Air Canada is having second thoughts about launching its discount unit, dubbed "Air Canada Lite". It blames its pilots' contract, which limits a discount fleet to six aircraft unless the main fleet grows. Air Canada has scrapped all plans for capacity growth this year, which would leave Air Canada Lite too small to compete against discount rivals such as WestJet. Instead, Air Canada is raising the prospect of a joint venture with another low-cost airline.
Source: Airline Business
US airlines are working to get their operations back into gear after a global computer outage forced some carriers to halt all departures overnight.
Virgin Atlantic will drop its Shanghai service this winter after 25 years as it further cuts its Asia-Pacific network amid the longer flying times necessitated by not being able to overfly Russia.
Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation have signed a memorandum of understanding to create air taxi networks in and around cities in California served by the carrier.
