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A consumer has filed an official complaint with the United States Department of Transportation ( DOT) following a flight on Qatar Airways, asking the department to suspend American Airlines and Qatar Airways codeshare services due to the latter’s alleged malpractice against its customers.

Alaska Airlines has shared that it will begin ten new domestic and international routes from various airports across the United States in January, including four new connections from Sacramento, California.

When someone utters the words "Sin City", odds are that the place they're referring to is Las Vegas, Nevada. Since its rise in the 1950s, the Southwestern desert city (located in Clark County) has become synonymous as the American entertainment capital. Of all the activities to partake in the city, one is more synonymous than them all, and that is gambling.

Iberia has now extended the resumption of its seasonal Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) service from Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD) for a second time. Initially scheduled for January, the route was meant to see Airbus A321XLR service marking the second transatlantic route for the aircraft type that joined the Iberia fleet at the end of last year.

For the third year in a row, low-cost long-haul airline LEVEL will lease ACMI capacity to operate its summer service to New York JFK. In 2023 and 2024, the carrier opted for Wamos Air planes to service its Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) to New York JFK Airport(JFK) route. This year, the airline is switching to Iberojet and its modern Airbus A330-900neo aircraft.

Spirit Airlines entered into voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings on November 18, having previously entered several aircraft sale or sale-and-leaseback (SLB) agreements. Even then, the company’s short-term plans included deep capacity cuts, partly facilitated by the shedding of some of its assets, including aircraft.

Frontier Airlines has become another airline that has upgraded its Q4 2024 guidance ahead of the carrier's quarterly results release on February 7.

US carrier Southwest Airlines has a significant presence at Boston Logan Airport (BOS) in Massachusetts. The carrier has been flying out of the airport for fifteen years and operates to a range of domestic destinations from Gates 31A-35 on Pier A of Terminal B.

Iceland-based low-cost carrier PLAY has scheduled its latest changes to services across its network, which includes cuts on transatlantic and Europe-bound routes, such as the end of its flights to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD).

Cathay Pacific had a rather fruitful holiday season, carrying in excess of 100,000 passengers on eight separate days across the Group as a whole (including HK Express), as passenger demand peaked at the end of the year. These days fell in mid to late December between the 15th and the 31st, and were a welcome relief to a carrier that has had a difficult last few years navigating the post-COVID industry.

One of the fastest-growing airlines in the region is looking to expand into the United States this summer. Low-cost carrier Arajet flew over one million passengers last year across 16 countries from its two bases in the Dominican Republic. Now, Arajet is looking to create a hub in the region by launching flights to three destinations in the US.

Global business jet departures saw a boost in December after remaining flat for the majority of 2024. The increase in departures has been seen since the US elections, resulting in an increase of 7% compared to the previous December and a jump of more than a quarter over December 2019 numbers.

Alaska Airlines is the USA's fifth-largest carrier by flights. If its mainline and regional January 2025 network is considered, OAG data shows that it has an average of 1,117 daily flights (excluding the recent acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines by the Alaska Air Group).

On January 9, anger-inducing news broke that an amphibious Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper of the Canadian Province of Quebec had hit a drone violating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airspace restrictions and was unable to continue aiding aerial firefighting efforts around the Los Angeles, California megalopolis. This tragic incident highlights once again the need for drone pilots to be mindful of other aviators, especially first responder aviators.

Who doesn't love time travel? This is the concept of arriving at your destination airport before you have left, which is possible because the time zone change is greater than the block or scheduled time. It is particularly intriguing when applied to long-haul or transatlantic travel.

Big changes are afoot at the flag carrier of Argentina ahead of privatization and a potential full-fledged buy-out of the nationalized airline.

An Allegiant Air Airbus A319 was forced to return to Las Vegas after one of its engine indicator lights illuminated after takeoff. The aircraft landed safely back at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), and would remain grounded for almost four days before returning to the air.

* Updated 16:58 UTC 10/01/2025 with a comment from American Airlines *

This winter, the UK's airports have non-stop and one-stop international flights to 383 airports globally. Obviously, London is massively dominant—it has services to 378 of them.

Pakistan International Airlines has resumed flights to the European Union (EU), with the first flight following its ban in 2020 taking off from Islamabad to Paris on January 10.