

Yuriko Nakao/Getty Imagesįrance is the latest European country to eliminate its COVID-related entry requirements.

20.Īn aerial view of Paris during the 52nd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport in June 2017. 11 and San Diego-Boston service starting Aug. It recently announced plans to start using A321neos in mid-September from Seattle to LAX, Maui, and New York JFK it already flies the plane to Boston from San Francisco and Denver and will add Seattle-Boston on Aug. 20 on a daily Los Angeles-Maui flight, as well as a handful of flights between LAX and Minneapolis-St. “The airline aims to continue to roll out the product across additional fleet types and destinations in the years ahead,” Delta said.ĭelta is also deploying its new single-aisle Airbus A321neos on more domestic routes. 17 with a 767-400ER and Salt Lake City-Maui, which will resume Dec. 17 with an A330-300 New York JFK to Honolulu, beginning Dec. Delta said it will sell the Premium Select seats on three Hawaii non-stop routes: Atlanta-Maui, starting Nov. And American Airlines will shrink operations at its Philadelphia hub this fall, cutting seven flights a day in September and 13 a day in October.ĭelta’s Premium Select service - an upgraded economy class product with extra legroom, wider seats with greater recline, and improved in-flight amenities, available on most of the carrier’s transatlantic and transpacific flights - is coming to select domestic routes later this year. Frontier’s only California routes getting the axe are Sacramento-Phoenix, which was scheduled for three weekly flights and Ontario-Phoenix, which was supposed to operate four days a week. Most of the domestic routes dropped are to and from Florida, while all of the international ones are to Cancun. 10.Įlsewhere, Simple Flying is reporting that Frontier Airlines plans a big overhaul of its winter schedule this year, dropping 32 domestic and 11 international routes that were slated to operate for the season starting in November. (Ironically, JetBlue had also sought those slots, and last week, the airline succeeded in its bid to acquire Spirit.) At Las Vegas, meanwhile, Spirit added new daily flights to Albuquerque and Boise this week and will begin twice-daily Las Vegas-Reno service on Aug. And that is likely to continue, since the Transportation Department earlier this month reassigned eight peak-hour takeoff and landing slots at Newark to Spirit after Southwest gave them up. It’s part of a continuing build-up of service at Newark for Spirit, which also includes daily Los Angeles flights that started in May. The eastbound segment is not a red-eye - it departs OAK at 8:10 a.m., while the return from EWR leaves at 5:30 p.m. Spirit will fly the route - the only non-stop service between those two airports - once a day with a 182-passenger Airbus A320neo. Oakland International Airport will get its newest transcontinental route next week, when Spirit Airlines introduces non-stop service to Newark Liberty International on Aug. In the latest air travel news, Spirit Airlines will debut a new transcontinental route from Oakland next week low-cost Avelo Airlines will add Palm Springs to its route map this fall Frontier Airlines and American Airlines will drop some service this fall Delta Air Lines is adding a Premium Select seating option on some Hawaii flights and putting new A321neo planes onto more domestic routes France and Tahiti end COVID entry restrictions Lufthansa pilots vote to strike if they can’t get the contract they want Amsterdam Schiphol extends its passenger cap into the fall British Airways stops selling short-haul flights out of London Heathrow through next week low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways starts two European routes out of LAX this month the Transportation Department issues new proposed rules tightening up on mandatory passenger refunds and the FAA asks for public comments on setting minimum dimension for airline seats.

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies at a Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development in April 2022.
