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The social-media platform saved frustrated fliers hours last summer as a customer-service workaround. Air France, KLM have pulled back. The social-media platform saved frustrated fliers hours last summer as a customer-service workaround. Air France, KLM have pulled back. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to…

A year ago, many airlines were still burning through cash as some countries were slow to remove coronavirus-related travel restrictions. Now, with borders fully open, some of those carriers are posting big profits. “This is a huge turnaround considering the massive losses we were facing just 12 months ago,” Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce said. The results are being driven by a combination of pent-up demand from consumers eager to travel after being stymied by…

The world’s biggest passenger airliners—many of which had been earmarked for the scrapyard—are being brought back into service as carriers rush to restore long-haul air travel.Aircraft lessors said airlines are clamoring for their once-parked fleets of big jets, which typically each ferry hundreds of passengers on long-distance routes. The demand is limiting availability and pushing up the prices of rentals.  The wait for new aircraft, meanwhile, stretches for years. Sought-after wide-body planes, which contain seats…

Germany’s Deutsche Lufthansa AG DLAKY 5.13% said it had submitted a bid to buy a stake in ITA Airways, the Italian carrier formerly known as Alitalia, in a bet on the continued recovery in air travel. Lufthansa said Wednesday it was seeking exclusive talks with the Italian government to initially acquire a minority stake in ITA Airways, with an option to buy the remaining shares at a later date. The move comes after a consortium…

The Southwest Airlines Co. meltdown that stranded thousands of passengers during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year exposed a major industry shortcoming: crew-scheduling technology that was largely built for a bygone era and is due for a major overhaul. During the winter storm, amid a huge volume of changes to crew schedules to work through, SkySolver couldn’t handle the task of matching crew members and which flights they should work, executives of the Dallas-based carrier said.…

Airfares are sky high, and airline executives expect them to stay that way.Airlines are battling surging costs for fuel and labor. Meanwhile, worker shortages and delayed plane deliveries are preventing them from adding more flights when more people want to fly. The consumer-price index for airfare was up 43% in September from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Ticket prices were still depressed last year, but airfares in the CPI were up 8% from September 2019, according to Airlines for America, a…

Airlines are forging new partnerships with each other to help recover financially from the pandemic, leaving travelers with more hurdles to navigate.SkyTeam announced last week that Virgin Atlantic will be joining the airline alliance next year. The move will make Virgin Atlantic the first U.K.-based airline to join the alliance led by Delta Air Lines, Air France and KLM. Several other efforts are also under way, including a joint venture between Delta and LATAM Airlines…

For the giants of ocean trade, big ships aren’t enough anymore; they need planes, too. The pandemic, which accelerated the shift toward online shopping, followed by post-lockdown demand and now the war in Ukraine, scrambled the intricate ballet that shipping companies rely on both at sea and in port to deliver goods on time. Port congestion has forced ships to wait at anchor for weeks. A lack of workers to load and unload ships has further slowed deliveries. Empty containers have piled up in places with…

ITA Airways launched operations in October last year with less than half of Alitalia’s fleet. Photo: patrick t. fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

LONDON—KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it would cut as many as about 2,000 flights from its schedule to help ease congestion at its main airport, the latest move by a European airline to rightsize summer operations amid an industrywide labor shortfall. The airline said Friday it would scrap between 10 and 20 return flights a day through Aug. 28, representing at least about 1,000 trips over the next two months. KLM is also restricting ticket sales for its remaining available seats on…