three additional years Air Canada today announced the opening of the application process for the third annual Captain Judy Cameron Scholarship, established in honour of the airline's first female pilot to help the next generation of women follow in her trailblazing footsteps. The scholarship is awarded in conjunction with the Northern Lights Aero Foundation. Air Canada also announced it will support this important initiative for three more years. "As the aviation industry continues rebuilding, we remain committed to fostering the next generation of young women pursuing aviation dreams in non-traditional careers. Over the past two years, the Captain Judy Cameron scholarship has helped seven talented and bright young women follow their dreams in our industry and we look forward [...]

Source: Air Canada Air Canada today reported third quarter 2021 financial results. Operating revenues of $2.103 billion, representing almost three times the operating revenues of $757 million in the third quarter of 2020 Negative EBITDA(1) (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), excluding special items, of $67 million compared to negative EBITDA (excluding special items) of $554 million in the same quarter of 2020 Operating loss of $364 million, compared to an operating loss of $785 million in the third quarter of 2020 Net cash flow(1) of $153 million, approximately $520 million higher than the midpoint of the net cash burn guidance provided for the quarter Record cargo revenues, surpassing the billion-dollar mark year-to-date Unrestricted liquidity of about $14.4 billion [...]

Source: Southwest Rapid Rewards Business celebrates companies who fly Southwest, offering the company and their travelers the opportunity to earn Rapid Rewards points; Companies can receive 25,000 Rapid Rewards Business points with only two round trips* Southwest Airlines Co. is making business travel more rewarding by launching Rapid Rewards® Business, giving businesses the ability to earn Rapid Rewards points as their travelers return to the sky. By joining Rapid Rewards Business, companies earn Rapid Rewards points that can be applied toward travel on the company's behalf, while travelers who are Rapid Rewards Members also earn Rapid Rewards points in their personal accounts. To celebrate the launch of Rapid Rewards Business, Southwest Airlines® is offering a special promotion awarding 25,000 Rapid [...]