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ROUTES May 29, 2026 Avianca vs. jetBlue: The Battle for Spirit's Florida Throne As Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy weaker than before, Avianca and jetBlue are positioning to claim its lucrative Florida-Latin America routes. Read More →

ROUTES May 29, 2026 Argentina Scales Back Special World Cup Flights as Fuel Costs Climb and Demand Falls Short Argentine carriers reduce special charter flights for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, citing high jet fuel prices and weaker than expected ticket demand. Read More →

ROUTES May 29, 2026 JetBlue Plans New Fort Lauderdale to Caracas Route: What Travelers Should Know JetBlue plans to launch service between Fort Lauderdale and Caracas, pending government approvals. Here's what travelers need to know about the new route. Read More →

ROUTES May 26, 2026 Porter Airlines Has Just Entered Texas for the First Time with New Nonstop Flights from Toronto Porter Airlines has made its Texas debut, inaugurating nonstop year-round service between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport on May 21, 2026, a launch that marks the Canadian carrier's first-ever scheduled service to the Lone Star State and adds another direct Canada–US link at a time when cross-border travel demand is demonstrably outpacing available nonstop capacity. Read More →

ROUTES May 22, 2026 American Airlines Has Just Opened Four New Nonstop Routes to Europe American Airlines touched down in European cities it had never served nonstop before, and returned to one it had abandoned for eight years, as four new transatlantic routes took off simultaneously on May 21, 2026, marking the opening day of the carrier's record summer 2026 schedule. Read More →

ROUTES May 22, 2026 Air Canada Is About to Fly Directly From Montreal to Mallorca for the First Time Air Canada is weeks away from launching a route that no Canadian carrier has ever flown before, a nonstop service between Montréal-Trudeau International Airport and Palma de Mallorca Airport on the sun-soaked Spanish island in the western Mediterranean. Read More →

ROUTES May 22, 2026 Kazakhstan's National Carrier Is Seeking State Funds to Launch Its First US Flights Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, has formally sought financial support from the Kazakh state to help fund the launch of direct flights to the United States. Read More →

NEWS May 21, 2026 Avelo Airlines Has Quietly Wiped an Entire Day Off Its Flying Schedule and the Reason Goes Far Beyond Tuesday A small but telling decision by Avelo Airlines has caught the attention of the US aviation industry this week. The ultra-low-cost carrier has effectively eliminated all Tuesday flights from its network for 13 weeks running from mid-May through mid-August 2026. Read More →

NEWS May 21, 2026 After 17 Years and Two Trials, a Paris Court Has Finally Found Airbus and Air France Guilty of Killing 228 People Over the Atlantic A Paris appeals court has today delivered one of the most consequential verdicts in the history of commercial aviation, finding both Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the June 2009 crash of Air France Flight AF447; a disaster that killed all 228 people on board and remains the worst aviation accident in French history. Read More →

ROUTES May 21, 2026 Alaska Airlines Has Just Taken Off to London for the First Time, and a Boeing 737 to Iceland Is Only One Week Away Alaska Airlines officially entered the transatlantic market today, operating its first-ever nonstop service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and London Heathrow, marking a fundamental shift in the identity of a carrier that, until recently, had never flown passengers across the Atlantic. Read More →