Gol and Delta Air Lines reached a codeshare agreement under which DL will place its code on more than 45 Gol flights from Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Registered frequent flyers from both airlines will be able to earn miles in both Gol's Smiles and Delta's SkyMiles programs on eligible flights. Alaska Airlines will launch daily Portland-Honolulu service Sept. 20 aboard a 737-800. Bulgaria Air will start twice-weekly Sofia-Skopje service in June, increasing to thrice-weekly in July.
The spat between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over landing rights at Cairo Airport is continuing even though Egypt's CAA said yesterday that it will not be dragged into a 'war of words'.
Blue1 is increasing the frequency of its Helsinki-London Heathrow service from daily to twice-daily from April 26. Turkish Airlines will launch thrice-weekly Istanbul-Sochi service from May 25.
Bahraini Gulf Air has rolled out another new service – a dedicated B2B (Business to Business) internet booking tool - for its corporate customers and travel agents as part of the airline's growing number of solutions offered to its corporate and trade partners.