Airline News

Duluth, Minnesota, will lose one of its airline routes this year, as Allegiant Air said last week it end direct flights to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa.

Ryanair raised its full-year profits guidance today after more than doubling first- quarter earnings and setting out aggressive plans for expansion in Europe.

Ryanair Holdings PLC, Europe's largest discount airline, said Monday that profit in its financial first quarter soared by 152%, as it raised its full-year profit forecast and promised a special dividend following a year marred by surprise profit warnings.

Delta Air Lines will add a second trans-Atlantic route from its Salt Lake City hub next spring, adding nonstop service to Amsterdam.

John Slosar finds that months into his role as Swire Pacific chairman, no day is ever the same with its many subsidiaries all needing attention Swire is one of the world's biggest bottlers of Coca-Cola with a global franchise of 450 million customers.

On-time performance of Southwest Airlines has deteriorated over the past year, dropping from 81 percent of all flights arriving on time in 2013 to 70 percent for the first five months of 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The U.S. Transportation Department issued $20.9 million in fines against airlines from 2010 to 2013.

Marcia and Michael Shiraki of Honolulu took in the sights in San Ramon, Calif., this summer, including the Kilohana Grill.

On an Air New Zealand flight recently, a trivia question caught my eye. "Name the New Zealand public holidays on which shops must close for at least part of the day?" I found it interesting that three of our four "most important" public holidays are holy days, and they are Christian.

UP THE BACK OR AT THE POINTY END? Seat 37H, down the back with the riff-raff . Return fares to Perth were $1100.

FROM LEFT: Air France-KLM Chief Financial Officer Pierre-Francois Riolacci, Air France CEO Frederic Gagey, Air France-KLM CEO Alexandre de Juniac and Dutch airline company CEO Camiel Eurlings at the presentation of Air France-KLM's earnings in Paris.

EWING - Following news that Frontier Airlines will temporarily halt flights on four of its six routes in and out of Delaware's Wilmington-Philadelphia Regional Airport this winter, Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes quelled any concerns that Trenton-Mercer Airport would meet the same fate.

Tata-SIA Airlines Ltd today said it hoped to launch flights by September-October this year as it expressed "satisfaction" over the progress made in getting the flying licence from aviation regulator DGCA.

Speaking to analysts and reporters Thursday, American Airlines president Scott Kirby said AA's July 2 reductions in Venezuela flights will "have a large year-over-year impact" on American's unit revenues.

All eyes on this special cargo carefully being loaded onto a Hawaiian Airlines flight headed for Sendai, Japan.

Aviation news has been dominating headlines lately and the three legacy carriers have recently released earnings.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab wore the same underwear with a bomb attached for two weeks before smuggling it aboard a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.

JetBlue Airways Corp. planes sit docked at the gates of Terminal 5 as another of the company's jets lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014.

A year after Zimbabwe held its elections, thousands continue to live under dire situations as the country's unemployment crisis persists.

A Minnesota man and his two children were asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight in Denver after he tweeted about a boarding disagreement.