The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...
An inability to adhere to an AD grounds the United Airlines Boeing 757 fleet.
Delta Airlines has pushed back its Boeing 787 deliveries to the next decade, it was revealed in a SEC filing. The airline, which inherited the 787 order from the merger with Northwest Airlines, was originally due to take delivery of the aircraft between 2008-2010 – which had since been...
United Airlines has recently been very interested in a merger with another airline. They were first in talks with US Airways, which fell through. Thereafter, they have been in talks with Continental Airlines ( IATA : CO ) and now the fruits have come out. Many reputed news sources,...
HOUSTON AND CHICAGO, May 3, 2010 – Continental (NYSE: CAL) and United (NASDAQ: UAUA) today announced a definitive merger agreement, creating the world ’s leading airline with superior service to customers, expanded access to an unparalleled global network serving 370 destinations around the world, enhanced long-term career prospects for...
The United States and Japan have signed a full Open Skies deal between the two countries, which marks the first of its kind between these two nations. Highlights, as reported by Airline Route Updates blog include *Unlimited flights, destinations for carriers from both sides between US and Japan, except...
Continental Airlines has established new codeshare agreements with existing Star Alliance carriers following its entry to the airline alliance. The agreements are as follows Asiana CO code on Asiana flights from Seoul to Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle Tokyo Narita Nagoya OZ code on 13 Continental domestic routes operating...