Nearly a decade after Hank Scott founded Molon Labe with the goal of disrupting the economy seating market passengers will finally get to fly on the company's staggered seat design. Some 20 ship sets of…
Icelandair comes up short on revenue, loses its…
Icelandair faces a significant revenue shortfall in 2018 owing to growing competition. The parent company of the airline also needs to find a new CEO. Björgólfur Jóhannsson took full responsibility for the missed numbers and…
New interiors, more wifi coming to LATAM
LATAM is set to retrofit more than 200 aircraft as part of a major update to its fleet. The carrier will invest $400 million to refresh the interiors on both long-haul and short-haul planes covering…
Best of Farnborough 2018: Embraer’s big win
With more than 1,000 aircraft ordered (or, more commonly, mentioned in memoranda) at the 2018 iteration of the Farnborough International Airshow there are plenty of orders to consider significant. This year there are just a…
Major expansion coming for Delta Premium Select
Passengers won't pay for more space on planes. This is the commonly accepted mantra and driving logic behind the ongoing "densification" efforts to squeeze more seats onto planes. And, for the most part, that's proven…
JetBlue Grows Up with A220 order: Big shoes…
JetBlue's move to dump the Embraer E190 fleet in favor of the Bombardier CSeries newly branded Airbus A220 comes as a surprise only in terms of timing. The carrier's interest in a replacement for the E190s is…
JetBlue takes the A220, refreshing its smaller aircraft…
JetBlue signed on as the very first customer for the newly renamed Airbus A220-300, formerly known as the CSeries CS300. The firm order for 60 frames, plus options for another 60, was announced just hours after…
Delta’s CRJ900 order brings Atmosphère, improved passenger experience…
Delta Air Lines is poised to upgrade its regional fleet. The carrier secured an order for twenty new Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft and will be the launch customer for the new "Atmosphère" cabin concept on the…
WestJet Plus goes legit with Recaro CL4710
Passengers flying in the premium WestJet Plus cabin on the carrier's 737 fleet are getting an upgrade. The company previously announced plans to convert from a "euro-biz" blocked middle seat model to a proper product…