Spanair Chairman Ferran Soriano said the airline failed to attract inward investment and consequently the regional government of northeastern Catalonia took the decision to stop providing funds to keep the airline operational. Spanair, whose hub was Barcelona airport, employed around 2,000 people and used the services of about 1,200 ground staff.   Spanair was Spain’s 4th largest airline.  Cain will [...]

MileagePlus, the loyalty program of the new United, will officially launch the 2012 program benefits on March 3, 2012. Over the coming days, MileagePlus and OnePass members will receive a merger update email directing them to login to a personalized preview of their 2012 status. The custom web page will contain a combination of messages [...]

As many as 2 million public workers are expected to join a one-day walkout on Wednesday, with airlines warning passengers arriving at London’s Heathrow and other airports that they could face significant delays at passport immigration as U.K. Border Agency staff is part of this strike.    Travelers leaving Britain will encounter problems too, as they may find the airport virtually paralyzed due to [...]

  2012 MileagePlus Program Update  Recently United announced the 2012 MileagePlus program details. Existing United MileagePlus and Continental OnePass members will continue to enjoy the benefits of their respective programs until the 2012 program takes effect late in the first quarter of 2012. MileagePlus is building a new technology system that will support the expanded membership base and broader [...]

ATLANTA, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, today announces a long term renewal with Denver-based Cain Travel.   The agreement also provides Cain Travel with a live version of the industry-leading Travelport Universal Desktop. This makes Cain Travel the first of Travelport’s U.S. customers to benefit from [...]

Sydney (CNN) — Australia’s Qantas Airways resumed flights Monday after a government labor board ordered it to end a dispute with its unions that grounded the airline over the weekend. The labor board gave the two sides three weeks to reach an agreement, with a possible three-week extension if talks were making progress. Cain will [...]

Australian airline Qantas grounded all its aircraft Saturday in response to a labor dispute, in a step that will disrupt travel for thousands of people. Flights in the air will complete those journeys, the airline said in a statement, but there will be no further domestic or international departures worldwide. The industrial action involves three [...]

by Associated Press SAO PAULO — Workers at some of Brazil’s busiest airports say they will go on strike Thursday and Friday to protest the government’s plan to privatize their operations. The workers labor union voted in favor of the strike on Monday night. They said in a statement released Tuesday that they would stop [...]

Canada’s Minister of Labour, the Hon. Lisa Raitt, is referring the current impasse resulting from CUPE’s failure to ratify a tentative agreement to the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). The Minister further confirmed that no strike or lockout action can take place while the CIRB is considering the matter thereby effectively cancelling the strike deadline [...]

Air Canada has been advised by CUPE, the union representing the airline’s 6,800 flight attendants, that the new tentative agreement reached by the Company and the union’s negotiating committee on September 20, 2011 was not ratified by the union membership. Subsequently, Air Canada has been given a strike notice by CUPE confirming the union’s intention [...]