Icelandair introduced the Boeing 767 back into its passenger service last month, around ten years since the carrier last utilised the type on its scheduled route from its hub at Keflavik International Airport. It is using the aircraft into major European markets such as Amsterdam and London as well as to Boston, Chicago and New York in North America.
On first consideration, Tenerife might not seem the most logical host for Routes Africa 2016, but, as Routes News, investigates, the Continent is key to its development strategy of becoming a major trade hub.
Philippine visitors to Guam grew by 125 percent in March 2016, compared to the same month last year, latest data from the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) showed. This led to the second best March in Guam's tourism history, with 133,335 visitor arrivals – just a few notches behind March 2013 with 136,728 visitors recorded. Total visitor arrivals for March 2016 rose 0.8 percent year-on-year.
The dramatic collapse in the price of oil is helping to boost the bottom line of airlines but, ominously, the old adage says that what goes down will, inevitably, go up again. Routes News investigates.
Following years of losses, lack of investment and the consolidation of carriers, US airlines are once again making money and better positioning themselves for when the next downturn comes, as Routes News discovered.
During the Summit, the audience were invited to participate via the website sli.do. This technology is an audience interactive tool for meetings, events and conferences which allowed those in attendance at the Summit to ask questions and vote in polls. Altogether, there were 82 active participants.
Spanish carrier Air Europa is to further extend its network into South America during the winter 2016/2017 schedule with new links into Argentina and Ecuador and Routes events and consultancy ASM (Airport Strategy and Marketing) contributed to delivering one of these new long-haul flights.
With only 110 daily flights to Cuba on offer, some of the biggest players in the US market are fighting for the coveted spots. Thirteen carriers will go head to head for the slots, with American Airlines leading the requests, hoping to cater to the vast Cuban-American population of Miami
After a decades-long embargo that blocked Iran from forging ties with the rest of the world, the country is now planning a host of new connections, with local carriers also gearing up for new growth, Routes News discovered.
Following Turkish Airlines’ record results for 2015, which saw it break the billion dollar net profit margin, CMO Ahmet Olmustur tells Routes News its plans for the future and just how important Istanbul’s new airport will be.
A strong local economy and increasing demand for air travel is proving an ideal foundation for a revamped Vietnam Airlines to reach out to the region and beyond, reports Routes News magazine.
It seems there’s more than enough room in Budapest for Europe's rival low-cost carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air. Wizz Air CEO József Váradi and Ryanair CMO Kenny Jacobs share their plans to Routes News magazine.
Valencia, the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, believes it is an ideal year-round destination for the world’s airlines and regularly takes a presence at leading aviation and tourism events such as Routes Europe to highlight what it has to offer. And it appears that a story of over 300 days of sunshine a year is being understood by the world’s airlines.
The new airport will completely revolutionise not only travel for the residents of St Helena, but will boost tourism. Located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, more than 2,000 kilometres from the nearest major landmass. It is currently linked to the world by RMS St Helena which sails between the island and Cape Town, a five day adventure across, at times, rough seas, but which is due to retire from service in July.
The airline will offer the only non-stop flights between Vancouver and Delhi when it debuts the three times weekly route beginning October 20, 2016, in time for Diwali festivities. The service will be operated using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner equipment and will offer the fastest elapsed flying time into the India from Calgary, Edmonton and the US West Coast cities of Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles.
Have you wondered what enticed an airline to a certain destination? What the data says about demand on the city pair and connecting markets? What external factors may have influenced the airline in selecting a specific city pair? How this business case differs from others? Our new ‘Route Case’ offering will seek to provide the answers all within a single 20 minute meeting slot at our events.
With World Routes 2016 heading to Chengdu, China this September (24-27 September, 2016), you could be forgiven for thinking that the event is irrelevant for the Latin America and Caribbean regions.
Around a month after operations recommenced at Brussels Airport after the terrorist attacks of March 22, 2016, the number of passengers per flight has been rising faster than expected, so a new flight schedule has been drawn up to enable all passengers to leave in complete safety and comfort.
As the world’s first and leading provider of route development training, ASM has now been providing training courses for over 20 years. In 2016, ASM expanded their training programme and have added two new additional training courses.
Voting for the Routes Africa Marketing Awards will close one week from now – don’t miss out on the opportunity to have your say and place your vote before Friday 6th May.
The airport is developing a much closer relationship with the budget carrier and this has brought what was just a single route operation to and from Dublin just over a year or so ago, to an eight destination network, including flights revealed this week to Gdansk, Warsaw Modlin and Wroclaw.
