Airports & Networks

Oneworld member Finnair has announced that it will begin services to Stockholm's Bromma Airport, located 7km from the centre of Stockholm with good

Skyteam member, China Southern has announced that it is expanding its existing service into Australia with the following changes. From October 31st it

Hong Kong Airlines will add a second daily service to Sanya, China, effective June 28th. It currently operates its daily service with B737-800

Sharjah based low cost carrier, Air Arabia has announced that it will begin new non-stop services to Iraq with a 2x weekly service to Najaf. It will

Allegiant Air will launch five-times-weekly Stockton-Long Beach service July 1 using an MD-80. Swiss launched six-times-weekly San Francisco-Zurich service aboard an A340. Emirates announced it will operate one additional roundtrip flight from Dubai to Cape Town and Johannesburg July 12 and July 13 respectively in anticipation of increased demand during the World Cup.

Beijing international and Sydney Kingsford Smith airport have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together as 'sister airports'. The airports

Jetstar plans to further expand its New Zealand operations by adding a seventh based A320 in the market later this year.The aircraft would have

In the wake of a massive downturn in profit forecasts. Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd is set to reduce or cut services to Fiji and Phuket, newly appointed

easyJet believes it has found a breakthrough to avoiding further widespread ash cloud disruption by investing £1 million in 'ash radars' which are

The twice-weekly service, starting 9th July, operated with Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, will operate to Chicago via Anchorage. It will then fly

The world's eyes are currently on South Africa and its national carrier, South African Airways. SAA operates a mix of narrow-body and wide-body

Overview Izmir, affectionately known as 'The Pearl of the Aegean' and historically as Smyrna, is located in the third most populous city of Turkey and

Newcastle is to get its first flights to New York after Jet2 announced special Christmas services. Flights went on sale on Thursday with prices from

Our sister publisher, AvNews gathers the latest route news from Latin America and the Caribbean. This week: Spirit Airlines expands in Colombia; Air

If you blinked and missed those pivotal route announcements this week, catch up with our compilation: Air Arabia Egypt is launched; Brisbane brings

One of Africa's largest carriers, Kenya Airways, mapped out its network plans at a Route Exchange Airline Requirement Briefing during Routes Africa in

The Routes Africa Strategy Forum provided African aviation leaders with a forum to tackle and debate the challenges of air service development in the

The Gulf region's carriers have established an exceptionally strong and ever more powerful hold on the fast growing Africa-China market. ASM's Gordon

Dubai Airports yesterday announced two initiatives that will significantly reduce noise and emissions both inside and outside of Dubai International Airport for the benefit of customers, surrounding communities and the environment.

Etihad Airways customers around the world will soon be able to fly to Budapest following the signing of a new codeshare agreement with Hungarian carrier, Malev Airlines.

Flydubai last night landed at its first Indian destination Lucknow, which is the capital of India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, in the north east of the country.

flydubai has made its inaugural flight to Lucknow - it's first Indian destination in the route network. The carrier will offer three flights a week to

Afriqiyah Airways is to serve two new destinations from Tripoli: Milan Malpensa and Lyon from July. It will offer four weekly flights to Lyon from

Allegiant Air flew 419.07 million RPMs in May, up 10% year-over-year, on an 8.2% increase in capacity to 455.06 million ASMs. Load factor increased 1.5 points to 92.1%. Continental Airlines said May estimated consolidated RASM increased 23%-24% from the year-ago month while estimated mainline RASM rose 22.5%-23.5%. It flew 7.81 billion consolidated RPMs last month, up 3.7% year-over-year, as capacity lifted 0.2% to 9.33 billion ASMs. Load factor rose 2.9 points to 83.8%.

Vueling Airlines will start connecting passengers through its base at Barcelona El Prat from July 5, a move that it expects will allow it to carry 250,000-350,000 additional travelers this year and another 1 million or more next year. The new connectivity will provide passengers with 418 "Vueling-to-Vueling" city-pairs through Barcelona. Customers will buy only one ticket when booking the flights. Vueling will charge only one transaction fee and connect baggage at no additional charge despite its aim to increase ancillary revenue.