Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation has awarded Saudi Binladin Group a $7.2bn contract to build a new terminal and infrastructure at Jeddah international airport, AFP has reported.
Air Astanais launching thrice-weekly service from Almaty to Dushanbe Nov. 21 and Tashkent Dec. 2 as part of its strategy to further develop ALA into a regional hub ( ATW Daily News May 17). It will commence a twice-weekly TSE-Yekaterinburg service from Dec. 8 and weekly SCO-Istanbul flights from Nov. 28. Alaska Airlines will operate four-times-weekly 737-800 Portland, Ore-Kona service through April 9.
Colombia and the US officially signed an open skies agreement Nov. 11, which is scheduled to take effect in late 2012, US Dept. of Transportation announced Friday, making Colombia the 100th US open skies partner.