Monarch Airlines will launch thrice-weekly service to Sharm el Sheikh from London Gatwick and Manchester Nov. 30. AirTran Airways will launch twice-weekly Baltimore-Aruba service Dec. 17. Qatar Airways will postpone the launch of daily Doha-Baku-Tbilisi service from the original date of Nov. 30 to Feb. 1, "due to operational reasons," it said. Etihad Airways and S7 Airlines have expanded their codeshare agreement to include Kazan, Samara, Krasnodar and St. Petersburg.
Turkish Airlines has announced it will increase its frequencies to a number of international destinations: Donetsk, Kiev, Odessa, Washington DC and Los Angeles.
Premium aviation news service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) is reporting today that an Afriqiyah A300 used for VIP transport for the Ghaddafi regime has been destroyed at Libya's main interational airport
Emirates has announced an increased commitment to Japan with the introduction of two extra flights a week, ensuring a daily, non-stop service between Dubai and Narita International Airport from 1st November.
Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates has welcomed Saudi Arabia's decision to consider allowing foreign carriers to operate domestic flights within the Kingdom, and said that it is studying this move in depth, AME info has reported.
Gulf Air, has launched services to three more new destinations - Rome, the Italian capital, Entebbe, the hub of Uganda's commercial sector and Juba, the capital of newly independent country, South Sudan.