British budget airline easyJet launched a new booking platform on Wednesday to allow customers to more easily connect onto long-haul flights with other airlines, moving ahead of its rivals in a potentially lucrative market. Both easyJet and Ryanair have for some time been looking at ...
Major carriers All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines are offering more options for in-flight meals amid a rise in foreign passengers and fierce competition with low-cost carriers, the companies said. ANA said that 30 years ago, most passengers on its international flights were Japanese. But ...
The creation of the world's biggest alliance of low-cost airlines may signal that some of Asia's struggling budget carriers are headed for the altar. The Value Alliance, announced Monday, stretches from Japan to Australia and includes Singapore Airlines Ltd.'s Scoot and Nok Airlines PCL in ...
The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it is investigating whether U.S. airlines worked together illegally to keep airfares high by signaling plans to limit flights. The Justice Department wrote to major U.S. air carriers demanding that they detail decisions to limit the number ...
Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who steered a Germanwings flight into a mountainside, had a history of depression so debilitating that he left his pilot training program for six months in the late 2000s, reports Germany's Bild newspaper. When he was ready to return, he had ...
The transport ministry plans to raise the age limit for airline pilots from 64 to 67 to address a shortage following increasing demand for flights and the growth of low-cost carriers, government sources said Tuesday. The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry is expected to ...
Faced with a drop in demand from global carriers, Narita International Airport is increasingly focusing on domestic flights, particularly those run by low-cost carriers. The shift is inevitable. In spring 2014, the government increased the slots available at Haneda airport in Tokyo, and airlines leaped ...
Low-cost carrier Hong Kong Express Airways Ltd. will increase flights to Japan by around 10 per week by next summer, an airline official said Thursday. Andrew Cowen, deputy chief executive officer of the Hong Kong-based carrier better known as HK Express, unveiled the plan during ...
Japan’s growing crop of low-cost carriers face a shakeout as their U.S. counterparts recover and begin expanding overseas.
Hotels near Narita International Airport are seeing new business opportunities amid the increase in early morning flights operated by low-cost carriers. Three LCCs — Jetstar, Vanilla Air and Spring Airlines — operate their first flights of the day shortly after 6 a.m. Because catching the ...
The Japanese unit of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines Co. opened three Japanese routes Friday following two postponements caused by training delays. The routes will connect Narita International Airport with Takamatsu Airport in Kagawa Prefecture, Hiroshima Airport and Saga Airport, with one daily round-trip flight ...
Peach Aviation Ltd. began canceling flights Monday in a hiatus that will last through the fall because the budget airline failed to fill its cabin crew schedules this summer. Last month, it announced up to 2,088 cancellations from May 19 to Oct. 25, or around ...
