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In 2021, Singapore Airlines topped the list for best first class, followed by Lufthansa in second place and Emirates in third.(Representational image) In 2004, 23.8 million flights took off worldwide. In the first four months of 2022, the number of flights globally was already at 25.8 million. By the end of this year, 130 start-up airlines plan to launch airline operations, adding to the nearly 5,000 existing airlines with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) codes. Picking an airline from a sea of options can be tricky. Which one is the safest? Is there good in-flight food and entertainment? What’s their on-time performance record? Do bags often get misplaced in transit? What’s their refund policy? Let’s look at the world’s airline report by various aviation and independent bodies. Top 10 Airlines in the 2021 Skytrax World Airline Awards (in order of ranking): 1. Qatar Airways Close 2. Singapore Airlines 3. ANA: All Nippon Airways 4. … [Read more...] about MC Travel Special: Best and worst international airlines by customer experience

T'way Air's A330-300 aircraft is used to fly the Incheon-Singapore route. [T'WAY AIR] T'way Air is now flying the Incheon-Singapore route and plans to fly more mid- to long-distance routes as they become available after the potential merger of Korean Air Lines and Asiana. The carrier flew from Incheon to Changi, Singapore, on May 28, and will do so every Wednesday and Saturday. It plans to up the route's flight frequency in the future, aiming to fly the route once a day. T'way Air is now the only low cost carrier to fly the Incheon-Singapore route, with Korean Air Lines and Asiana Airlines the only other airlines flying it. Budget airline Jeju Air has been flying to Changi since 2019, but only from Gimhae International Airport in Busan. T'way Air uses its A330-300 to fly to and from Singapore. The carrier received its first A330-300 in February and now has three, which have a flight range of over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). The range allows the carrier to fly from Korean … [Read more...] about T’way Air now takes passengers flying between Incheon and Singapore

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Is there a pilot shortage, or not? Depending on who you ask, you can get different answers . Flights are getting cancelled due to a lack of pilots, and small cities are losing service as a result. Over time this problem will correct itself with changes in pay, new training, and perhaps regulatory reform. None of these solutions will fix this summer, however. With strong demand for air travel both domestically and internationally, the airline industry has a challenge to make this summer work. To address this near-term challenge, airlines have started to adopt some creative tactics. Not all of these may work, but they get to the heart of the matter - finding more pilots quickly. Here are some of the best ideas that are being tried: Use Higher Pay As An Incentive Incentives work, and often monetary incentives work the best. In order to keep pilots flying and maybe not jumping to a bigger airline, some airlines are offer … [Read more...] about Five Creative Ways Airlines Are Addressing The Pilot Shortage

Tom Stalnaker is an Oliver Wyman partner and the firm's global aviation sector lead. Khalid Usman is a partner in Oliver Wyman's transportation and services practice specializing in airline economics. Andrew Buchanan is a vice president in Oliver Wyman's transportation and services practice. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own. After two years of enduring masks, social distancing and quarantines, there's not much that can come between consumers and their summer vacations this year. Outbreaks of Covid-19 no longer seem to stop them from traveling — and based on recent demand for air travel, neither do higher prices for getaways. But while consumers may have gotten over fears of Covid, the economy is still riddled with its impacts — including high fuel prices , disrupted supply chains, and a labor market filled with workers hoping to work at least part of the time from home. For airlines, busy summer travel is turning into a season of operational … [Read more...] about Opinion: Airlines are facing pressure from all directions

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin PS , the private terminal service for airline passengers, is adding a second location, this one at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest U.S. airport with over 75 million passengers in 2021. The move comes as Delta Air Lines, which operates a hub there, said it is restricting access to SkyClub lounges. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , wait times at TSA checkpoints have been stretching to 45 minutes on busy mornings. The PS VIP lounge will open this Fall, joining Los Angeles International Airport. The service enables travelers to avoid the main terminals with private TSA Security, Customs, Immigration and lounge facilities. In Atlanta, PS will partner with Signature Aviation, the world’s largest operator of FBOs , the private jet terminals used for business jets and general aviation. Through a long-term lease agreement, one of Signature’s two buildings at Hartsfield-Jackson … [Read more...] about PS Brings VIP Service For Airline Passengers To Atlanta

