Airports & Networks

World Routes, The World Route Development Forum , is the largest and most important commercial aviation networking forum of its kind bringing together

Voting has now closed for the World Routes Awards 2013and the shortlisted airports and destinations were announced earlier this week. Created in 1997

Las Vegas is as recognisable as it is unique, located in the Nevada desert the destination offers an experience like no other, from world famous shows

Airbus will help China modernize its air traffic management (ATM) system and implement the latest ATM technologies.

Edinburgh Airport in Scotland is set to launch a five-year, £150 million ($235 million) expansion program to cope with anticipated passenger growth.

The growth trend at Dubai International Airport continues unabated, with passenger numbers reaching record levels during the first half of 2013. A total of 32.6 million passengers passed through the airport in the January-June period, the highest number handled in a six-month period in the history of the airport, according to Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) president Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Swiss International Air Lines is evaluating establishing its own terminal at its Zurich Airport hub to gain more independence from airport operator Flughafen Zurich AG.

Fraport Twin Star Airport Management, which is majority-owned by Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport, has officially inaugurated a new passenger terminal at Bulgaria’s Varna Airport.

Prague Vaclav Havel Airport has signed a collaboration agreement with Seoul Incheon International Airport aimed at developing new connections between

A consortium of South Korean companies, headed up by Incheon International Airport Corp., has been selected as the preferred bidder to build and operate a second international airport to serve Myanmar capital Yangon. The Hanthawaddy International Airport will be built 48 miles northeast of Yangon at a cost of $11 billion.

UAE carrier RAK Airways is increasing the frequency of its services to Bangladesh capital Dhaka and both Peshawar and Lahore in Pakistan.

Airbus Military has completed an important set of trials of the A400M new generation airlifter, demonstrating the aircraft's excellent performance on gravel runways.

Serving over 33.2 million passengers in 2012 - almost twice as many as Vancouver International Airport - Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has confirmed it will introduce its Airbus A380 on its route between its Singapore Changi Airport hub and Shanghai Pu Dong

Latvian national carrier airBaltic is in discussions to launch a new direct air service between Riga and Aberdeen, the airline has revealed as the

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Lithuanian start-up carrier Air Lituanica is to expand its network and introduce new flights to Munich, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic later this

The new passenger terminal at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport in Mauritius was inaugurated in an official ceremony on Friday.

United Airlines last week applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to begin a non-stop service linking the airline’s San

Long-haul, low-cost carrier, AirAsia X is to increase its current flights from Kuala Lumpur to the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to

United Airlines has applied to the US Department of Transportation for authority to operate flights between San Francisco and Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, starting next year.

Airberlin will launch additional flights to Antalya on the Turkish Riviera owing to the political unrest in Egypt.

Briefs from the September 2, 2013 issue of ATW's Skypaths

First-half traffic in the Functional Airspace Block Central Europe (FABEC) was far below levels forecast in the FABEC Performance Plan for 2012-2014.