The embattled ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than a year, but the airline is trying to reassure worried passengers that their travel plans remain intact and that flights aren’t about to be grounded. The news that Spirit was once again voluntarily petitioning for…| PYOK
Flight attendants at American Airlines have slammed senior management at the Fort Worth-based carrier in an explosive new memo from the official crew union, saying they have heard enough excuses and that real change must come quickly to fix the airline’s financial position. The memo from the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) came just…| PYOK
American Airlines is planning to operate an Airbus A321neo, which can usually carry 190 passengers, completely empty up to 40 times back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean on a 2,909 nautical mile journey that will take an estimated six hours to fly in either direction. The reason for the gas-guzzling journey is so that…| PYOK
United Airlines is telling flight attendants to wear bigger, baggier dresses after a major design flaw in its new uniform left some crew members unable to raise their arms above their shoulders. The issue is still unresolved with just weeks before the full rollout.| PYOK
I first wrote about Air New Zealand’s plans for a new uniform in September 2018. Fast-forward more than six and a half years, and the airline has finally unveiled its new uniforms, designed by Kiwi fashion designer Emilia Wickstead. This is the first time in 13 years that Air New Zealand has updated its uniform…| PYOK
In recent years, American Airlines has been accused of becoming the new Spirit Airlines, slashing its onboard product and discounting fares on domestic routes while retreating from international destinations. Could American Airlines end up in the same precarious position as Spirit if it doesn’t change its ways… and fast. Six unions that represent tens of…| PYOK
German flag carrier Lufthansa is reportedly working on a new uniform for tens of thousands of flight attendants, pilots, and other frontline staff, and the airline has tapped iconic German design house Hugo Boss to lead the project. Lufthansa has apparently been secretly working on the project for some time and is getting ready to…| PYOK
Southwest Airlines is bringing back its much-loved ‘Bags Fly Free’ policy just months after ending the decades-long promotion that had set the Dallas-based carrier apart from its rivals. But don’t get too excited just yet. It appears that only applies to a new vacation package service that Southwest plans to launch later this month. Southwest…| PYOK
Frontier and Spirit Airlines have announced a plan to merge the two carriers into the 5th largest airline in the United States. If the definitive merger agreement is approved by competition regulators, the new combined airline would also be the largest ultra-low-cost carrier in the U.S. The airlines presented the merger as a big win…| PYOK
Spirit Airlines has warned investors that its very existence is in jeopardy and that there is “substantial doubt” that the company can continue as a going concern within the next 12 months. The warning comes just months after the Florida-based ultra-low-cost carrier successfully exited a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which was meant to secure Spirit’s…| PYOK
Spanish low-cost airline, Vueling, has strongly refuted claims of antisemitism after it had a group of 50 Jewish French teenagers returning home from a summer camp in Valencia, back to Paris Orly on July 23, booted from a flight by the Guardia Civil – a military national police force. The claim of antisemitism is linked…| PYOK
A U.S.-based group dedicated to bringing attention to anti-Semitic incidents claims a Jewish passenger on a recent JetBlue flight was served a Kosher meal with a racist note scrawled on the packaging. The aptly named StopAntisemitism group shared an image of the meal on its official account on X, which showed the outer layer of…| PYOK
The parents of an 11-year-old girl who was secretly filmed by a flight attendant while using an airplane bathroom are suing American Airlines for negligence after their daughter was left “deeply scarred” by the incident, leaving her afraid to use public restrooms. Ex-American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III was jailed for 18 and a…| PYOK
Flight attendants at Air Canada have voted overwhelmingly to take part in strike action unless the airline significantly improves its offer to struggling crew members in protracted contract negotiations. On Tuesday, the CUPE union, which represents more than 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and its leisure subsidiary Air Canada Rouge, announced that its members…| PYOK
A second Spanish airline has become embroiled in an antisemitism row after a Kosher meal had the words ‘Free Palestine’ scrawled on it during a long-haul flight from Buenos Aires to Madrid. This case involves the Spanish flag carrier Iberia, which is owned by the same parent company as low-cost airline Vueling, which made international…| PYOK
With Alaska Airlines embarking on an ambitious international expansion, it has now been revealed that the iconic Eskimo character that has adorned the tailfins of the Seattle-based carrier’s planes since the 1970s will not be admired in cities like London, Rome, Tokyo, and Seoul. Instead, Alaska Airlines has unveiled a new ‘global’ aircraft design that…| PYOK
Alaska Airlines is crying foul in federal court because it is being forced to spend $10 million for the rights to the defunct Virgin America brand at the same time that domestic flights for Delta Air Lines are sold on a Virgin website – directly competing with Alaska Airlines. Taking its fight to the home…| PYOK
The pilots of a Southwest Airlines flight from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas had to make the “most insane dive ever” on Friday morning in order to avoid a mid-air collision with another plane. Multiple passengers who were on the flight took to social media to report their experience that left two flight attendants with…| PYOK
Furious flight attendants are demanding that United Airlines sack a pilot who made an inflammatory comment on a public social media post, which shared the news that crew members at the Chicago-based carrier had rejected a new tentative contract by a wide majority. On Tuesday, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) announced that 71% of…| PYOK
