Airports & Networks

British Airways CityFlyer, the UK national carrier’s London City-based division, is to expand its summer sun routes from the Docklands’ airport this

Etihad Airways and airberlin, Europe's sixth biggest carrier, today announced a significant increase in services between Abu Dhabi and both Germany and Thailand.

Etihad Airways yesterday opened its Manchester guest contact centre with a reception for government officials and local business leaders.

Safi Airways is increasing its capacity between Kabul and Dubai effective March 28, 2012.

Long-haul, low-cost carrier Scoot has confirmed that Australia will be the destination for its second route after revealing that just weeks after it

Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has granted approval for ATR 42/72 aircraft to operate at Russian airports with non-tarmac runways. Of the 332 airports and airdromes in Russia, 38% have non-tarmac runways.

Hungarian-based Wizz Air (W6) announced it will invest HUF25 billion ($100 million) into expanding its Budapest operations after state-owned Malev Hungarian Airlines ceased operations Friday.

For the second consecutive week the European market has been hit by a high profile closure as Malév Hungarian Airlines followed Spanair into the

Etihad Airways has announced the launch of flights to Lagos, the airline's first destination in West Africa, from July 1, subject to regulatory approvals.

Qatar Airways' 2012 expansion programme is underway after last week's launch of scheduled daily flights to Tbilisi, Georgia via Baku, Azerbaijan.

The rapid growth and the greater liberalisation of the Saudi Arabian market has led to a new event being planned to take place in Jeddah later this year.

US low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines has confirmed that it has received approval from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for AirTran Airways

Etihad Airways is to increase its offering to the Republic of Seychelles Indian Ocean Island archipelago through its new partnership with the country

Estonian Air will this month take delivery of its first Embraer regional jet models after selecting the Brazilian manufacturer’s E-Jet family to form

The out-spoken boss of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, has hit out at the plans by the operator of Male International Airport in the Maldives to raise

Reuters has reported that French construction group Vinci and a partnership between U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) are the leading bidders in a race for a near 40 percent stake in Turkish airport operator TAV Havalimanlari Holding

Air Seychelles has announced details of its new direct flights from Mahé to Abu Dhabi. This follows last week's announcement that Etihad Airways is to form a strategic partnership by taking a 40 per cent stake in the airline.

Spanish national carrier Iberia is to expand its network in Africa this summer with new links from Madrid to Nouakchott, the capital and largest city

Air New Zealand (Air NZ) is to improve access for leisure passengers to the popular holiday destination of Bali with the introduction of a twice

Air Asia Japan, the latest low-cost joint venture from the Malaysian carrier, has received the green light for its planned launch later this year

Ethiopian Airlines will launch 3X-weekly Addis Ababa-Dammam service Feb. 12. Germanwings will launch weekly Cologne-Nador service March 30 instead of the previously announced May 25 launch date. The service will increase to 2X-weekly May 25. Jetairfly will launch 2X-weekly Brussels South Charleroi-Nice service March 30. A third weekly frequency will be added in July and August.

South Korea’s national airline Korean Air is to make some notable adjustments to its European network this summer including the introduction of Airbus

Flydubai has chalked up its seventh destination in Saudi Arabia, with the start of its three-weekly flights to Taif in the Makkah Province.

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has received the final approval it needed from the country's Executive Council to go ahead with the construction of the new Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC) at Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Spanish carrier Spanair may have suspended operations abruptly at the end of last week but many of its rivals already had contingency plans in place