Airports & Networks

Airports Council International said 2010 passenger traffic rose 6.3% at its 900 member airports compared to 2009, according to preliminary figures...

Brussels Airport will invest €460 million to expand and upgrade its facilities over the next five years, but it will not construct a low-cost terminal, the airport operator revealed last month.

San Francisco International next week will reopen a rebuilt Terminal 2, which served as the airport's international terminal until its closure in 2000 when SFO's current international facility opened. Built in 1954, T2 has undergone a $383 million renovation started in 2008 through a design-build partnership between Gensler and Turner Construction. From April 14 it will serve as a domestic terminal housing American Airlines and San Francisco-based Virgin America.

World Airways - a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings - has reached an agreement with Emirates SkyCargo to operate one Boeing 747-400 freighter on a full-time basis beginning in April 2011.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has launched overseas flights from the historic city of Ivano-Frankovsk in southwestern Ukraine. With

Filipino carrier South East Asian Airlines (SE Air) has deepened its relationship with new shareholder Tiger Airways by using another of its Airbus

Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air is to once again serve Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean archipelago of islands off the coast of Tanzania. The carrier will

Hong Kong Express is to expand its network into Malaysia with the launch of a Hong Kong – Kota Kinabalu service. The twice weekly flight will commence

Nordic budget carrier Norwegian is to further expand its network from Stockholm Arlanda in addition to its new routes to Berlin Schoenefeld, Prague

Austrian regional carrier NIKI is to increase links between Vienna and Belgrade this winter with eleven rather than six flights per week. The airline

United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier flydubai has announced plans to inaugurate flights to Ethiopia with a three times weekly Dubai – Addis

Czech Airlines is to inaugurate flights to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The weekly service, to be introduced from June 6, will be the airline’s

NATS has become the first air traffic service provider to be certified against PAS 55, the international Asset Management standard, for its en-route operations.

Residents in the Al Ula region of Saudi Arabia are already campaigning to the new chief of the country's civil aviation authority GACA to get up to speed with their local airport project.

Air India will this week transfer its own flights from Kochi, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram to the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam to its low-cost

Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways has upgraded its four times weekly Makung – Kinmen route to a scheduled operation. The link, which had provided

Ethiopian Airlines is to begin serving Chennai, its third destination in India. The African national carrier will extend its existing Addis Ababa –

Air China will use the first of its soon to delivered Boeing 777-300ERs on its Beijing – Shanghai Hongqiao route from July 1, subject to delivery

South Korean low-cost carrier Air Busan is to launch flights from its Busan base to Hong Kong and Tokyo Narita, although the later route’s

Singaporean carrier SilkAir is to introduce additional services on its existing routes from Singapore Changi International to Chiang Mai, Manado and

Japan Airlines announced it will extend the operations of extra flights to Yamagata and Hanamaki between April 8-10 owing to the early recovery of the Tohoku region in Japan that was most affected by the recent disaster. Peoples Viennaline, based at St. Gallen-Altenrhein, launched operations this week. The new carrier will fly thrice-daily from Altenrhein to Vienna, using an ex-Finnair Embraer E-170.

A new private aviation terminal is to be built at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority GACA is calling for companies to bid to develop and operate the new facility.

Faisal bin Hamad Al-Sugair has been appointed new president of Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA), replacing Abdullah Rehaimi.

The rise of China and South Korea as air transport powerhouses threatens to further dilute Japan’s influence.

This week it was announced that Cathay Pacific Airways will be offering a new four-times-weekly service from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong from the 2 June 2011.