Airline News

This week in aviation, flyers might be able to get ahead of summer storms by understanding how airlines rearrange their schedules. Plus Ryanair named its forthcoming CEO for the main airline, Spirit upgraded its seats, and United miles will no longer expire.

Given that Michael O'Leary is sticking around, you've got to wonder how much control the new Ryanair airline CEO will really have.

The carrier is deepening its commitment to the U.S. with additional nonstop flights that mark a historic expansion. The new service will give leisure and business travelers crossing the Pacific more options and smoother connections.

American Airlines' reputation has taken a hit recently among its best customers. The airline's president recently even said scores on a key customer satisfaction metric have fallen. Can American get its mojo back?

AirAsia’s head honcho can’t wait to transform the airline — he's in the driver’s seat for AirAsia.com and pulling in the best of his troop on the journey. Second-quarter results, just out, show a rather promising platform.

When it comes to implementing and adopting the New Distribution Capability standards for airline retailing, there needs to be a strong focus on enabling scalability, across the entire retailing, distribution, and fulfillment process.

United's decision to remove the expiration date from MileagePlus accounts is a small gesture toward improving the lives of its loyalty program members — and could eventually be key to its growth.

Frontier Airlines planned to IPO recently but pulled it back for unexplained reasons. Sun Country's owners may see the market differently. Will it be the next U.S. airline to go public?

Businesses invariably hate regulation, but sometimes it takes threats and fines to help change things for the better. Would airlines really be pushing their green credentials if consumers, governments, and the media weren't asking difficult questions?

Avianca Brasil, the smaller regional cousin of Avianca Colombia, will leave the alliance on September 1. While some regional passengers may notice the lapse in service deeper in Brazil, most international travelers to the country won't notice the vacuum.