Thai Airways International will launch thrice-weekly Bangkok-Brussels Boeing 777-200ER service Nov. 17. EgyptAir is re-opening its daily Boeing 777-300ER Cairo-Kuala Lumpur service Aug. 1 via Bangkok. The service was pulled in January owing to political and social unrest in the country. Ethiopian Airlines launched Addis Ababa-Malakal, South Sudan, service June 17.
News from ATW's Airports Today: The US Congress last week again passed a short-term FAA funding extension as lawmakers continued to fail to reach agreement on the long-term agency reauthorization bill that airports across the US say is necessary to bring stability to construction project planning.
TAECO opened its sixth maintenance hangar at Xiamen Gaoqi International. The $73.5 million, 45,790 sq.-m. hangar is fully equipped to accommodate two widebody aircraft, enabling capacity expansion by 20%
Moscow Domodedovo Airport reported that it handled 2.26 million passengers in May, up 24.3% over May 2010. Domestic passenger traffic totaled 851,395, up 26.1% year-over-year. International passenger traffic increased 23.3% to 1.41 million. Through the first five months of 2010, passenger traffic lifted 12.8% year-over-year to 8.63 million. Cargo traffic at Russia's busiest airport totaled 70,311 tons through the first five months of 2011, up 24.6% compared to January-May 2010.
As debate and lobbying on the controversial Air Passenger Duty in the UK intensified last month, Glasgow Prestwick Airport urged the UK government to scrap the APD and devolve it to the Scottish government to permit a joined-up approach to economic development.
Detroit Metro operator Wayne County Airport Authority said it has agreed to partner with Michigan State University Extension to grow, harvest and process bioenergy crops on the property of DTW and another of the authority's airports, Willow Run.
East Syracuse, New York-based Sensis Corp., the air traffic management technologies company with offerings that include Airport Surface Detection Equipment-X (ASDE-X) and runway status lights, reached a definitive agreement last week to be acquired by Sweden's Saab for $155 million. Sensis's customers include 54 of the world's 100 largest airports.
IATA last month unveiled a mock-up of an airport checkpoint of the future—designed to enhance security while reducing queues and intrusive searches—that relies on intelligence-driven, risk-based measures ( ATW Daily News, Dec. 15, 2010).
The US Congress last week again passed a short-term FAA funding extension as lawmakers continued to fail to reach agreement on the long-term agency reauthorization bill that airports across the US say is necessary to bring stability to construction project planning.
The consortium consisting of Oman Investment Corporation SAOC and Ultra Electronics Holdings plc from the UK, have won a RO127.5m ($331.6m) contract for the Muscat and Salalah Airport IT and Systems Integration project.
Flydubai has added two new Russian destinations to its network with flights to Kazan and Ufa. The new routes bring flydubai's network to 43 destinations across the GCC, Middle East, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent, Asia and the fringes of Europe.
Turkey's low cost carrier Pegasus Airlines has added additional direct flights to its schedule for summer 2011 in between London Stansted and both Istanbul and North Cyprus starting Thursday 21 July until 6 September 2011.
Turkish Airlines launched twice-weekly Istanbul Ataturk-Basra service and will increase it to thrice-weekly Tuesday, from when the service will be operated via Necef. It also launched three weekly IST-Naples flights and thrice-weekly IST-Islamabad Boeing 737-800 service. Etihad Airways reached a codeshare agreement with Czech Airlines under which OK will launch four-times-weekly Prague-Abu Dhabi Airbus A319 flights Sept. 21.
