Airports & Networks

Rostekhnologii (Rostec) subsidiary TVK Russia has announced an investment contest for airport development at Ramenskoye Airfield to create a new airport for low-cost carriers (LCCs).

Russian and Czech aviation authorities will designate second carriers to begin services on the Moscow-Prague route during the IATA summer season 2014.

Airline Routes

Norwegian Air Shuttle will open a new base of operations in Madrid in summer 2014, its fifth Spanish base.

World Routes in Las Vegas was just over a month ago but now is the time for the route development community to begin planning for 2014! The Routes

In 2014 the 7thRoutes Americas will take place on 23-25 February in San Salvador, El Salvador at the Sheraton Presidente San Salvador which is ideally

Malaysia Airports is an experienced Host of Routes events having hosted the first three Routes Asia events and also World Routes in 2008 and in 2014

Routes’ 2014 calendar of events begins with Routes Americas in February and with registrations for all of next year’s events including the 20thWorld

Emirates will operate a daily service to Luanda, Angola's capital city, starting 1 December 2013 with the additionof four extra flights per week.

Routes News, the official publication of the World Route Development Forum, has launched a new Apple and Android app. The app, which is free and now

United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator, Emirates Airline, has revealed plans to add almost 1,800 seats per week on its route between Dubai and Munich as

Russia may ask for seventh freedom rights between points in the Czech Republic and other European Union (EU) member states for fulfilling the agreed-upon principles of modernizing trans-Siberian routes.

The Heathrow Hub consortium is promoting what it describes as “the plan for a quieter [London] Heathrow [Airport] expansion that isn’t being heard.”

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic have announced plans to align their schedules from next summer and co-locate some services at Heathrow’s Terminal 3.

Overall worldwide airport passenger traffic increased 4.1% year-over-year in September, down 0.7 point from August, Airports Council International (ACI) has reported.

The Thames Estuary Research and Development Co. (TESTRAD) has unveiled plans for a London Britannia Airport—a six runway, 24-hour airport complex proposed for development in the Thames Estuary.

Airline Routes

The global aircraft rescue and fire fighting conference - ARFF 2013 has been taking place at the Oberoi Hotel in Dubai yesterday and today having opened with key messages aimed to ensure the world's airports are ready to deal with aircraft accidents and keep air travel safe.

Thales signed a contract with the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) for the modernisation of Iraqi airspace.

Jetex Flight Support has entered into an agreement with Bentley Motors Middle East to offer chauffeured luxury car transportation at the company's new FBO at Dubai World Central.

South African Airways (SAA) has closed reservations this week for its non-stop link between Johannesburg and the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways have outlined details of a new joint venture flight schedule beginning summer 2014, aligning their

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said Monday that all Philippine airports have resumed operations, except for Tacloban, which is limiting operations to turboprop aircraft.

Philippine Airlines’ regional low-cost subsidiary, PAL Express (PALex) has launched long-haul operations with flights between Manila and Dubai.

London Heathrow Airport has unveiled plans to rank airlines based on their noise performance and publish the league table each quarter.