Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways yesterday launched its latest daily flight to India when it introduced the first of the daily services to the southern Indian IT city of Bengaluru (Bangalore).

Dragonair, the low cost affiliate of Cathay Pacific will increase its existing 4x weekly service from Hong Kong to Busan from May1st to a 5x weekly

Royal Air Maroc will inauguare new non stop scheduled service between Agadir and Nantes from October 30th. The route will be operated on a 2x weekly

Alaska Airlines is set to launch non-stop scheduled service from Honolulu to Portland Oregen commencing September 20th. The carrier is entering the

Delta, Air France KLM to Offer Twice as Many Travel Options from Manchester this Summer Business and leisure passengers flying from Manchester will

China Eastern Airlines is keeping its alliance options available according to reports. It is being courted by all three major global alliances and the

Pegasus Airlines will operate a seasonal weekly service between Antalya and Birmingham May 2-Oct. 17. Royal Air Maroc will commence twice-weekly Agadir-Nantes flights Oct. 30 aboard a 737-800 in two-class configuration. Jazeera Airways will launch thrice-weekly Kuwait-Lahore service May 12.

Abu Dhabi Airports Co. appointed James Bennett CEO. Bennett will retire as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority on May 8 after holding the position for 14 years.

This week, Aurigny Air Services celrbates a decade of flights between Guernsey and Manchester airport. Aurigny's commercial director, Malcom Coupar

Low cost operator Jazeera Airways will begin a new non-stop service from Kuwait City to the Pakistani city of Lahore. The new service will begin from

Ukraine International will commence a new 4x weekly service from Kiev to Chisnau, Moldova, commencing April 20. The service will compete with Aerosvit

Skyteam member China Southern will relaunch scheduled services from Shenyang to Daegu in Korea from June 2nd. The service will be operated on a 2x

Shenzhen Airlines has applied to the CAAC to operate new twice weekly flights to the Koren capital of Seoul from Zhengzhou. It will use narrowbody

LAN Chile has revealed that it will commence new services to Paris this Winter. From September 2nd, LAN will inaugurate an extension to its existing

Wataniya Airways will launch thrice-weekly Kuwait-Vienna service June 2 aboard an A320. Vienna is the 11th destination for the Kuwaiti airline since it began commercial operations in January of last year. Qatar Airways will launch daily Doha-Sao Paulo Guarulhos-Buenos Aires service June 24. It said capacity to India in the last six months has risen 30% from 56 to 74 weekly flights due to the introduction of services to Bangalore, Goa and Amritsar.

Air New Zealand and Continental Airlines last week began a reciprocal codeshare agreement under which ANZ will place its code on more than 540 weekly flights to and from CO's Houston, Newark and Cleveland hubs. Passengers will be able to connect to the codeshare flights from ANZ services from Auckland to Los Angeles and San Francisco. CO in turn will place its code on ANZ's LAX-AKL and SFO-AKL flights and onward flights from AKL to Rarotonga, Apia and Tonga as well as all transtasman services, ANZ domestic services and AKL-Hong Kong flights.

Oman Air is attacking regional business from the UAE with the launch of flights to nearby emirate Ras Al Khaimah next month.

Pegasus Airlines, Turkey's leading low-cost carrier is launching new direct flights from Birmingham in the UK to the Turkish holiday destination of Antalya on 2nd May 2010.

Colombia's national carrier, Avianca is to begin a direct twice-weekly flight between Madrid and Medellin, starting July 3. An A330 will depart Madrid

AirAsia X will offer a double daily service on its Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur to Perth sectors from 1 July. The carrier currently

The first of five new routes for Oman Air will be Kuala Lumpur - a four-times weekly schedule from Muscat, starting May 1. The other four destinations

oneworld member American Airlines will cancel its current twice daily service from Boston Logan Airport to St Louis. The carrier will cancel the

Dubai based low cost carrier flydubai will start new non-stop services to Istanbul and Assiut, Egpyt. It will operate to Istanbul on a five times

AirAsia will launch a new scheduled service from Kota Kinabalu to Hong Kong. The new service will start from June 11th and will compete with two other

Air Astana temporarily suspended four-times-weekly service between Almaty and Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek "due to the political unrest in Kyrgyzstan," where President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted last week following violent protests that led to his political opponents attempting to form a new government. Air Astana said it hoped to resume the flights on April 19 "subject to security improvements." It said it would offer passengers with tickets on the route full refunds.