Turkish Airlines is to open services to Alexandria from June 7. It already operates to Cairo and will be making use of the new Egyptian airport at the North African country's second city
Air Astana, which celebrated its eighth anniversary last week, said it plans to expand its Almaty hub by launching new services to Urumchi in western China, Dushanbe in Tajikistan and Tashkent in Uzbekistan during the second half of this year. "Additional new routes to other cities in southern Russia, including Omsk and Yekatenburg, are also under consideration," it said. It said it will operate the routes with new, leased E-190s it will begin taking delivery of next year. It will use A320s on the routes until the Embraer aircraft arrive.
Emirates airline has stepped up its preparations to launch flights to Prague - home to the famous Charles Bridge - by taking its message to the Czech capital's historic centre, that a non-stop flight to Dubai is just six weeks away.
British Airways flew 7.26 billion RPKs in April, down 22.4% year-over-year. on a 20.9% fall in capacity to 9.48 billion ASKs. Load factor dropped 1.5 points to 76.6%. Operations were affected by the volcanic ash cloud that closed much of European airspace April 15-21 and resulted in six days of lost flying for the airline.
