Airlines
Shutdown Causing Flight Delays Out Of LaGuardia
A shortage of air traffic controllers due the partial government shutdown is the US is causing delayed flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Flights are also reportedly delayed at several other major airports, including Newark and Philadelphia. An increase in sick leave among air traffic controllers is causing the delays at several major East Coast airports, according the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. The FAA had briefly halted flights into LaGuardia and some arriving flights were delayed almost an hour and a half. By early afternoon, delays had moderated at...
British Airways Goes Retro
As part of its 100-year birthday, British Airways will be painting four of its aircraft in much-loved retro designs from across its past, with the first confirmed as a Boeing 747 in a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) design. The livery from the 1964-1974 BOAC era will adorn a B747, reg: G-BYGC. The aircraft will leave the paint shop in Dublin and arrive in to Heathrow on Feb. 18, before entering service the following day. This coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first Boeing 747 flight only a few days earlier. The BOAC 747 will be followed by three other aircraft...
Munich Airport Flying High
Munich Airport had yet another record-setting year in 2018 as its total passenger traffic rose by a robust 1.7 million to an all-time high of 46.3 million. That represents a year-over-year increase of around 4%. During the same period, the number of take-offs and landings increased by 2.2% to over 413,000. The airport again benefited from its attractive, worldwide route network. Passenger traffic on long-haul flights was up by an impressive 7% as compared with the previous year. European routes experienced an increase of around 5%, while the passenger total on domestic flights...
Swoop Releases Full Summer Schedule
Low-fare carrier Swoop has released its full summer schedule with non-stop flights available for booking from April 28 through Oct. 26. Along with the three new destinations of London, Ont., Kelowna, BC, and Oakland, Calif., the schedule boasts five new domestic markets, two new transborder markets and an extension of two international routes. The new domestic markets include service between London and Halifax six times per week and daily service from London to/from Abbotsford and Edmonton. Service between Kelowna and Winnipeg will be offered three times a week. The schedule also...
Air Canada Set To Take Off In 2019
It may have been cold outside, but Air Canada warmed things up for about 200 of its industry partners at a gathering designed to update the crowd on how things went in 2018 and where the airline is headed in 2019. Virgilio Russi, the carrier's senior director of sales for Canada, told the group that 2018 was a strong year for the airline, noting as well that in the past 3 years, Air Canada had launched 50 international and transborder routes, growing its capacity by 40%. Russi continued, telling his audience that 2019 won't see the same kind of growth, as the carrier will be...
Let The Journey Begin
IATA has charted the upcoming journey to New Distribution Capability (NDC) adoption by a majority of member airlines by highlighting the experience thus far of a core group of carriers – including Air Canada – which have already embraced the program, reports Quebec editor, Mike Dunbar in this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press. Yanik Hoyles, the association’s NDC director told a recent Geneva press briefing, “In order to pave the way to critical mass, IATA has set up an NDC Leaderboard of 21 airlines which, collectively, carry 30% of all IATA passengers and which...
SickKids Flying High With Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Airlines Canada's partnership with SickKids Foundation in Toronto helped support the SickKids Centre for Global Child Healths (C-GCH) Capacity Building programs in sub-Saharan Africa last year. The 24 round-trip tickets donated by Ethiopian Airlines Canada in late 2017-2018 were divided between the C-GCH and the SickKids International Patient Office, which is supported by The Herbie Fund. The Herbie Fund helps children around the world receive life-saving surgery and treatment at SickKids in Toronto. Using the donated tickets, C-GCH team members flew to Ethiopia, Mali...
Long Night, Good Cause
The Long Night winter tour of the Yukon for travel professionals from across Canada was an “incredible experience” that raised over $11,000 for worthy charities and non-profit organizations in Yukon and NWT, said organizers. The Long Night brought over 80 travel industry specialists from across Canada to participate in a two-night, event-filled celebration in the Yukon from Jan. 4 to 6. The principal sponsor and organizer was Air North, which provided the flights for the trip. “Nothing like this has been tried before,” says Nicole Petersen of Air North, who conceived,...