Airports & Networks

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.

TAV Airports said it has completed renovation work at Ohrid Airport and vowed that the new passenger terminal at Skopje will be completed in the fourth quarter. The Turkish airports operator won a 20-year concession to manage the two Macedonian airports in 2008, committing to a €200 million investment program.

BAA outsourced the core IT services of the six UK airports it owns including London Heathrow to a consortium led by Capgemini UK as prime contractor and systems integrator. The deal is worth £100 million.

Operations at Lambert-St. Louis International returned to near-normal levels remarkably fast after the airport suffered a direct hit from a powerful F4-strength tornado on April 22. The twister caused extensive damage in Terminal 1's C Concourse, tearing off part of its roof and rendering its gates inoperable.

Oman Air will be resuming services between Salalah and Dubai from May 4th and between Muscat and Zanzibar from May 16th.

Arinc has today launched an new cloud-based platform which will extend the common-use passenger processing service (CUPPS) for airports and airlines

German carrier Condor is to add winter flights to the Turkish city of Antalya from Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. The airline will offer four times weekly

Canadian regional carrier Bearskin Airlines launched flights on May 1 between Waterloo International Airport and Montreal with the ambitious goal of

Aeroflot Russian Airlines is set to launch flights between Moscow Sheremetyevo and Phnom Penh to support the growing number of Russian visitors to

Colombian national carrier Avianca is to inaugurate flights to Orlando International from its base at Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport. The

Officials in the Afghanistan Ministry of Transport and Aviation have confirmed that Afghan carriers will soon begin flights to Bahrain. The

Asiana Airlines has confirmed that it is to increase frequencies on flights from Incheon International to San Francisco and Seattle later this month

New direct links are to be offered between the Indian region of Gujarat and Kenya to cater for the large number of Gujarati people have settled in the

The Virgin Blue Group will expand its codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines to include more destinations in the US and within Australia and New Zealand. This will allow V Australia passengers to connect from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Detroit as well as the current New York and Orlando. DL will codeshare on flights from Sydney to Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Auckland and Christchurch.

Emirates, welcomed HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai to its iconic stand, known as the Emirates Globe, as the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) show opened today.

Turkish Atlasjet airline made its inaugural flight to Najaf today from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport

Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News has reported that Basra International Airport in southern Iraq is to undergo major expansion and renovation this year, according to its director

China Eastern Airlines is set to extend its capacity upgrade on the Shanghai Pu Dong – Paris CDG sector into its Winter Schedule for 2011/2012. The

American Airlines inaugurated flights between Chicago and Helsinki today (May 2). The new seasonal link is being operated under a codeshare

After more than 20 years serving the route, American Airlines is to suspend operations between San Francisco and Honolulu in September, according to

African carrier Ethiopian Airlines, a designate member of the Star Alliance global grouping, has deferred the proposed introduction of its long-range

El Al Israel Airlines has inaugurated flights from Tel Aviv to the Croatian capital Zagreb following the closure of its leisure subsidiary Sun d’Or

South Korea’s national carrier, Korean Air, is to modify the schedule of one of its two daily flights between Incheon International Airport near the

Yemenia reduced capacity on its Sana’a – Dubai – Guangzhou route to twice weekly on May 1 having served the link three times per week for the past