Airline News

Frontier executives didn't say much about the state-of-play in a bid for Spirit Airlines during an earnings call this week. It was more about the here-and-now business, which for Frontier was about ancillary revenues.

Brazil's Gol is feeling the benefit of its expanded strategic alliance with American Airlines just weeks after the pact was finalized.

Good morning from Skift. It's Friday, April 29, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Recently retired Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly once predicted 20 percent of the business travel market may never come back after the pandemic. But it's sure looking like that prognostication may prove too pessimistic. The carrier is seeing a faster return of road warriors than it could have expected.

Finnair bears the biggest brunt among European airlines from Russia's airspace closure. With the expectation that it will be some time before flights can resume, Finnair is pivoting and shrinking its business in an effort to adapt to its new reality.

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, April 24, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

JetBlue is struggling to find positive news after operational issues forced it to cancel roughly 10 percent of its flights in April, and scale way back on summer flying. The pilot shortage has come home to roost with some asking if JetBlue is now just a stepping stone for crew members on their way to bigger airlines.

Canada's emergence from the pandemic is taking longer than in the U.S. Air Canada is proof, with its executives now forecasting a return to 2019 traffic by the middle of next year.

Delta will pay flight attendants for boarding time in what it claims is a move to improve reliability. But the additional pay comes as the largest flight attendant union tries to organize crews amid a national rise in organized labor.

China's state-owned carriers are something of a proxy for government policy. The lack of plans to resume much international flying this year at Air China and China Southern signals continued tight Covid-19 border restrictions for the world's second largest economy.