Retail glamour and innovation have touched down at Dubai International; Maritime Mercantile International (MMI) and Emirates Leisure Retail (ELR), Dubai-based subsidiaries of the Emirates Group, have launched all six of their new travel retail innovations developed specifically for Dubai International's Concourse A.
Cavotec has won a multi-million dollar package of orders from Japanese industrial conglomerate ShinMaywa, for integrated ground support equipment for airports in Egypt and Vietnam.
Cavotec has won a multi-million dollar package of orders from Japanese industrial conglomerate ShinMaywa, for integrated ground support equipment for airports in Egypt and Vietnam.
African low-cost airline Fastjet has launched a mobile payment solution with Tanzanian telecommunications company Vodacom, which will enable Fastjet customers to buy airline tickets using their mobile phones.
Air Berlin is expanding codesharing activities with Etihad Airways via Abu Dhabi to Chengdu, Beijing and Shanghai, as well to Tokyo Narita and Nagoya. It will launch daily Berlin service to Sofia and Bucharest Otopeni Jan 28. Finnair will operate 3X-weekly Helsinki-Xi’an service June 14-Oct. 26. Loganair will operate weekly Norwich-Guernsey service April 28-Sept. 29.
Air Berlin will launch 3X-weekly Berlin-Chicago service March 23, increasing to 5X-weekly in May 2013. Air Berlin and American Airlines have also expanded their codeshare to include 43 new connecting flights within the USA and one of the daily Dusseldorf-Chicago flights. This will boost the codeshare to a total of 99 routes. Emirates added a second Airbus A380 on 2X-daily New York JFK-Dubai service, increasing capacity by approximately 2,000 seats/week.
Abdul Aziz Al Noaimi, chairman of the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, has announced the New Doha International Airport (NDIA) will be renamed as Hamad International Airport, the Peninsula has reported.
Qatar Airways has embarked on its Boeing 787 European expansion with the deployment of the next generation aircraft on three additional routes – Munich, Zurich and Frankfurt.