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Kingifhser Airlines has formally agreed to join the oneworld alliance and hopes to be a fully fledged member within the next 18 months. The carrier
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Oneworld member Finnair has announced that it will begin services to Stockholm's Bromma Airport, located 7km from the centre of Stockholm with good
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Skyteam member, China Southern has announced that it is expanding its existing service into Australia with the following changes. From October 31st it
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Hong Kong Airlines will add a second daily service to Sanya, China, effective June 28th. It currently operates its daily service with B737-800
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Sharjah based low cost carrier, Air Arabia has announced that it will begin new non-stop services to Iraq with a 2x weekly service to Najaf. It will
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Beijing international and Sydney Kingsford Smith airport have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together as 'sister airports'. The airports
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Jetstar plans to further expand its New Zealand operations by adding a seventh based A320 in the market later this year.The aircraft would have
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In the wake of a massive downturn in profit forecasts. Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd is set to reduce or cut services to Fiji and Phuket, newly appointed
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easyJet believes it has found a breakthrough to avoiding further widespread ash cloud disruption by investing £1 million in 'ash radars' which are
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The twice-weekly service, starting 9th July, operated with Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, will operate to Chicago via Anchorage. It will then fly
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By Richard Maslen
The world's eyes are currently on South Africa and its national carrier, South African Airways. SAA operates a mix of narrow-body and wide-body
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By Richard Maslen
Overview Izmir, affectionately known as 'The Pearl of the Aegean' and historically as Smyrna, is located in the third most populous city of Turkey and
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Newcastle is to get its first flights to New York after Jet2 announced special Christmas services. Flights went on sale on Thursday with prices from
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By Richard Maslen
Our sister publisher, AvNews gathers the latest route news from Latin America and the Caribbean. This week: Spirit Airlines expands in Colombia; Air
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By Richard Maslen
If you blinked and missed those pivotal route announcements this week, catch up with our compilation: Air Arabia Egypt is launched; Brisbane brings
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By Richard Maslen
One of Africa's largest carriers, Kenya Airways, mapped out its network plans at a Route Exchange Airline Requirement Briefing during Routes Africa in
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By Richard Maslen
The Routes Africa Strategy Forum provided African aviation leaders with a forum to tackle and debate the challenges of air service development in the
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By Richard Maslen
The Gulf region's carriers have established an exceptionally strong and ever more powerful hold on the fast growing Africa-China market. ASM's Gordon
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flydubai has made its inaugural flight to Lucknow - it's first Indian destination in the route network. The carrier will offer three flights a week to
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Afriqiyah Airways is to serve two new destinations from Tripoli: Milan Malpensa and Lyon from July. It will offer four weekly flights to Lyon from
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Air Arabia has formally opened its Egyptian division (Air Arabia Egypt) and begun its first flight to Khartoum, Sudan from its new Alexandria base
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Wataniya Airways has set off on its first flight from Kuwait to Vienna - its 11th new destination in the network. The airline's CEO, George Cooper
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Air France, KLM and the Jetstar Group of Airlines (Jetstar, Jetstar Asia/Valuair and Jetstar Pacific) have entered into a strategic interline
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Riga International airport has baked two cakes today - one to celebrate airBaltic's new Madrid service and the other to open the carrier's new service
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Latvia's national carrier, airBaltic today (Wednesday) began serving Madrid - the start of four weekly flights using its 737 aircraft. Pictured from
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