An order has been issued to limit passenger capacity to 40% on four routes to the US in retaliation to sanctions imposed by China’s government on United Airlines.
As JetBlue today launches its first transatlantic route, Routes takes a look at the current state of play in the lucrative market between the US and UK.
United Airlines became the first U.S. legacy carrier to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees, as the delta coronavirus variant sweeps through North America and threatens the ongoing recovery in air travel demand.
The Aviation Week Network has compiled aircraft orders for decades, but tracking the emerging and building order stream for advanced air mobility (AAM) airplanes is a different matter entirely.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is betting that corporate and long-haul international traffic will fully recover over the next few years—and that United will be ready to meet it with its network of large coastal hubs and fleet of premium-heavy aircraft.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has been the driving force behind initiatives that have positioned United Airlines as the avant-garde of the global airline industry.
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
“It’s all about gauge, gauge, gauge”—that's how United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby described the company’s recently announced 270-aircraft narrowbody order on an investor call June 29.
The order from Chicago-based United—its biggest ever and the largest by any airline in over a decade—consists of 50 737-8s, 150 737-10s and 70 A321neos.
United Airlines believes dynamics in the post-pandemic domestic market will be different for LCCs looking to capitalize on the shrinking of larger network airlines.
The United deal, which also covers options for 35 additional aircraft, envisages introduction of the first civil supersonic services on trans-Atlantic and Pacific routes by 2029.
United Airlines sees a steady climb underway that will help continue the post-summer leisure travel surge and deliver positive earnings in the 2021 third quarter.
American Airlines and United Airlines are to increase service to Spain after the European country’s government confirmed that borders would reopen from June 7 to travelers who have been fully vaccinated.
The airline added 400 new flights to its July schedule, including a host of routes to leisure destinations in the U.S., as well as select flights to Europe.
