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The Right Aircraft For Each Route: How Alaska Looks At Its Fleet Submitted about 15 hours agoChoosing the right aircraft for a route takes a lot of analysis and planning. Alaska Airlines frequently does well in this regard. Alongside the airline’s latest route announcement out of Santa Rosa, Simple Flying got a chance to speak with Brett Catlin, Alaska’s Vice President of Network and Alliances, on how the airline chooses a particular aircraft for a particular route. (simpleflying.com) More...

Exclusive: How American Airlines Is Looking At The Alaska Airlines Partnership Advertisement: The biggest news from the end of March was that Alaska Airlines was officially a member of the  oneworld alliance. Even before Alaska became an alliance member, the airline announced it would be partnering closely with American Airlines on a West Coast Alliance. To learn a little more about how that alliance developed through the crisis and the future, Simple Flying got a chance to speak with Jason Re...

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Advertisement: Icelandair shared this week that it is offering special deals for trips to Iceland following progress in the reopening of travel. The carrier is promoting enticing flight fares and packages for tourists to check out the natural phenomena of the Nordic nation. Icelandair is leading the restart of travel to its home country. Photo: Icelandair Tourists welcome Icelandair highlights that passengers with valid certification of full vaccination against COVID can now enter Iceland witho...

Emirates flies fully vaccinated ‘flight to nowhere’ Cathy Adams © Provided by The Independent Emirates has flown a fully vaccinated passenger ‘flight to nowhere’ as the aviation industry prepares to bounce back following global Covid travel restrictions. Flight EK2021 – given a special flight number – was staffed by fully vaccinated flight crew and staff on the ground. The A380aircraft, which had 400 inoculated passengers onboard, departed its home base of Dubai on...

China Airlines Flies Thousands Of Bees To Vancouver Advertisement: On the evening of April 8th, one of China Southern Airlines’ A350-900s arrived in Vancouver from Taipei carrying thousands of bees. The shipment of bees, originating in Australia, will be released at various locations across the province of British Columbia to pollinate fruit trees. The China Airlines aircraft transporting the bees was one of its 14 Airbus A350-900s. Photo: itdccba via Wikimedia Commons  Un-bee-lievable Vanco...

Wamos Air & HiFly Join Icelandair In Running UK Repatriation Flights From Pakistan Advertisement: The British government recently added Pakistan to its coronavirus ‘red list’ of banned countries. This saw a sudden scramble of demand from passengers in Pakistan to return to the UK before the measure came into effect. Several airlines operated repatriation flights to assist with this matter, among which were the likes of HiFly and Wamos Air. Several of the repatriation flights used Wamos Air�...

Swoop President: The Boeing 737 Is Perfect For Our Routes Advertisement: This June, Swoop will celebrate three years since it launched operations. Like its Canadian counterparts, the global health crisis has taken its toll on the operations of the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC). However, as the company prepares for its three-year anniversary, it is looking to return all nine of its Boeing 737s to the skies. Swoop president Charles Duncan today told Simple Flying about how much his firm values th...

“Prior to the pandemic we had 4.5 billion passenger movements a year. We’ve probably shrunk to 500 million or a billion.  “People say we’ll never get back to that. I don’t believe that. We will recapture that curve during the course of 2022.” The Emirates president said that the hub-and-spoke model, based in Dubai, would continue to work well in the future. FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Simon Calder’s free travel tips email Sign up for the latest deals and insider tips Email Please ente...

Brazilian Startup Ita Transportes Aéreos Prepares For Certification Flights Advertisement: Next week, the Brazilian startup Ita Transportes Aéreos will conduct its first flights, an airline executive told Simple Flying. While these flights won’t be commercial operations, they are a first step towards launching this new carrier in Brazil. Let’s investigate further. Ita Transportes Aéreos is readying to fly. Photo: Courtesy of Alex Cristiano de Paula What kind of flights will Ita have? Sta...