United's cost of regional service will be mostly prohibitive unless regional carriers are able to reduce costs by 30% to compete with the United's own product.
At least five people were killed and 20 others were injured when an Angara Airlines passenger plane crashed into a river in Siberia Monday morning, the regional airline confirmed. It is feared the death toll could rise.
Speaking at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Beijing on Monday, JetBlue CEO David Barger revealed that the airline is looking into future widebody expansion utilizing either the Airbus A350 XWB or the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.