Airports & Networks

Paul Griffiths, Dubai Airports' CEO, has predicted Dubai International will become the busiest airport in the world for international passenger traffic as early as 2015.

Qatar Airways has used this year’s Arabian Travel Market to announce the latest stage of its network growth. Having already opened services to five

Virgin Blue Holdings, which has operations under the Virgin Blue, V Australia and Pacific Blue names, has been rebranded as Virgin Australia Holdings

Air Canada resumed service at the City Airport in downtown Toronto on May 1, providing customers with additional options for flying Canada's busiest

Air China is to introduce a seventh daily flight between Beijing and Hong Kong from July 1 as it seeks to increase its share of this busy and

New Caribbean low-fare carrier REDJet is set to launch operations this month with flights linking Bridgetown, Barbados; Georgetown, Guyana; Kingston

This section of your weekly update will keep you up to date on all the key aircraft orders and deliveries and what they could mean for the route

CONDOR TO OFFER WINTER LINKS TO ANTALYA German carrier Condor is to add winter flights to the Turkish city of Antalya from Dusseldorf and Frankfurt

KOREAN AIR BOOSTS CONNECTIONS FROM HONOLULU South Korea’s national carrier, Korean Air, is to modify the schedule of one of its two daily flights

YEMENIA REDUCES CAPACITY TO GUANGZHOU Yemenia reduced capacity on its Sana’a – Dubai – Guangzhou route to twice weekly on May 1 having served the link

JETBLUE BOOSTS FORT LAUDERDALE TO NASSAU CAPACITY JetBlue Airways has confirmed it will introduce a third daily rotation on its flight from Ft

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CLOSES AIRTRAN ACQUISITION US low-fare carrier pioneer Southwest Airlines has closed its purchase of all of the outstanding common

Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week. For further

Following on from a previous survey highlighting some of the strangest, most unusual requests its staff have received over the past few years, Virgin

Independent Indian carrier Jet Airways is to boost capacity on its flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong and Newark via Brussels through the introduction

UK carrier Monarch Airlines has inaugurated flights between Manchester and the popular Turkish resort city of Bodrum as it expands its presence in the

Cathay Pacific Airways will continue to operate seven non-stop flights per day between Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as an eighth daily flight via

Syrian Air is expected to return its Boeing 747SP to scheduled passenger service three years after it retired the type from operation. The aircraft is

Low-cost carrier Firefly is to launch flights between Kuala Lumpur and Sandakan, the second-largest city in Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern

Vietnam Airlines is to offer a daily schedule to the Russian capital Moscow this winter with a further weekly flight from Ho Chi Minh City. From

Changi Airport Group named Lim Liang Song CEO London Heathrow purchased HRN3 Dubai International reported Rockford(Ill.) International received

Manchester Airport was selected SNC-Lavalin sai ARINC last month completed a fast-track installation

Virtual who's who of airline trade groups united last month to urge the European Commission not to revise slot allocation rules at EU airports. Groups in favor of maintaining the status quo include the Arab Air Carriers Organization, Assn. of Asia Pacific Airlines, Assn. of European Airlines, US Air Transport Assn., European Low Fare Airlines Assn., European Regional Airlines Assn., International Air Carrier Assn. and IATA.

Japan Airlines 737-800 en route from Tokyo Haneda landed around 8 a.m. April 13 at Sendai, marking the resumption of commercial services at SDJ for the first time since it was inundated on March 11 by the earthquake-triggered tsunami.

Alaska Airlines will begin a major renovation project of its facilities at Los Angeles International this year, moving from Terminal 3 to Terminal 6 in late 2011 and integrating its "Airport of the Future" check-in process and "modernized" gate facilities. The new location will open for operations in spring 2012.