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Farewell “Continental” Call Sign

Today, November 30th, Continental Airlines and United Airlines will merge into a single operating certificate (SOC) issued by the FAA. Though much of the new, combined airline is a rebranded CO—even the new operating certificate is essentially CO’s legacy certificate—the “Continental” name and call sign (along with United’s certificate) will cease to exist, at 6:00am [...]

Latin America’s New Giant: Which Alliance?

On Friday, Brazil’s largest airline TAM and neighboring rival, LAN, announced that they would merge their corporate entities in a KLM/Air France-type model. Each airline will maintain its existing brand, but its management and ownership will be one organization. This would create a South American giant, with LATAM Airlines being the name of the new [...]

At Last, a Passenger Bill of Rights

The US Department of Transportation today announced what has been called by many advocates as a ‘Passenger Bill of Rights’, placing a time limit for domestic flights that airlines may hold passengers on board without food and on the tarmac before takeoff. Here at AirlineCity, we applaud this executive action (which does not require the [...]

USDOT Awards New Brazil Routes

Today, the US Department of Transportation approved American Airlines’ and Delta Airlines’ applications for new service into Brazil.  This is a follow up on our previous post on US-Brazil. Service on the newly available 21 frequencies for US carriers is planned as follows: –AA daily service Miami-Salvador-Recife-Miami (eff Nov 02) –AA 3x weekly service Miami-Belo [...]

Northeast Brazil – US Update

Itapua Beach in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil’s Northeast. If their request pending before the US Department of Transportation is approved, which seems likely, then American Airlines will offer daily non-stop service to this city from Miami beginning this November. A few days ago we wrote about the new routes that airlines have applied for with [...]

Brazil and the Amazon

Getting to Brazil and around the country is becoming easier, as a lot has been happening on the Brazilian front lately. First, a new airline and the intentions for a second, have been announced, and by successful industry veterans. Second, the US-Brazil bilateral has been approved, increasing the number of weekly flights from each country [...]

The Obsession with Mergers

Merger madness is in the air, with rumors that Delta and Northwest and close to making a move, with other discussions pointing towards a Delta-United or a Continental-United combo. Delta is a hungry for a merger, and if successful, other airlines may follow suit. United is also appears keen on a merger with someone. But [...]

TAAG Angola Airlines

I was just listening to some very fine music from 1960′s Angola, and thought that for today’s article, I would post an Angola-related photo. And what could be more appropriate for AirlineCity than an image of the national carrier? Here’s a shot I took of a TAAG 747 at Lisbon (LIS) in February 2006. Unfortunately, [...]

US Domestic Flights Arriving Late More than 80% of the Time

Today we present the list of flights that arrived late (defined as arriving late at least 15 minutes) more than 80 percent of the time, for the month of November 2007. Twelve flights make the list. And what do they all have in common? Not surprisingly, a New York City airport. Of the 12 flights, [...]

NASA’s Disappointing Release of Data

On Monday, NASA released the data from its three-year, $11.5MM “National Aviation Operations Monitoring System” study, with information from 24,000 interviews with airline pilots. However, the data was only released as a response to Congressional pressure, and not in the interest of improving aviation safety in the United States. As such, NASA ensured that all [...]


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