From ICAO:

Kenmore Air has announced it will fly from Boeing Field in Seattle and Paine Field in Everett, WA to Victoria, BC.

Airline news worldwide for June 4, 2023:

• United Airlines is planning to add 35 new routes in Europe and Latin America this summer. The new routes will add more than 100,000 seats per week to United’s network.
• American Airlines is adding a new direct flight from Dallas to Tel Aviv. The new flight will start on June 10 and will operate four times per week.
• Delta Air Lines is adding a new direct flight from Atlanta to Mexico City. The new flight will start on June 17 and will operate three times per week.
• Southwest Airlines is adding a new direct flight from Chicago to Cancun. The new flight will start on June 18 and will operate four times per week.
• Spirit Airlines is adding a new direct flight from Fort Lauderdale to Orlando. The new flight will start on June 25 and will operate three times per week.

In addition to these new routes, several airlines are also increasing the frequency of flights on existing routes. For example, American Airlines is increasing the frequency of flights between New York and London, and Delta Air Lines is increasing the frequency of flights between Atlanta and Paris.

The addition of new routes and the increase in frequency of flights is a sign that the airline industry is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger traffic is still below pre-pandemic levels, but it is expected to continue to grow in the coming months.

Here are some other airline news headlines from June 4, 2023:

• Airlines are struggling to hire pilots. The shortage of pilots is forcing airlines to cancel flights and reduce service.
• Airlines are raising fares. The rising cost of fuel is forcing airlines to raise fares.
• Airlines are facing competition from new entrants. New airlines are entering the market, which is putting pressure on established airlines.

Overall, the airline industry is facing a number of challenges, but it is also showing signs of recovery. The addition of new routes and the increase in frequency of flights is a positive sign, and it is expected that the industry will continue to grow in the coming months.

Here is a brief report on worldwide airline news for today based on the web search results:

• Air Algerie orders Airbus A350s and A330neos to enhance its fleet with the most technologically advanced aircraft¹.
• Czech Airlines will lease four Airbus A220s from Air Lease Corporation in a new cabin configuration¹.
• easyJet is linking Bristol with Marrakech from October as part of its four-year commitment to Moroccan tourism¹.
• Asia-Pacific Airlines are taking the long way home to 2019 levels as they wait for Southeast Asian airlines to add more capacity¹.
• Go First requests regulator not to suspend its air operator certificate and assures it is working towards a flight resumption plan¹.
• AirAsia Aviation sees ‘promising improvement’ in Q1 earnings as international travel demand returns and eyes a ‘return to normalcy’ this year².
• Air India uses artificial intelligence to create upskilling platform for employees and invests heavily in digital solutions¹.
• China Southern faces backlash as passenger complains of cabin crew insult and apologizes after its ground staff in Singapore told a passenger he’d treat them ‘like a dog’¹.
• American Airlines will appeal the court ruling that requires it to dissolve its ‘Northeast Alliance’ with JetBlue Airways².
• Turkish Airlines introduces designer Ferragamo amenity kits with a sustainable twist as part of its refresh of its high quality business class¹.
• Avianca will deploy its Boeing 787s with business class seats on Bogota – Los Angeles route after listening to feedback¹.
• Qantas readies Boeing 787s for New York via Auckland flights in June and will commence flying nonstop from Auckland to New York City with its new 787 Dreamliners².
• Delta Air Lines opens new Delta One check-in and West Headhouse at LAX and concludes the second of three phases of the Delta Sky Way at LAX project².
• The US is now seeing more air passengers than before COVID-19 and almost 12.4 million US travelers took to the skies over the Memorial Day weekend, according to the Transport Security Administration².

Here are some of the top airline news stories from June 1, 2023:

• United Airlines to cut 500 flights in July and August. United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will cut 500 flights in July and August due to staffing shortages. The airline said that the cuts will affect flights to and from smaller airports, and that passengers will be notified of the changes.
• American Airlines to add more flights to Europe. American Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will add more flights to Europe in the coming months. The airline said that it will add 10 new routes to Europe, including flights from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, and from Dallas to Milan, Italy.
• Delta Air Lines to raise fares. Delta Air Lines announced on Wednesday that it will raise fares on some domestic flights. The airline said that the fare increases will range from $5 to $10 per ticket.
• Airlines to face new competition from Uber Air. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is planning to launch a flying taxi service called Uber Air. The service is expected to launch in 2025, and it will compete with airlines for short-haul flights.
• Airlines to invest in sustainable aviation. Airlines are investing in sustainable aviation technologies in an effort to reduce their environmental impact. Some of the technologies that airlines are investing in include electric aircraft, biofuels, and carbon capture and storage.

