Airports & Networks

Transaero is expanding its presence to the Caribbean region as well as Mexico. Effective July 30, it is starting Moscow Domodedovo - Varadero 2 weekly

Hainan Airlines will increase capacity between Beijing and Taipei with a 4x weekly B737-800 which will commence from July 5th. Hainan Airlines

Star Alliance member, Continental Airlines has announced a second route for its B787 dreamliner with the introduction of new non-stop service from its

CIS host, Kharkiv, will gain new non-stop service from September 1st, with a daily service operated by Turkish carrier, Pegasus Airlines. The new

Malaysia Airlines is set to open services to Bandung, Indonesia, after having announced new non-stop service from its Kual Lumour hub. The new route

Singapore Airlines will increase five-times-weekly Manchester-Munich-Singapore service to daily Sept 1. Etihad Airways will operate a 777 on its daily Manchester-Abu Dhabi route, replacing an A330, during the summer months, increasing capacity by more than 2,100 seats per week. Iberia will resume thrice-weekly Madrid-Dubrovnik service June 15-Sept. 28 aboard an A320 family aircraft and twice-weekly Madrid-Zagreb service July 3-Sept. 19. It will launch twice-weekly Madrid-Oran service Sept. 16 aboard an A319.

Continental Airlines yesterday said it plans to start daily 787 flights between Houston Intercontinental and Lagos on Nov. 10, 2011, launching what would be its first-ever service to Africa. The flights, which also would be the first daily scheduled service between Texas and Africa by any carrier, are subject to government approval. CO currently serves 63 international destinations from IAH and recently announced plans to begin service between IAH and Auckland on Nov. 16, 2011.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol watches World Cup football together with travellers Coinciding with the kick-off of the World Cup Football on Friday, 11

Cebu Pacific, the low cost operator from the Philippines has announced that it will begin new non-stop flights from Manila to Beijing, which will

The first stage of construction of the passenger terminal at Bratislava Airport has been finalized Today, on 9th June 2010, the first half of the new

AirAsia will begin new non-stop services from Kuala Lumpur to Myanmar (Yangon), beginning July 20th and to be operated with narrowbody A320 aircraft

Delta Air Lines will begin scheduled flights from its Atlanta to Hub to Montrose, Colorado. The new route is effective December 18th and will be

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) last night hosted the 'Service Quality Recognition Ceremony' at Emirates Palace.

Lufthansa operated its first scheduled A380 flight Friday from Frankfurt to Tokyo Narita with 520 passengers and 22 crew onboard. Thrice-weekly service on the route will become daily on Aug. 4 following delivery of LH's second A380 by the end of July ( ATWOnline, April 30). Its third will operate between FRA and Beijing thrice-weekly beginning Aug. 25 and its fourth will fly between FRA and Johannesburg thrice-weekly from Oct. 25.

Skyteam member Delta Air Lines will discontinue scheduled flying from its Atlanta hub to Fortaleza, Brazil. From September 6th, the 2x weekly offering

Turkish Airlines will consolidate its operations in Moscow, with all of its services operating into Moscow Sheremetyevo from June 14th. Its daily

Hawaiian Airlines has revealed that effective October 3rd it will begin new flying from Maui (OGG) to Las Vegas, to be operated with B767-300 aircraft

Spanish flag carrier, Iberia will begin a new 2x weekly service from Madrid to Oran, Algeria. The route begins September 16th and will be operated on

Singapore Airlines will increase five-times-weekly Singapore-Munich-Manchester 777-300ER service to daily Sept. 1. Alitalia launched four-times-weekly Rome Fiumicino-Amman service aboard an A320. Wataniya Airways launched twice-weekly Kuwait-Rome Fiumicino service. American Eagle will launch daily Chicago O'Hare-Manhattan, Kan., service Nov. 18 with ERJ-145s.

AirBaltic and TAV Airports Holding signed an MOU to become joint venture partners for the possible development, construction and operation of a new passenger terminal at Riga International. The JV would be on a 50:50 shareholding basis. AirBaltic has lobbied for a new terminal able to handle 7 million passengers by 2014, which reportedly would require an investment of more than €92 million ($127.5 million) from the private sector ( ATW, Feb. 1).

The German government couldn't have chosen a more newsworthy moment to announce its intentions to slap a new departure tax onto air travel than during

Air Busan will start new services from its base at Gimhae International to Tokyo Narita. The new route will be operated on a 3x weekly basis and the

China Eastern Airlines has revealed that it will increase existing capacity into Vancouver with the annoucement that from October 31st, it will

It has been a busy week in the aviation industry, this week five for Friday reports on easyJet new Scandanavian services, Jetstar long haul flights

China's Spring Airlines has announced its first steps into the International market. Routes News investigates its new route to Tokyo Ibaraki and what