Airports & Networks

Helvetic Airways from 06SEP10 launches Daily Zurich - Bari service with Fokker 100 aircraft. It will compete with Air Berlin on the sector, which

Tiger Airways Singapore will add an international service to Taipei on 11 January, 2011, as well as increase its frequencies to Greater China. From

Lufthansa Italia from 01NOV10 is launching 6 weekly Milan Malpensa - Catania and Daily Milan Malpensa - Prague, on board Airbus A319. It will face

Sichuan Airlines on 27JUL10 launches Chengdu - Male service on board Airbus A330-200. Male, the capital of Maldives. It is the airlines' first medium

US Airways and Turkish Airlines reached a codeshare agreement under which US will place its code on Turkish flights to Istanbul Ataturk from Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. Customers will gain access to Adana, Izmir, Antalya and Ankara via IST and may opt for nonstop travel to IST via New York JFK and Chicago O'Hare. THY will place its code on US flights to Charlotte, Philadelphia and Phoenix from FRA, MUC, ZRH, ORD and JFK. The agreement is subject to US Dept. of Transportation and Turkish government approval.

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has released Abu Dhabi International Airport's traffic figures for the first six months of 2010, which showed a strong increase of 11.7% in passenger traffic, when compared to the same period last year.

Etihad Airways has announced it will commence operations to the South Korean capital, Seoul, on December 12, Seoul will become the 65th destination on Etihad's network.

Thai Airways International has signed a preliminary agreement to buy seven A330-300s. According to Airbus, the planes are due to be delivered from the

Garuda Indonesia has placed a firm order with Airbus for six long-range A330-200s. Scheduled for delivery from the fourth quarter of 2012, the

Gulf Air from 27OCT10 is resuming service to Colombo. Service operates 5 weekly Bahrain - Colombo with Airbus A320. Gulf Air will be the only carrier

Malaysia Airlines has announced that its services from Kuala Lumpur to Osaka will consist of six weekly non-stop services effective January 15 th 2011

Etihad has announced that it will begin services to Seoul's Incheon Airport later this year. There is currently no non-stop services between the city

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) today released Abu Dhabi International Airport's traffic figures for the first six months of 2010, which showed a strong increase of 11.7% in passenger traffic, when compared to the same period last year.

LAN Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday (20 July) for 50 new A320 family aircraft (A318, A319, A320 and A321s). It is slated as

From 01AUG10, JAL is expanding codeshare service with Finnair, placing its "JL" code on additional 7 routes operated by Finnair. Codeshare routes and

BA has said that it will start flights from London Heathrow to Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg, starting on November 28, 2010. The route will

Russian carrier Aeroflot has agreed to buy 11 A330-300 planes at Farnborough Air Show. Delivery is expected between 2011 and 2013. A summary of this

Jordan's national carrier, Royal Jordanian today (Tuesday July 20) signed an order for three additional 787-8s at Farnborough International Air Show

Exeter-based carrier, flybe has signed an £850 million order for 35 Embraer 175s, with options for a further 105 planes. The first aircraft will be

KLM has made the following adjustments to its scheduled Winter programme (Oct 31st-Mar 27th) Amsterdam - Delhi 777-300ER enters service (first

Air India will ramp up existing frequency to Abu Dhabi with the introduction of a daily service from November 2010. The carrier will go head to head

South African regional carrier 1Time Airlines will begin new services from Johannesburg to Maputo, Mozambique from August 12th with a new 5x weekly

Low cost US carrier, JetBlue Airways will open its first routes to Hartford (BDL) with a new 2x daily rotation from its Fort Lauderdale base. The new

Chinese operator, Sichuan Airlines will begin new services from its Chengdu base to Seoul's Incheon Airport. Effective July 27th it will commence a 2x

Finnish regional operator Blue1, will begin new non-stop services from its Helsinki base to Munich effective September 13th. The carrier will operate