A new domestic airline took flight in California in April 2021. Avelo Airlines , an ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) founded by aviation industry veteran Andrew Levy, carried its first passengers on a 75-minute trip from Burbank to Santa Rosa, in California wine country, aboard a 189-seat Boeing 737. For introductory fares that started at $19 one way along the route, fliers were offered a seat . . . but not much else. There was no in-flight Wi-Fi or entertainment system. Carry ons and checked bags both cost extra, as did reserving a seat. The only food or drink on offer was a free mini bottle of water. advertisement advertisement In just over a year, Avelo has grown from 3 Boeing 737-800s to a fleet of 10 737s that include Next Gens, with at least 4 more aircraft expected to join by year’s end. The airline now offers more than 225 short-hop flights a week (the average trip lasts less than two hours) into more than two dozen destinations, all of them … [Read more...] about How Avelo Airlines is building an ultra low-cost carrier that’s actually good

Flying business class is passable. But for everyone else, the experience of flight is awful. Leisure travel has devolved into a Lord of the Flies battle for resources—the slightest recline of our seats, some fresh air to breathe through a mask—that turns passengers against each other in desperation. This hell is the natural consequence of air travel’s business plan to maximize bodies on a plane to offset high fuel costs; it’s a business plan that, horrendously, works . advertisement advertisement As radical as the idea may seem, Núñez Vicente actually isn’t the first to design a double-decker plane seat. In 2020, designer Jeffrey O’Neil proposed the Zephyr Seat , which reimagined seating as a series of bunk beds. But Núñez Vicente has struck a certain nerve of the internet, spawning thought pieces and memes with his vision for a remarkably snug seating arrangement. Meanwhile, he claims that representatives from every major airline have come … [Read more...] about More leg room, less space to breathe: Meet the double-decker plane seat

There's a story I heard when I was writing a book about Harvard Business School . It goes like this. A student at an elite college is upset about a school policy. He complains to a dean : "What kind of a business treats its paying customers like this?" The dean replies: "That's where you're mixed up. You're not the customer. You're the product." I thought of this recently when I heard what American Airlines is saying about the passengers who are now flying -- and whom it will need to attract to survive in the post-coronavirus world. Let's take a quick step back. For a long time before the pandemic, American Airlines has been like its big rivals -- specifically United Airlines and Delta Air Lines -- in that its key passengers were business travelers. It made sense. I mean, if you ran an airline, who would you rather have in the seats? Would you want casual flyers who have very little brand loyalty and whose top concern, bar none, is simply … [Read more...] about American Airlines Just Revealed a Brutal Truth. Here’s What It Means for Passengers (and Your Business)

Southwest Airlines has had a number of great ideas. Free checked bags, flexible tickets, and efficient route planning that kept planes in the sky--and its profit margins as high as possible. Amid the pandemic, it had another brilliant idea. And it's backfired. As competing airlines were downsizing routes and destinations, Southwest decided to expand. Its expansion strategy was a bold move that made it more convenient than ever. By adding new destinations and routes , it was effectively meeting people where they were. But, months later, the bold move is proving to be a bad move, as the airline lacked one major thing every growing business needs: the infrastructure to support its growth . Now, Southwest is in a position no business wants to be in: Its selling point is growing into a pain point, as it increasingly cancels and changes flights. And putting its customers in a position no one wants to be in, facing last-minute trip changes, cancellations, and the … [Read more...] about Southwest Becomes One of America’s Least Reliable Airlines–After One Bright Idea Backfires

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (June 28): It is critical that airline consumer rights be enhanced to safeguard consumer well-being and ensure the people’s interests are always protected, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said. Such a pursuit, amid the challenges brought on by the pandemic, requires extensive collaborations and engagement to bring the aviation industry forward, both locally and globally, he added. "To prepare for the future, we must reflect on the lessons learned from the pandemic and improve further,” he said in his speech at the Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM)’s inaugural international aviation webinar, "Charting a New Frontier: Aviation Consumer Protection Needs Today and Beyond". Wee said Covid-19 had reaffirmed the critical importance of air travel and its development for Malaysia, as airlines and airports also had to quickly adapt to the introduction of new regulations and pivot their business and operational strategies during the … [Read more...] about Critical for airline consumer rights to be enhanced, says Wee