UK scheduled leisure airline Monarch Airlines (ZB) will set up a base at the East Midlands Airport (EMA), hub of struggling low-cost carrier bmibaby, which new owner International Airlines Group has said it may close if no buyer is found by Sept. 10
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced today the preferred bidder for the construction of the Midfield Terminal Building (MTB), with the consortium of CCC, TAV and Arabtec being selected.
Spanish IT specialist Indra will help Kenya’s air navigation services provider, Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), modernize terminal operations at the country’s two international gateways: Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta and Mombasa’s Moi airports.
Turkish Airlines will launch 4X-weekly Istanbul Ataturk (IST)-Edinburgh service July 16, and 3X-weekly IST-Kigali-Entebbe-Istanbul service from May 16. Loganair will operate seasonal weekly Norwich-Isle of Man service May 26-Sept. 22, operated by Loganair subsidiary Suckling Airways, using a 31-seat Dornier 328.
Russia’s Transaero Airline (UN) has received permission to operate scheduled flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg (LED) to Rome (FCO) and Milan (MXP), becoming the second Russian carrier, after Aeroflot (SU), on these routes.