Airline News

The CEO of Air New Zealand has pushed back on suggestions that the airline's headline-grabbing premium products are difficult to justify at a time of mounting losses and cost cuts.

The electric and hybrid plane dream is alive, but the funding model that gets it there still needs to be figured out.

India's two biggest airlines spent the last few years expanding aggressively abroad. IndiGo leased wide-body aircraft for the first time. Air India was looking to rebuild into a world-class global carrier. Both are now in retreat, at least temporarily, from some of those ambitions.

Delta is not hiking fees on its credit cards even as its competitors continue to increase annual fees and roll out premium travel credit cards in an increasingly saturated market.

Every tool is in play. What’s missing is a lasting ceasefire.

Most travel companies are still cataloguing AI use cases. Air Canada's chief digital officer argues that catalogue is what’s keeping their AI work narrow and shallow.

If you are funding AI features before the data and event architecture beneath them, this session argued you are building on sand.

After two days of relative normalcy, this is a devastating blow to a hub that has spent months clawing its way back.

Air India is working hard to fix products and perceptions in its most important international market. The customer metrics suggest the effort is landing, even if the experience remains inconsistent.

After a frenzy of speculation about airline M&A, talks have dried up. The industry is too consolidated for the big carriers to merge, and the smaller ones don't have viable partners.