Southwest Airlines has no official stance on the American Airlines-US Airways merger, but the low-cost carrier (LCC) wants to have a stronger presence at Washington National Airport (DCA) and is opposed to a merged American-US Airways controlling two-thirds of DCA’s slots.
Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will step up its presence in Poland with the announcement of its first two domestic Polish routes—daily services from Warsaw Modlin to Gdansk and Wroclaw—beginning March 2014.
Fly-Sax, the Kenyan safari and private charter airline, is to launch a new international route to the Union of the Comoros. Flights between Nairobi and Moroni, the capital of the islands, will start tomorrow.
Aviation fire and rescue specialists from Africa are being invited to Dubai from December 10-11, as the UAE city hosts the global Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting event.