African low-cost start-up Fastjet will launch international services Oct. 18, with a flight from Dar es Salaam’s Julius Nyerere International Airport in Tanzania to Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa.
The European Union’s Council for Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) has agreed to extend the mandate of the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking (JU) until Dec. 31 2024, pending consultation with the European Parliament.
Chinese construction and engineering company Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) will be one of a group of new investors in a development joint venture (JV) at Manchester Airport.
China’s privately owned Juneyao Airlines has announced it will open two cross-strait routes— 3X-weekly Shanghai-Kaohsiung service on Nov. 1 and 5X-weekly Shanghai-Taipei service on Dec. 1.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways and Latvia-based airBaltic have signed a codeshare agreement and will launch 4X-weekly Riga-Abu Dhabi services from Dec. 16, using an Etihad Airbus A319.