Airlines
Discover The Spirit Of Fiji
Tourism Fiji's Ruth Daly says visiting her destination can truly be a family affair. Daly, regional director at the tourism board's Los Angeles office, told a Baxter Media webcast that her South Pacific destination is a particularly welcoming place, adding there's a "spirit on Fiji that everyone is family … You arrive as a visitor but you leave family." Visiting families will find "amazing" family programs, she continued. Tropical Fiji is home to some 333 islands, about 110 of them inhabited. Those visiting the inhabited ones will encounter Fijian culture everywhere, with...
Porter Airlines Unveils New Inflight Offering
Porter Airlines has unveiled details of its updated premium in-flight service offering, with an emphasis on partnering with high-quality Canadian brands. The carrier continues to elevate economy air travel for everyone in its greatly expanding network. Coinciding with the airline’s strategy to grow in markets throughout North America using new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, as well as its existing De Havilland Dash 8-400 fleet, travellers will enjoy a new level of generosity and thoughtful service that is non-existent in economy air travel today. The new aircraft and in-flight amenities...
Swoop Takes Off To Cuba
Swoop has inaugurated service between Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport (YYZ) and Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport in Varadero, Cuba (VRA). Bob Cummings, President of Swoop, said: “As Canada's favourite sun and fun ultra-low-cost carrier, we are thrilled to celebrate our launch into Cuba. Varadero is widely known as a Canadian favourite for affordable beach vacations, and so we're proud to provide Torontonians a new ultra-convenient, ultra-not-expensive option for travel to Playa Azul.” Ontarians looking for a pre-packaged vacation to an all-inclusive...
Canada Jetlines Partners With TripAdmit
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd is partnering with TripAdmit, the online booking system providing passengers with the ability to select and book from a full range of tours and activities in the destinations served by the airline. TripAdmit has produced a fully customized white label solution for Canada Jetlines, utilizing powerful booking software and AI technology for personalized segmentation – with the aim to maximize ancillary revenue opportunities from the sale of activities to Jetlines’ passengers. The news of the new partnership comes following Canada Jetlines’...
Come Back Changed
Come Back Changed. That’s the message of Air Transat’s newly launched promotional campaign. Inspired by the belief that travel has transformative powers, the campaign aims to demonstrate the importance of travel and its ability to transform not only our way of being by expanding our horizons, but also our state of mind. The campaign also supports the airline's new brand positioning and its tagline -- Travel Moves Us. Developed in collaboration with creative agency Sid Lee, the campaign features a short video featuring Maggie, a traveller who has just returned from a trip...
FAA Reporting Normal Air Traffic Ops Resuming
The FAA is now reporting that “normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the United States following an overnight outage to the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system that provides safety information to flight crews.” It has also lifted the ‘ground stop’ that it had issued earlier and indicated that it is continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem. At shortly after 8 am today (Jan. 11, 2023), the FAA indicated that it had made progress in restoring its NOTAM system following the overnight outage and that departures were resuming at...
The Recovery Continues
The air travel recovery continued in November with IATA reporting that total traffic in November 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 41.3% compared to November 2021. Globally, traffic is now at 75.3% of November 2019 levels. IATA also reported that: International traffic rose 85.2% versus November 2021. The Asia-Pacific continued to report the strongest year-over-year results with all regions showing improvement compared to the prior year. November 2022 international RPKs reached 73.7% of November 2019 levels. Domestic traffic for November 2022 was up...
PLAY Takes Off From Canada This Summer
PLAY, a low-cost airline operating flights between Iceland and Europe, has announced it will be offering service to Canada, with its first flights to Europe taking off in summer 2023. Beginning today, travellers can book tickets from John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport to 26 European destinations including London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg and more. Flight service from John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport will begin on June 22, 2023. To celebrate its inaugural flights from Canada, PLAY is offering introductory fares from...