Source: American Airlines Airline testing new technology to help customers make connecting flights Record summer schedule across hub airports means more flight options and more connections enabled With a continued focus on making travel more seamless and enjoyable for its customers, American Airlines and its more than 130,000 team members look forward to a safe, reliable and successful summer travel season. Between May 16 and Sept. 2, American will operate more than 715,000 flights. “American is once again ready for the summer travel season thanks to the more than 130,000 American team members who make our airline safely move every day,” said David Seymour, American’s Chief Operating Officer. “We’re set to operate the largest schedules ever at many of our [...]

Source: British Airways Cutting-edge technology introduced as part of British Airways’ £7bn transformation investment programme has seen the airline boost its operational performance to record levels. The airline’s Chairman and CEO, Sean Doyle, told the Future Travel Experience World Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh that AI, forecasting, optimisation and machine learning have transformed the airline’s operational performance and become an integral part of getting customers to where they need to be with minimal delay to their travel plans. Every part of British Airways now uses this latest technology, which has significantly increased the number of flights departing on time or ahead of their scheduled take-off times. The airline has invested £100m in improving operational resilience and the first quarter of 2025 [...]

Source: American Airlines American Airlines is making it easier than ever to travel by offering more than one million Main Cabin seats on domestic flights (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) redeemable at just 5,000 AAdvantage® miles one way. As an added bonus, Main Cabin seats on trans-Atlantic flights will be redeemable starting as low as 15,000 AAdvantage® miles one way. Whether it’s a bucket list destination, long overdue family reunion, college football game or just about anything else, these award tickets let customers book any day of the week for travel throughout August and September. The promotion starts today and runs through May 28, 2025. No blackout dates, no problems Seats are exclusively available to members of American’s AAdvantage® program to [...]

Source: Iberia With this initiative, Iberia aims to promote the pilot profession and engage the most qualified professionals by participating in their training and helping to finance their education. Interested candidates can submit their applications starting today, May 12, here. A maximum of 12 cadets will be selected to begin their training at FTEJerez in the last quarter of 2025 Iberia has announced the launch of a new edition of its cadet programme in partnership with the prestigious airline pilot school, FTEJerez (Flight Training Europe). From May 12 to May 25, those interested in becoming pilots can submit their applications through Iberia's employment website, where they will find details about the requirements and conditions of this program, designed by Iberia [...]

Source: Iberia If the agreement is ratified, Iberia's cabin crew members will receive additional consolidated and non-consolidated salary increases, linked to profitability, punctuality, NPS, and productivity objectives, a compensation model comparable to that of the pilots. The negotiation has also agreed on significant improvements for the cabin crew members: an additional bonus in 2025, salary increase for the entry level (guaranteeing the monthly minimum wage), staggered increases for levels 11, 10, 9, and 8, creation of an incident bonus, maintenance of the current Special Leave with more quota, recovery of the Loreto from 2021, payment of diet if the new start time of the pairing is delayed to the next day, two days of WB diet if a crew member [...]