Routes 360 Headlines: Key Stories Of The Week (W/C December 16, 2024)
Aviation Week's Routes 360 Headlines on Wednesday 18 December 2024 covers the latest notable developments and key insights from Routes 360 members.
More flight connections now exist between China and Austria: Hainan Airlines, is offering flights to connect Vienna Airport with Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, effective immediately. For the first time, it will be possible to directly access this Chinese region from Vienna.
On December 10, 2024, the Mongolian national airline MIAT officially launched a direct flight from Ulaanbaatar to Ho Chi Minh City. This new route will operate twice a week, with scheduled flights every Tuesday and Friday.
From 1 August 2025, marabu will fly twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, from NUE to Kavala. This route is of particular importance for Nuremberg, as Kavala is a twin city of Nuremberg. This year, this town twinning celebrated its 25th anniversary.
At 1:50 AM on December 7, Juneyao Airlines flight HO1329 from Shanghai, China, safely landed at Noi Bai International Airport, officially inaugurating the regular commercial round-trip route between Shanghai and Hanoi.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) will get new terminals and increased capacity to accommodate the ever-increasing number of passengers, says the Transport Ministry.
It said several terminal expansion projects based on the KLIA Masterplan are being considered through Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB).
Vienna Airport welcomes a new carrier: Starting 3rd of December 2024, SKY express links Vienna with Athens. The airline is currently growing quickly in Greece, and since today is represented at Vienna Airport with a new, direct all-year-round flight connection.
1.90 million passengers travelled via BER in November
Last month, 1.9 million passengers travelled via BER. This is an increase of 8.4 per cent compared to November 2023, when around 1.75 million passengers used the airport. The busiest day of the month was 3 November, the last Sunday of the school holidays, with 87,630 passengers.
This year, Santa flew in directly from Alicante, Spain—a city whose patron saint is Saint Nicholas and which has a direct air connection with Łódź. Flights between Łódź and Alicante operate twice a week, and Santa took advantage of this route to reach the children of Łódź.
The 1.4 million passengers set to travel through Dublin Airport this Christmas will be welcomed by the airport's biggest ever festive entertainment programme with dozens of local choirs and musical acts lined up to perform in the terminals.
Another huge airport coming in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – living up to the hype
Air transportation in the Middle East has been developing rapidly and the Gulf area has become the epicentre of activity, its main airports being leaders in facilitating one-change travel globally, while aiding the brisk development of tourism at home.
Turkish Airlines SWOT: profitable growth continues, network balance improves
On 29-Nov-2024 Turkish Airlines (THY) added Sydney to its network (via Kuala Lumpur) - its second destination in Australia, after launching services to Melbourne (via Singapore).
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