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News to come out of the airline industry this week was anything but stagnant. Though the bag was mixed with both good and bad news, one thing is for certain – it was far from boring! Virgin America announced (again) that it would like to begin service from Chicago if it can get access to [...]

Happy days are here again… or so it seems. This week in the airline industry brought second quarter earnings announcements, most of which were good news. There was also a good deal of growth in the way of orders for new aircraft (thanks to this week’s Farnborough Airshow, the biennial plane-buying extravaganza) and airlines entering [...]

This week in the airline industry was action-packed, starting with the missing luggage of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (even if you’re a national leader or a super hero, your luggage can still get lost), which included his bodyguards’ guns. And as the action ensues on the field during the World Cup, so too does the [...]

Perhaps due to the recovering economy or just plain temerity in some cases, the airline industry seemed to step up its game this week and acted a little bit slick (and not necessarily in a bad way). If the buzz it generated online was any indication, Spirit Airlines takes the gold when it comes to [...]

News out of the airline industry was feisty this week, with the Spirit Airlines pilot strike taking the front seat. It wasn’t just news of the strike that sparked coverage, but the details around it, which involved the pilots picketing before the legally allotted commencement time of the strike, the early cancellation of flights in [...]

Sadly, the author of the Weekly Airline News Roundup is on an exotic beach somewhere, far away from the conveniences of internet and computers and blog posts (and hopefully within close proximity to frozen beverages and crystal clear ocean water). We’re sure plenty of important things happened in the airline industry this week, but sadly [...]

It was a particularly showy week in the airline industry, though not necessarily deliberately so. The week was chocked full of big news items — some good, some bad, and some just plain ridiculous. Sad news for the week included the plane crash of Air India Express, which killed all but eight onboard. Also civil [...]

It was a pregnant news week in the airline industry week with no one news item trumping all else, but no shortage of chunky, important goings-on. The week started with the threat of a bang, as a Cathay Pacific airliner was escorted to Vancouver after a bomb scare. And United had a scare with an [...]

The airline industry saw some turbulence this week, though clearer skies are on the horizon. We had a real mixed bag with the more turbulent news taking the front seat such as the devastating Libya plane crash, with a little boy as the sole survivor of the 104 onboard. Then there was the actual turbulence, [...]

This week saw a return to normalcy of sorts in the airline industry. Air travel across the Atlantic resumed close to normal operations following last week’s volcanic eruption (though not without having lost a whopping $1.7 billion). The irony of Icelandair operating while others weren’t wasn’t lost on us! US Airways ceased its chats with [...]