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Routes Europe 2014 will take place in Marseille, the second largest city in France after Paris and the regional capital of Southern France. Marseille

With the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games just around the corner, Brazil is embarking on three years of excitement. This is one of the most

The spotlight is not only ready to shine on the World Cup in Latin American next year; it is also beginning to shine on the Latin American aviation market. The global aviation market is starting to wake up to the size of the opportunity in the Latin America, which was again highlighted by the latest figures from Airbus and IATA.

UK pension fund Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, is set to acquire a 49.9% non-controlling stake in The Airline Group, which is a 41.9% shareholder in UK air navigation services provider NATS.

Russia’s Red Wings Airlines, which relaunched flights in June, has moved from Moscow Vnukovo to Domodedovo Airport and reopened scheduled flights to the Russian cities of Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Mineralnye Vody, Makhachkala and Krasnodar.

Lufthansa Cargo launched its first Boeing 777F scheduled flight from Frankfurt to New York JFK and Atlanta Nov. 19.

Source: Airports Council International

Rapid air traffic growth in Indonesia is leading to infrastructure constraints and congestion that pose a bigger threat than low-cost carrier (LCC) competition, the head of Garuda Indonesia said Friday.

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.

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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.

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