Air Canada rouge begins service today with summer season Edinburgh, Venice, Athens and a number of Caribbean cities with two Airbus A319s and two Boeing 767-300ERs. Ten additional A319s will be added to the fleet by March 2014.
The Egyptian minister of civil aviation, Wael el-Maadawy, is to honour EgyptAir B737-800 crew on Flight number MS791/792 to Rome for their stance during the strike of the ground handling staff at Leonardo Da Vinci Airport on June 20.
London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle will be among Qatar Airways’ Airbus A380 launch routes, according to comments made by CEO Akbar Al Baker at the Paris Air Show.
Continuing the 2012 year-end trend of meager growth, overall global passenger traffic for April at the world’s airports grew only 1.8% during April 2012. Total freight traffic worldwide increased just 1% year over year.
Air New Zealand has confirmed destinations for its new fleet of 10 Boeing 787-9s, with the primary long-haul cities to be Shanghai and Tokyo, while mid-haul destinations will include Honolulu, Auckland, Perth and Papeete.