Airports & Networks

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.

Air Arabia has formally opened its Egyptian division (Air Arabia Egypt) and begun its first flight to Khartoum, Sudan from its new Alexandria base

Wataniya Airways has set off on its first flight from Kuwait to Vienna - its 11th new destination in the network. The airline's CEO, George Cooper

Air France, KLM and the Jetstar Group of Airlines (Jetstar, Jetstar Asia/Valuair and Jetstar Pacific) have entered into a strategic interline

Riga International airport has baked two cakes today - one to celebrate airBaltic's new Madrid service and the other to open the carrier's new service

Latvia's national carrier, airBaltic today (Wednesday) began serving Madrid - the start of four weekly flights using its 737 aircraft. Pictured from

Air Asia yesterday launched 1 Daily Kota Kinabalu - Hong Kong service with Airbus A320. The Malaysian low-cost carrier recently posted a 10% growth in

Qantas will introduce daily A380 service between Melbourne and London Heathrow and six-times-weekly A380 flights between Melbourne and Los Angele as its eighth, ninth and tenth A380s are delivered by the end of the 2011 first quarter. The services are expected to be launched by March 2011. Qantas has six A380s in service and expects to take delivery of its seventh in the final quarter of 2010, enabling Sydney-LHR A380 services to go daily.

Etihad Airways has commenced non-stop flights from its home base in Abu Dhabi to Erbil, becoming the first UAE carrier to operate to northern Iraq.

Jordanian airline, Royal Falcon Airlines, has begun direct flights from Marka Airport, Amman to Abu Dhabi International Airport, twice weekly, from today.

Oman Air has announced a new partnership with Hertz,the world's largest general use car rental company, to provide members of its Sindbad Frequent Flyer Programme with access to special offers and best available rates in the airline's key destination markets.

Brisbane will now have direct flights to China when operating carrier China Southern starts services there from Guangzhou, starting November 1. The

Lufthansa has announced its return to Colombia's capital, Bogota on October 31 after an eight year hiatus. The carrier will fly the route fives times

Tiger Airways has announced that its two deliveries for A320s will be brought forward from the next financial year to the current one, which ends in

Ryanair has reported full year profits of €319 million after tax - over three times that of last year's €105 million profit. In a press conference

AirAsia is making its next step towards establishing a joint venture in Vietnam by applying for an AOC to operate there. Earlier this year, the

Chilean carrier Sky Airline has begun flying the first of two new A320-200s, which will enable it to increase international routes throughout Latin

Qantas is phasing in more A380 capacity from Melbourne and will offer a daily A380 service to London by March next year. The carrier also plans to fly

Entebbe International Airport in Uganda grabbed the limelight during the regional heat of the Airport Marketing Awards during the Gala Dinner held at

African aviation stakeholders will only have themselves to blame for the lack of air service development in the continent, if the unwillingness in

Gulf Air today announced the launch of regular services to three new destinations - the Holy City of Medina in Saudi Arabia, Alexandria in Egypt and Aleppo in Syria all starting in June. F While in the past the airline has operated flights to Alexandria and Aleppo as part of its summer schedule, the airline has never flown to Medina before.