From Business Insider:

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-skiplagging-and-why-airlines-hate-the-booking-practice-2023-5

OAG announced this analysis:

• 60% of the top ten long-haul flights (based on seats) for the 2023 summer season are transatlantic routes, according to new OAG analysis.
• The Indian long-haul market is one to watch as Air India expands services.
• China is further behind as 21 operators of long-haul services are yet to return to the market.

Long-haul* travel is one of the last areas within aviation to recover, but this summer it is back.  All but two of the top ten long-haul routes (based on capacity) are operating a higher level of capacity in summer 2023 than pre-pandemic, and overall, long-haul capacity sits 9% behind its summer 2019 level. See Table one, below.

6/10 of the long-haul routes with most capacity are transatlantic routes. Top of the list is JFK-LHR with 9,392 seats. CDG-JFK sees the biggest increase in capacity, operating with 45.2% more seats than in summer 2019.

Though not featured in the top 10, India is a hotspot of long-haul development. Air India is rapidly expanding as they continue to develop non-stop services to the USA, expand their UK operations with services to LGW, double their services to Australia, and have even launched a new service to Tokyo Haneda.

For China, long-haul connectivity remains a real issue as the relatively late announcement of travel restrictions being eased in the first quarter of the year prevented airlines from planning services, whilst the avoidance of Russian airspace has compounded that issue for European carriers. 21 airlines that operated long-haul services to and from China have yet to return to the market.

*A long-haul flight is classified here as a flight with a sector length of more than 2,500 nautical miles (NM). 

Table one: Top 10 long-haul airports pairs, Summer 2019

Cirium’s Global On-Time Performance Report: April 2023

According to Cirium:

Europe:

• LOT Polish Airlines was named Europe’s most punctual carrier last month, with 89.25% of flights arriving on-time
• Iberia landed second position, with over 87.28% of all flights arriving on-time
• Norwegian Air Shuttle, Austrian Airlines and Finnair also made the top five, offering customers punctual service on over 85% of flights
• No UK airline featured in the top 10 of most punctual European carriers.

Globally:

• Globally, Iberia was named the most punctual airline in April, with 87.28% of flights arriving at their destination on-time
• The second spot was highly contested, with South American airline Avianca securing an 86.83% punctuality score, just head of rival LATAM Airlines which took third place with 85.80%
• Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines took fourth and fifth spot, with 84.26% and 83.95% respectively.

Cancellations:

• The number of cancelled flights within Europe fell by 48% in April 2023 compared to the previous month
• In April 2023, 7,468 flights were cancelled within Europe, down from 14,405 in March 2023.

For further analysis of airlines’ punctuality scores in April 2023, please see the full report attached.

Notes to editors

• Cirium defines an on-time flight as one that arrives at its destination airport within 15 minutes of its scheduled arrival time
• For the Global Airlines category, only the top 10% of all passenger airlines by capacity are included, with each airline being required to serve at least three regions. 
• For the European Airlines category, only the top 30% of all passenger airlines by capacity are included.

Bags have turned into a cash cow for U.S. airlines.

U.S. airlines had baggage fee revenue of more than $6.7 billion last year, according to the DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

American Airlines had almost $1.4 billion in revenue from checked bags.

Southwest Airlines had the least.

Read the full report from NBC:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/money-report/how-u-s-airlines-make-7-billion-a-year-from-checked-bags/3561347/

Summary

Headline:

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is impacting the coast between Bidyadanga and Whim Creek, with the very destructive winds expected to pass to the east of Port Hedland between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse. 

Areas affected:

Warning zone: Bidyadanga to Whim Creek, including Port Hedland but not including Bidyadanga or Whim Creek, and extending inland to near Kiwirrkurra, including Kunawarritji, Nullagine, Marble Bar, Parnngurr and Telfer. .

Watch zone: None.

Cancelled zones: None.

