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Metropolitan Airport News
Produced by a team of aviation professionals and enthusiasts, our mission is to inform and update the more than 68,000 employees who work on the metropolitan New York airport properties, as well as the many others that provide goods and services in the surrounding communities.
The New Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport and EVA Air have announced a partnership for the premium airline to operate out of the world-class terminal. The New Terminal One is currently under construction, with its first gates scheduled to open in 2026, in partnership with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey as part of the agency’s $19 billion transformation of JFK Airport. EVA Air, one of only 10 Skytrax 5-star airlines globally, currently operates at Terminal 1. When it opens, its operations will transition seamlessly to the New Terminal One, enabling the award-winning airline to offer an unmatched travel experience for guests…
United announced it is expanding its leading global route network, adding new non-stop flights between New York/Newark-Marrakesh, Morocco; Tokyo/Narita-Cebu, Philippines and Houston-Medellin, Colombia. United will also increase flying to popular destinations across the globe including Hong Kong; Seoul, South Korea and Porto, Portugal. Additionally, the airline will add four weekly flights between Los Angeles and Shanghai as the Chinese and U.S. governments recently agreed to increase flights between the two countries*. United now has the largest and most diversified international route network among U.S. airlines, offering non-stop service to 134 international destinations across 67 countries. United offers flights to more destinations across the Atlantic and Pacific than all U.S. carriers combined. In addition to…
Jettainer has appointed Thorsten Riekert as Chief Commercial Officer. In this newly created position, the distinguished Jettainer management team member with in-depth knowledge of the aviation industry will be responsible for Jettainer’s commercial strategy aiming at advancing the company’s global growth trajectory. The appointment of Thorsten Riekert to Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) is an integral part of Jettainer’s strategic reorganization. This new organization emphasizes the company’s commitment to customer-centricity, future readiness, and market leadership. The first measure was to set up a structure with General Managers designed to facilitate direct customer relationships in the regions, respond to their specific needs,…
After the airfreight market recorded high freight rates from 2020 until 2022 due to low capacities as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, these normalized last year as expected. Lufthansa Cargo was able to achieve significantly higher average yields than before the start of the coronavirus pandemic despite increased capacities in the market. Lufthansa Cargo generated an adjusted EBIT of 219 million euros (previous year: 1.6 billion euros). After freight rates normalized following the end of the coronavirus pandemic, revenue fell by 36 percent. Overall, sales of 7.5 billion freight ton-kilometers last year were slightly higher than in the previous…
SWISS and the Lufthansa Group have embarked on a strategic partnership with the Swiss-based Climeworks company. Climeworks has developed an innovative technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air. In teaming up with Climeworks, SWISS is supporting the scaling up of this key technology for the aviation sector. At the same time, SWISS is making a further contribution to promoting Swiss innovation. The new collaboration supplements SWISS and the Lufthansa Group’s long-standing involvement in innovative technologies to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the airline industry and its flight operations. Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and the Lufthansa Group have…
With effect from May 1, 2024, the presently three-member top management body will be expanded with the addition of a Chief Operating Officer. The enlargement is intended to give greater weight to the company’s core activity. Oliver Buchhofer, who is presently Head of Operations, has been appointed to the new COO position. SWISS has also appointed a new Chief Financial Officer. Dennis Weber, who is presently Head of Investor Relations at Lufthansa Group, will assume his new SWISS CFO duties on May 1, 2024. He succeeds Markus Binkert, who will leave the company at the end of May. Swiss International…
Today, JetBlue announced that it has reached an agreement with Spirit Airlines to terminate their July 2022 merger agreement. Although both companies continue to believe in the procompetitive benefits of the combination, JetBlue and Spirit mutually agreed that terminating is the best path forward for both companies as required closing conditions, including receiving necessary legal and regulatory approvals, were unlikely to be met by the merger agreement’s outside date of July 24, 2024. “We believed this merger was worth pursuing because it would have unleashed a national low-fare, high-value competitor to the Big Four airlines,” said Joanna Geraghty, chief executive…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg today announced a new proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that would ensure airline passengers who use wheelchairs can travel safely and with dignity. The proposed rule would require that airlines meet rigorous standards for accommodating passengers with disabilities safely and with dignity. The proposal will set new standards for prompt, safe, and dignified assistance, mandate enhanced training for airline employees and contractors who physically assist passengers with disabilities and handle passengers’ wheelchairs and specify actions that airlines must take to protect passengers when a wheelchair is damaged during transport. Notably, the…
JetBlue and Empire State Development marked a significant milestone yesterday as they unveiled the newly rebranded Skywalk at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) Terminal 5 in New York. The Skywalk serves as a crucial link within Terminal 5, seamlessly connecting millions of travelers to and from parking garages, AirTrain services, and the broader NYC metro area to the heart of JetBlue’s operations at JFK. The redesign and installation of the updated Skywalk were generously funded by Empire State Development, further underscoring the state’s commitment to enhancing travel experiences in partnership with JetBlue. The revitalized Skywalk, from its design to…
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project one of the conditional winners in its fourth offshore wind solicitation round. The award is an important milestone for the advancement of the project, which can deliver 810 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to New York. An already highly mature offshore wind project, Empire Wind 1 targets to deliver first power to New York in 2026. Equinor and NYSERDA will now negotiate an Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificate (OREC) Purchase and Sale Agreement, with contract execution expected within Q2 2024. “Today’s award is an important…