Qatar Airways confirmed the launch of flights from Doha to Copenhagen (four-times-weekly on March 30), Ankara (four-times-weekly on April 5) and Tokyo Narita (daily via Osaka Kansai on April 26). Incheon, now served via KIX, will become a daily nonstop on March 28. In addition, Doha-Barcelona flights begin June 7. Blue Air will launch thrice-weekly Warsaw-Larnaca March 28. Ariana Afghan Airlines launched service from Kabul to Frankfurt and Al Ain and from Kandahar to Ankara.
Flydubai’s fleet of six Boeing 737-800s along with its low fares are helping the Dubai-based carrier to serve the shorter sectors and thinner markets that Emirates will avoid. Recent new destinations include Aleppo in Syria; Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Air Jamaica will reduce its fleet to six aircraft (one A319, four A320s and one A321) from nine and suspend Montego Bay-Orlando International and St. George's-New York JFK service on March 9 and flights from MBJ and Kingston to Chicago O'Hare, Curacao, Havana and Nassau on April 12. President and CEO Bruce Nobles said the cutbacks are "necessary as we seek to meet our financial obligations." JM then will operate 161 weekly flights, including service from Jamaica to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Toronto, Fort Lauderdale and JFK.
American Airlines will resume service to Port-au-Prince on Feb. 19. A flight from Miami that morning will be the first commercial service to the country since the Jan. 12 earthquake, AA said. It will offer twice-daily MIA flights as well as a daily Fort Lauderdale frequency and a four-times-weekly service from New York JFK. American Eagle will launch daily ATR 72 flights from PAP to San Juan, Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic, on March 12. Southwest Airlines will launch five-times-daily Boston-Philadelphia service on June 27.
United Airlines applied to the US Dept. of Transportation for the right to fly between San Francisco and Tokyo Haneda with a 777-200 and Continental Airlines applied for the right to operate a Newark-HND 777 service and a Guam-HND 757-400 service. Hawaiian Airlines applied for Honolulu-HND authority. Four pairs of slots at HND are available to US carriers under the new bilateral air services agreement with Japan.
Aviation experts from the world's premier airports were today welcomed to the Abu Dhabi Peer Review Programme by the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), H.E. Khalifa Al Mazrouei.
At Routes Americas, Markus Klaushofer, Moscow Sheremetyevo’s chief commercial officer discusses his agenda for the South Americas, as well as growth in the home market, and the new Terminal D.
