Airline Guys

02/23/2024

If you haven’t watched this documentary on PBS yet, stop what you’re doing and check it out! Informative. Amazing footage of a time long gone. And the Casey Grant is in it!

At a time when single women were unable to order a drink or eat alone in a restaurant, forbidden to own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control...

11/10/2023

Should You Tip Flight Attendants? What are your thoughts?

Here's a reminder that a simple "thank you" is much appreciated.

12/29/2022

ATTN : Aviation fans find unusual holiday gifts at Delta Air Lines' surplus sale. Delta Flight Museum

Aviation fans got some of their holiday shopping done at Delta's monthly surplus sale. Shoppers were able to take home first-class seats, fan blades and even an infant life jacket to tuck under the tree. Kris Van Cleave has more.

02/07/2022

Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines to merge:

Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines have agreed to merge, creating what would become the fifth largest airline in the country.

01/09/2021

After all these years, the made it back home to the Delta Flight Museum. She is a beauty. Thank you Deon Winston for these incredible images.

06/25/2020

Here’s to brighter days 🛫 🌈 Delta Flight Museum Delta Air Lines

06/09/2020

Decisions. Decisions.

Good luck to all our airline friends in your decision.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/06/09/airline-employees-wrestle-with-voluntary-separation-leave.html

Airline employees have been left to debate whether to take buyouts or early retirement or risk getting laid off on Oct. 1.

06/09/2020

Yes please! Maybe this will temporarily ease your mind about not being on a plane ;-) Hurry up July! Biscoff Cookies Biscoff
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cookie-butter-ice-cream-lotus-175600137.html

Cookie dough is so last season, amirite?

05/31/2020

Major kudos to American Airlines CEO Doug Parker. During this difficult time it is a good thing to see leaders, and others, taking an active role in understanding someone else’s point of view. We need more of this.

https://viewfromthewing.com/doug-parker-flies-southwest-airlines-and-gets-into-a-conversation-about-race/

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker was flying Southwest Airlines out of Dallas to end the week, an airline he's called 'the cattle car'. A flight attendant notices the book he brought on board, but not who he is. He's not her CEO, after all. Parker was reading White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For Wh...

05/27/2020

Kirm and Claudia: What do you do when you can’t go fly? You go for a bike ride.

05/26/2020

Delta Air Lines will pay LATAM Airlines $62 million for cancelling their agreement for Delta to purchase four of LATAM’s already delivered Airbus A350 aircraft, LATAM said in a court filing.

As part of new agreement, LATAM gained protection Delta would not use LATAM’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to cancel the joint-venture they signed earlier this month.

Delta further agreed to not to exercise termination rights…in the event that LATAM were to file for Chapter 11.

Delta Air Lines and LATAM have modified their partnership agreement as Latin America’s largest airline group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.

05/26/2020

LATAM Airlines affiliates in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina aren’t part of the bankruptcy case, which was filed in the Southern District of New York.

Still, the impact will be felt widely, with Santiago-based Latam previously serving more than 70 million passengers a year on more than 300 aircraft. It also carried more than $7 billion of debt.

(Bloomberg) -- Latam Airlines Group SA, Latin America’s largest air carrier, sought bankruptcy court protection in New York after the Covid-19 pandemic grounded flights across the region.The Chapter 11 petition allows Latam to keep operating while the Chilean carrier works out a plan to pay credit...

05/25/2020

Goodbye Delta Air Lines Mad Dogs 👋🏾

The jet served the likes of American, Delta, TWA, and Alaska Airlines but is now being retired in favor of more efficient planes.

05/21/2020

"At Qatar Airways, we have introduced these additional safety measures onboard our flights to ensure the continued health and wellbeing of our passengers and cabin crew, and to limit the spread of coronavirus," says Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker.

Cabin crew: How would you feel wearing a hazmat suit at work?

All cabin crew for Qatar Airways will wear hazmat suits over their uniforms from now on, while passengers will be required to wear face masks or coverings from May 25.

05/20/2020

“We hope that most of the headcount changes that we’re going to need are going to be achieved through these voluntary programs,” Paul Jacobson CFO Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines plans to cut its payroll through voluntary separations and early retirements.

05/20/2020

“What we have to do is we have to right-size the airline from a cost perspective, to make sure that what we find next year is cash positive," Kerr said. "We are going to look at all of this staffing in the fall, all the staffing next year.” Derek Kerr CFO American Airlines

The return of the “right-size” term signals how airlines are going to cut down on massive costs with a fraction of the customers they had a year ago. Its use was common in the industry during the Great Recession and was synonymous with layoffs, pay cuts and slashed benefits.

American Airlines will need to “right-size” the company heading into fall and 2021 as it deals with the continuing damage to air travel from the COVID-19...

05/20/2020

Today Air France announced it is retiring its fleet of 9 Airbus A380s. The changes take effect immediately.

If you haven’t flown on an A380 you’d better get to stepping. The opportunities are dwindling.

Airbus SE’s A380 superjumbo is proving to be too big to survive in many airline fleets after the coronavirus.

05/20/2020

Today United welcomed its new CEO Scott Kirby. Here Scott speaks about the challenges facing the company during the pandemic and charting a path forward.

Scott Kirby, United Airlines CEO, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss safety practices on airplanes amid Covid-19, government aid to the airlines, the hit to travel demand, working to avoid laying off employees, recovering from the crisis and more.