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Delta brings its new JFK terminal to a sidewalk in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood
TransportDelta will unveil extensive renovations to Terminal 4 at New York-JFK on May 24, and it’s opened a pop-up space in SoHo to show off design elements and tech features. Visitors, whether there on purpose or happenstance, are charging their phones, reading the airline’s Sky Magazine, and eating lunch out of tiny Delta suitcases. The [...]
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American Airlines to launch hourly service between New York and Los Angeles
TransportAmerican Airlines plans to launch hourly shuttle service between New York and Los Angeles early next year, as it battles United and Delta on the most popular route in the U.S. The airline, based in Fort Worth, Texas, will use smaller, single-aisle A321s to replace the larger Boeing 767s currently flying the route. The number [...]
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FAA furloughs hitting New York, Los Angeles and Dallas hardest
TransportThe Federal Aviation Administration warned on Monday that air travelers should expect “wide-ranging delays” because of staffing cuts at air-traffic control facilities, and the agency is using traffic management plans at airports around the country to address the problem. The delays “will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather,” the agency said in [...]
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JetBlue in a codeshare deal with Qatar, connecting JFK/IAD to Doha
TransportJetBlue has signed a new codeshare deal with Qatar Airways, expanding on its 2011 interline agreement. This is a one-way codeshare and connects JFK and IAD to Doha, and onwards. More to come. Release below: NEW YORK and DOHA, Qatar, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — JetBlue Airways (JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline™, and Qatar Airways, [...]
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Sequestration cuts will hit New York City airports harder than others
TransportThe U.S. air-traffic system will operate normally for at least a month before controller furloughs raised by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood would begin, assuming automatic budget cuts take place March 1. Even if they take effect, some reductions will furlough employees at towers that haven’t lost controllers as quickly as the airports have lost [...]
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Delta to woo flyers on transcontinental flights with small upgrades
TransportDelta Air Lines Inc. plans service upgrades on some transcontinental U.S. flights from New York as competition intensifies in the nation’s biggest aviation market. Amenities will include sparkling wine and newspapers in business class and an expanded library of movies and on-demand television, Atlanta-based Delta said in a statement today. The routes are between New [...]
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Sandy scuttled NYC airports’ chance to reach passenger record in 2012
TransportPassenger traffic at the New York area’s four commercial airports increased in 2012 despite closures caused by Superstorm Sandy. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says traffic at Newark Liberty, La Guardia, John F. Kennedy and Stewart airports rose by 3.3 percent last year compared to 2011. More than 109 million travelers [...]
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Delta’s JFK expansion to boost regional jet strategy
TransportDelta Air Lines Inc. is planning an additional $175 million project at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 4 — part of a larger expansion effort in the New York region. Under the expanded program, Terminal 4′s Concourse B will house 27 Delta gates and replace Delta’s current Terminal 2 regional-jet operation. All gates will [...]
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JetBlue to start doing real codeshares through JFK, though no global alliance yet
TransportJetBlue Airways Corp. , whose dominance at New York’s Kennedy airport has helped it thrive without a global airline alliance, plans to share flight-booking codes with major carriers for the first time. So-called two-way code shares, in which carriers book passengers on each other’s flights and share revenue, may start as soon as this year, [...]
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United and Lufthansa may cede slots at JFK and Frankfurt to get regulators off their backs
TransportDeutsche Lufthansa AG and United Continental Holdings Inc. may cede airport slots in Frankfurt and New York in a bid to end a European Union antitrust probe of their A++ trans-Atlantic venture also involving Air Canada. EU regulators said they are seeking views from competitors and customers on the offer that would enable rivals to [...]
