Malev Hungarian Airlines will re-launch daily Budapest-Serbia service Dec. 14 aboard 72-seat Q400s after a 17-year hiatus. It suspended operations to Belgrade in 1992 owing to the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars. Jet Airways increased 13-times-weekly Delhi-Kathmandu to twice-daily and will launch daily Mumbai-Kathmandu flights Dec. 2 aboard a 737. Etihad Airways launched four-times-weekly Abu Dhabi-Hyderabad service aboard an A320, increasing to daily from the start of 2010.
With a history spanning more than two millennia, Jordan is an explorers' delight. Marcelle Nethersole met Nayef H Al-Fayez, from the Jordan Tourism Board, to look at the country's diversity and explain how tourists and business travellers can enjoy this jewel in the Middle East that is often, mistakenly, thought of as a danger zone.
Continental Airlines will launch daily Newark-Munich service on March 27 using a 767-200ER. Virgin America launched twice-daily service to Fort Lauderdale from both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Horizon Air will start daily Spokane-Sacramento-San Jose and Spokane-San Jose-Sacramento service March 26 aboard 76-seat Q400s. American Eagle launched daily Los Angeles-Santa Fe service. Spirit Airlines launched twice-weekly Fort Lauderdale-Armenia, Colombia service.
Worldwide Flight Services won contracts from Royal Air Maroc, Air Caraïbes, Air Mali, Air Burkina and Mauritania Airways for full ground handling at Paris Orly.
The world-class Formula 1 event in Abu Dhabi last month gave the emirate's international airport a further boost to its already impressive traffic figures
American Eagle yesterday launched service from Miami to Charleston (daily using an ERJ-145, increasing to twice-daily April 6), Knoxville (daily, ERJ-145), Eleuthera (thrice-weekly using an ATR 72) and Treasure Cay (four-times-weekly, ATR 72) and today will begin four-times-weekly MIA-Governor's Harbour service aboard an ATR 72. JetBlue Airways launched daily San Francisco-Fort Lauderdale service aboard an A320. Finnair will operate five-times-weekly Helsinki-Toronto service June 6-Sept. 9.
US FAA's computer system that processes flight plans failed for about 4 hr. yesterday, leading to numerous flight delays and cancellations throughout the country, the second such glitch in the past 15 months.
Flydubai will launch twice-daily Dubai-Bahrain service on Dec. 13. Arik Air will launch five-times-weekly Abuja-London Heathrow service on Nov. 27 aboard a 737-800.
China United Airlines, the Beijing Nanyuan-based subsidiary of Shanghai Airlines, plans to establish a second base in Foshan, Guangdong Province. It launched service to the southern city yesterday. Like Nanyuan, Foshan's airport largely is reserved for the military and has not handled commercial operations in seven years. SAL Chairman Zhou Chi said CUA plans to establish an airport management company in Foshan and will open more routes from the airport in the coming days. Owing to fierce competition, CUA's strategy is to serve secondary domestic markets.
