SKY, a Chilean-based low-cost carrier, has taken delivery of its first A321neo leased from Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL), becoming the first airline in Chile to operate the A321neo. SKY’s A321neo aircraft are powered by CFM Leap-1A engines and can seat up to 238 passengers in a two-class layout. SKY is the first airline in […]
Swoop – Canada’s new Low Cost Carrier – unveiled their official crew uniforms on June 14th and with only one week to go until Swoop’s June 20, 2018 inaugural flight from Hamilton, ON to Abbotsford, BC, the unveiling of the Swoop uniforms has been much anticipated. Swoop were officially granted its air operating certificate (AOC) […]
Who does not want to tap the growing demand for air travel in Asia these days? Particularly, its booming budget travel market. You may have heard about the latest airline to join the competition, when on May 14, 2018, Japan Airlines (JAL) announced it is going to launch a brand-new low-cost carrier business for the […]
LATAM Airlines announced plans to start a low cost carrier (LCC) in Chile with possible expansion to Argentina. The preliminary application is already in the hands of the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC), the Chilean civil aviation authority, according to local paper El Mercurio. LATAM, the company born of the fusion of Chilean LAN […]
A national low-cost carrier, the creation of which was announced in Ukraine in 2017, is doomed to fail, the president of Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) Yuri Miroshnikov, told Ukrainian news portal CFTS on November 24. “From a professional point of view, a full-fledged Ukrainian national air carrier is not possible, since two critically important conditions […]
