Asia’s aviation industry is gearing up for the 8th annual Routes Asia, being held in Adelaide between 18 - 20 April 2010. This strategically important event has, in recent years, attracted a huge number of the region’s air service development professionals and will be hosted this year by Adelaide Airport Ltd (AAL).
Air Berlin CCO Christoph Debus told Reuters that the carrier plans to launch service to northern Iraq this year. Lufthansa last week said it will begin flying to Erbil (as well as Baghdad) from Frankfurt and Munich this summer. Cargoitalia began serving Dubai twice-weekly, replacing Almaty as the outbound stop on its Milan Malpensa-Hong Kong service. Almaty will remain the stop on the return flight. From Jan. 21 it will replace Toronto with Chicago O'Hare as a stop on one of its twice-weekly transatlantic routings that also includes New York JFK.
Austriair is the name of a new scheduled airline based in Vienna that initially plans to offer flights to Munich, Frankfurt and Stuttgart onboard three leased E-195s in the spring. Austrian business jet, charter and ACMI operator map will operate the aircraft. Local media reported that the E-195s will have only 100 seats and a separate business class cabin, with fares cheaper than Austrian Airlines but more expensive than Air Berlin. No launch timetable was available.
Routes is pleased to announce the programme for the Strategy Forum for Routes Americas in Lima, Peru, the only network planning event for all of the Americas taking place 14 – 16 February.
United Airlines will operate a seasonal Chicago O'Hare-Anchorage service weekly May 22-June 8 and eight-times-weekly June 9-Aug. 30. Daily flights to Anchorage from San Francisco and Denver also will operate June 9-Aug. 30. A weekly ORD-ANC flight will continue Sept. 4-Sept. 25.
Germanwings confirmed plans to open a sixth base in Hanover on April 29. It will operate three A319s from the airport to 15 European destinations and expects to carry more than 500,000 passengers from HAN this year and more than 750,000 in 2011 ( ATWOnline, Jan. 11).
Marshall Aviation Services of Cambridge, UK, has formed a partnership with Aerospace Resources of Surrey, UK, to provide a range of consultancy and management solutions to airport owners and operators, and air traffic management organisations.
Dubai International is on course to become the world's fastest-growing major airport for international passenger traffic in 2009 with Dubai Airports today announcing 9.2% growth for the full year and a record 40.9 million passengers.
