Source: Air France Saphir is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year! In 2001, Air France was the first airline in the world to offer a service especially for disabled passengers.  With Saphir, customers benefit from assistance before and after their flight, and throughout their trip, such as help with reservations, issuing tickets and setting up assistance in collaboration with the exceptional transport service (TEX). The service is available in France as well as in 19 other countries.  Assistance requests must be made when booking a flight, at least 48 hours before departure, directly on the Air France website or via the dedicated Saphir hotline. Around fifty sales advisors at the customer relations centre are trained in the approach to disability by specialist doctors, [...]

Source: Air Canada New seasonal service to Vancouver and Calgary begins May 2022 Air Canada continues to increase its presence in Quebec City Air Canada is pleased to announce today two new seasonal services departing from Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City: Vancouver and Calgary. Flights to Vancouver will start on May 20, 2022, with up to three flights a week and service to Calgary will debut on May 21, 2022, offering up to four weekly flights. These new routes will be operated by Air Canada Rouge on an Airbus A319, featuring Premium Rouge and Economy services, product enhancements including upgraded streaming entertainment and options to purchase high-speed wi-fi. Services to Vancouver and Calgary are in addition to two [...]

Source: Delta Air Lines The airline’s capacity increase also restores nonstops to the top 40 U.S. markets from JFK and LGA. Adding over 100 daily flights in NYC this fall – a 25% capacity increase compared to summer 2021 Restoring nonstop service to NYC’s top 40 domestic markets JFK and LGA’s largest carrier operating over 400 daily flights to 92 destinations After a summer of recovery, Delta isn’t slowing down in bringing back more flights and destinations for New York’s business and leisure travelers alike. By November, Delta will add more than 100 total daily departures from John F. Kennedy Airport and LaGuardia Airport compared to the airline’s summer 2021 schedule – translating to approximately 8,000 additional seats each day to [...]

Source: American Airlines Download PDF (English)PDF Format (opens in new window) American Airlines Group Inc., today reported its third-quarter 2021 financial results, including: Third-quarter net profit of $169 million, or $0.25 per diluted share. Excluding net special items1, third-quarter net loss of $641 million, or ($0.99) per share. American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) today reported its third-quarter 2021 financial results, including: Third-quarter net profit of $169 million, or $0.25 per diluted share. Excluding net special items1, third-quarter net loss of $641 million, or ($0.99) per share. Third-quarter revenue of $9.0 billion, up 20% sequentially from the second quarter of 2021. Ended the third quarter with approximately $18 billion of total available liquidity, after prepayment of $950 million spare parts term [...]

Source: Air Canada Air Canada to offer Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) to its corporate customers; carbon offsets also available for purchase Deloitte Canada is the first participant to join program Airline acting on its long-term goal to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 Air Canada announced today that Deloitte Canada will be the first corporate customer to participate in its new LEAVE LESS Travel Program, which offers corporate customers effective options to offset or reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to business travel and reduce their carbon footprint. Corporate customers can now purchase Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), carbon offsets or a combination of both. The LEAVE LESS Travel Program is one of the many comprehensive initiatives being implemented as part [...]

Source: United United Airlines (UAL) today announced third-quarter 2021 financial results. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 Delta variant in the third quarter, the company remains confidently on track to achieve the range of longer term financial targets laid out as part of its United Next plan earlier this summer, and to reduce CASM-ex1 below 2019 levels next year. Citing the rebound in premium leisure travel, re-opening of European borders next month, continued recovery of business travel and early indications of loosening travel restrictions in key Pacific markets, United also announced plans to increase international capacity by 10% in 2022 - while keeping domestic capacity flat to 2019. The plan will capitalize on already improving international margins and United's ideally situated [...]

Source: Alaska Airlines We’re proud of our ambitious goals to fly greener but know we can’t do it alone. This year, we set our most audacious environmental goal ever – to be Net Carbon Zero by 2040. But as a company that burns 750 million gallons of fuel every year, it’s going to take more than just recycling aluminum cans  to make a difference. We must continue to pursue pioneering technologies that will change the industry for the better. That’s where Alaska Star Ventures comes in, our new LLC, that will help us discover, partner with, and enable technologies to help us take real and meaningful steps toward reaching net- zero carbon emissions within the next decade or sooner. “To live our purpose and create an airline people love, we must operate every day in a way that cares for [...]

Source: Hawaiian Airlines Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. (the “Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”) (Nasdaq: HA), announced today amendments to its previously announced (i) offers to purchase for cash (collectively, the “Tender Offers” and each, a “Tender Offer”) any and all of its 7.375% Series 2020-1A Pass Through Certificates due 2027 (the “Class A Certificates”) and 11.250% Series 2020-1B Pass Through Certificates due 2025 (the “Class B Certificates” and, together with the Class A Certificates, the “Certificates”) and (ii) Consent Solicitations (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), in each case set forth in the Company’s Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated September 23, 2021 (the “Offer to Purchase”). The Company is amending the Offer [...]