Airports & Networks

Dubai International was this week named the Best Airport in the Middle East at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2011 in Copenhagen.

flydubai today announced it is to begin flights to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

Etihad Airways this week celebrated the fifth anniversary of its service between Abu Dhabi and Muscat, Oman.

Air France has resumed flights into Cambodia, almost 37 years since it last serve the country. Its inaugural Paris CDG – Phnom Penh, operated by an

German national carrier Lufthansa has confirmed that it will start using its Airbus A380s on flights to Miami this summer after the delivery of its

Turkish carrier Atlasjet Airlines has started flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Tehran Imam Khomeini and Pristina International. The airline is

Iranian carrier Mahan Air has this week launched flights from Shiraz to Kuala Lumpur. The twice weekly service is being operated by an Airbus A310

Austrian-registered start-up carrier People’s Vienna Line has acquired a former Finnair Embraer 170-100LR and launched services from St Gallen

Canadian carrier Air Transat is to offer seasonal flights to Istanbul this summer with a weekly flight between May 29 and October 9. The service will

Hawaiian Airlines has confirmed that it will launch flights between Honolulu and Osaka Kansai International, its second destination in Japan and third

Russian carrier Kuban Airlines is to launch a twice weekly connection from its Krasnodar base to Gyumri in Armenia. The new service will be launched

TAP Portugal is to launch flights between Lisbon and Porto Alegre, its tenth destination in Brazil. In the process it will become the first long-haul

The rising price of fuel could lead a number of the world’s airlines to cut their expansion plans and cancel some of their not so well performing

Independent Swiss regional carrier SkyWork Airlines is taking a much stronger position in the country’s scheduled aviation sector, bringing

Mexican carrier Aviacsa is set to relaunch domestic flights in May, less than a year after the Mexican Government grounded the carrier due to alleged

Earlier this week it was revealed that Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport Company (IATA: CTU; ICAO: ZUUU) in China would be the host of the 10th

NORWEGIAN ADDS FLIGHTS FROM ARLANDA Budget operator Norwegian has confirmed the launch of three additional routes from its base at Stockholm Arlanda

BATAVIA AIR ADDS SINGAPORE LINK FROM MEDAN Indonesian carrier Batavia Air has this week launched flights from Medan Polonia International to Singapore

CONTINENTAL TO LAUNCH SAN FRANCISCO – GUADALAJARA Continental Airlines is to add a second link to the Mexican city of Guadalajara, with the

MAHAN AIR ADDS SHIRAZ – KUALA LUMPUR SERVICE Iranian carrier Mahan Air has this week launched flights from Shiraz to Kuala Lumpur. The twice weekly

ARIK AIR TO SUPPORT SIERRA LEONE START-UP Nigerian carrier Arik Air has entered into a joint venture with the Government of Sierra Leone to establish

AIRASIA AND EXPEDIA TO ESTABLISH JOINT ONLINE TRAVEL AGANCY Asian low-cost carrier AirAsia and Expedia have launched a joint venture Online Travel

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

Today’s issue of The HUB is dated April 1, a day more commonly known in the western world as April Fools’ Day. It is widely recognised and celebrated

American Airlines will temporarily suspend one of its two daily Dallas/Fort Worth-Tokyo Narita flights and its daily New York JFK-Tokyo Haneda service through at least April 26. Delta Air Lines launched daily Miami-London Heathrow service. Xiamen Airlines started daily 737-800 Zhengzhou-Singapore Changi service. Alaska Airlines will increase its four-times-weekly Oakland-Kahului service to daily June 5.