Details of Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa at 11:00 pm AWST:

Intensity: category 5, sustained winds near the centre of 215 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 295 kilometres per hour. 
Location: within 20 kilometres of 19.8 degrees South, 119.4 degrees East , 100 kilometres northeast of Port Hedland and 55 kilometres west northwest of Pardoo Roadhouse . 
Movement: southeast at 18 kilometres per hour .

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, category 5, is on the coast between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse. Ilsa will cross the coast during the next few hours. 

Observations at Bedout Island, offshore of the east Pilbara coast, recorded severe tropical cyclone winds of 218 km/h with gusts of 288 km/h.  

A very destructive wind impact is occuring along the coast and adjacent inland parts between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse.  

During Friday, Ilsa is forecast to maintain tropical cyclone intensity as it tracks past Telfer and further inland across the Northern Interior district and the northern parts of the Southern Interior district. Ilsa is then expected to weaken below tropical cyclone strength overnight Friday as it moves into southern parts of the Northern Territory.

Track and intensity

All times in WST – subtract 8 hours to convert to UTC.

Brussels Airlihes today, March 27, added the Brussels – Zurich route, surprisingly for the first time.

The new route will be served five days a week with Airbus A319s.

Top Copyright Photo: Brussels Airlines Airbus A319-111 OO-SSO (msn 2287) MUC (Gunter Mayer). Image: 960331.

Brussels Airlines aircraft photo gallery:

Cirium Data

Flight analysis from Cirium, the aviation analytics firm, reviews the recovery of flights from each European country and shows how each nation has bounced back from the pandemic. 

The study reveals the number of flights that departed last year compared to 2019 levels, with key findings being:

• 42 European countries and regions ranked
• UK in 29th position with departures in 2022 being 25% down on 2019 levels
• The UK recorded over 1,086,833 departures in 2019, but in 2022 the figure fell to 816,854
• Ireland performed better than the UK, with 2022 departures being only 14% below pre-pandemic levels
• Only two European countries saw last year’s departures exceed pre-pandemic levels – Albania (18%) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (14%)
• Greece, Portugal and Iceland neared pre-pandemic levels, with departures being only 2%, 4% and 5% down respectively 
• Ukraine suffered the largest fall in flights, with 2022 departures 85% down on 2019 levels
• Despite European sanctions, flights from the Russian Federation were only down 20% of 2019 levels – meaning flight levels recovered faster than in the UK.

For individual country analysis, see the below table:

British Airways is gradually adding new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners (G-ZBLD and G-ZBLE soon to arrive). The airline is assigning its flagship to the following routes: Boston, Baltimore (BWI), Denver, Dubai, Newark, Washington Dulles, Houston Bush, Kuwait City, Miami, New Orleans, Chicago O’Hare, Portland (PDX), Seattle/Tacoma and Toronto Pearson.

Dan Air (Romania) (formerly Just Us Air) is planning to launch the Bucharest – London Gatwick route in June 2023. Yes, an airline called Dan Air is coming back to London Gatwick.

flynas has announced 10 new destinations. Four new destinations will be flown from King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, including the Maldives, Yerevan, Antalya and Tivat. Four routes from Dammam will be launched to Salalah, Oman, Istanbul and Trabzon in Turkey, and Tirana. In addition, two more routes will be operated from Jeddah to Salalah and Bodrum, Turkey.

Hong Kong Airlines will launch four times weekly nonstop flights from Hong Kong to Fukuoka, Japan starting on April 7, 2023.

Horizon Air‘s former Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) N441QX (msn 4348) has been painted for ZeroAvia.

Oman Air is adding four new destinations in its Summer 2023 Schedule from Muscat to Chittagoung (March), Maldives (June), Lucknow (August) and Thiruvananthapuram (August).

Turkish Airlines is painting its Boeing 777-300ER TC-LKD (below) in full IndiGo Airlines livery as part of the upcoming lease agreement.

Western sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, especially its airlines, are not living up to expectations due to cheating sources and cannibalization of western aircraft types.

More from Bloomberg Businessweek:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/russian-airlines-are-flying-high-despite-sanctions/ar-AA187u3o

From Cirium:

Cirium Data

• Schedules for the UK airports affected by snow (London City, Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and Bristol) reveal the number of departures today, March 8
• Below you can find the number of departures for each affected airport, including the corresponding number of seats:

Source: Cirium – www.cirium.co