Premium economy airfares have become more popular in recent years, with many travelers still fulfilling their travel wish list that was put on hold during thecoronavirus air travel shutdown. More and more have chosen to invest in a more pleasant flying experience on their journeys in a trend that the global airline industry has been […]

A United Airlines passenger has recounted her experience of flying in a faulty Polaris seat with the Star Alliance carrier last October. The woman, named Cathy, purchased two business class (Polaris) seats to Beijing – the 2nd ticket for her adult daughter.

The Airbus A321XLR was supposed to arrive at Air Canada as a clean answer to one of the airline industry’s most challenging network decisions: flying long, thin transatlantic routes without committing a widebody. The aircraft promised widebody-like range with narrowbody economics, allowing Air Canada to connect secondary European cities from Canada with lower trip cost […]

British Airways (BA) is one of a select handful of airlines that operate all three variants from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family of widebody twinjets. According to ch-aviation, the carrier has 12 units of the smaller 787-8 in its fleet, as well as 18 mid-sized 787-9s and 12 larger 787-10s. For the latter of these […]

Philippine Airlines has announced it will join the oneworld airline alliance, becoming the union’s 16th member. The decision was revealed at the IATA AGM in Rio de Janeiro on June 6th, 2026.

Dubai-based Emirates is planning to remove its Airbus A380-800 from its services to Beijing next month, to focus on frequency. Starting July, the route currently being served once daily by the quadjet will instead return to seeing two daily services, both operations with the carrier’s Boeing 777-300ER fleet deployed on them. However, the carrier will […]

TAAG Angola Airlines has received authorization from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to fly its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet on services into Europe. Africa’s newest Boeing 787 Dreamliner operator will deploy the widebody on its Luanda-Lisbon pairing, which it currently serves with two daily Boeing 777-300ER flights.

For decades, the pinnacle of an airline pilot’s career was widely assumed to be in the cockpit with a legacy carrier like Delta Air Lines or American Airlines. Those airlines offered prestige, extensive route networks, and compensation packages that placed them at the top of the profession. In 2026, however, a subtle shift is taking […]

The Treasury Department of the United States of America has officially eased some of its sanctions on the South American country of Venezuela. On the aviation side of things, the most notable aspect is the fact that Venezuelan flag carrier Conviasa is listed among the entities for which the US is now permitting certain transactions […]

As Europe basks in an alarming heatwave, long-haul low-cost carrier French bee is already beginning to turn its attention to the winter, and it has filed an interesting new intercontinental route. Specifically, from December onwards, it will fly twice a week from its main base at Paris Orly Airport (ORY) in France to Malé (MLE) […]