Airports & Networks

British Airways (BA) is to launch scheduled long-haul passenger flights with its new Boeing 787 Dreamliners on September 1, 2013 on the route between

Bahrain’s national carrier, Gulf Air, will introduce an extra rotation on its flights to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, increasing capacity on the route by

Air New Zealand, the launch customer for the new larger Boeing 787-9 variant of the Dreamliner, has confirmed it will initially deploy the jets on its

The backers of AirAsia Japan have revealed they are to end their joint venture although the carrier will continue to operate until the end of October

All Nippon Airways parent ANA Holdings is ending its partnership with AirAsia and dissolving AirAsia Japan, their low-cost carrier joint venture.

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.

The US Transportation Department has proposed new or expanded US carrier rights from Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit and Charlotte to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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.

Finnair began summer Helsinki-Hanoi and –Xi’an 3X-weekly service.

Kenya Airways has doubled the frequency of flights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,ahead of this year's Hajj season.

The governments of the UK and Malaysia have agreed a deal to end restrictions on flights between the two countries. The former bilateral deal will be

Fast-expanding United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier flydubai is to introduce a two-class product on selected flights from the final quarter of

Delta Air Lines has closed on its acquisition of a 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways, purchased from Singapore Airlines for $360 million, and the two carriers detailed initial codesharing to start July 3.

Qatar Airways’ CEO Akbar Al Baker is pushing for more French route rights, arguing that it would be beneficial for local rival Air France.

Thomas Cook Airlines Group (TCAG) is looking to grow its long-haul activities over the coming years and has selected the Route Exchange, the online

Finnair will continue its Helsinki-Tel Aviv service into the winter season as the service has been well received.

Emirates SkyCargo introduces daily Dubai-Clark International Airport, the Philippines service with Boeing 777-300ERs beginning October 1.

Briefs from the June 24, 2013 issue of ATW's Skypaths

Brazil’s GOL said it will reduce domestic capacity 9% for the full-year 2013 compared to 2012. The move is sign of the persistent demand weakness impacting the Brazilian airline market.

WestJet Encore, the new turboprop regional affiliate of Calgary-based low-cost carrier WestJet, launched operations Monday.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has given the go-ahead for the launch of China Southern subsidiary Henan Airlines Co. as the regulator loosens its grip on new entrants in the domestic airline industry.

Air France begins summer service on Paris Charles de Gaulle-Montevideo 5X-weekly, and –Kuala Lumpur 3X-weekly. WestJet will begin service with Encore on June 24 opening new routes to Fort St. John and Nanaimo, British Columbia; Brandon, Manitoba service begins Sept. 3. Volarisbegan 4X-weekly Mexico City-Mazatlán service. Icelandair began seasonal 2X-weekly Reykjavik-St. Petersburg and -Zurich service.

US majors American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and US Airways are all likely to share new traffic rights to São Paulo over the next two years as part of