Aegean Airlines will launch twice-daily Athens-London Heathrow service Oct. 25 aboard A321s. Garuda Indonesia reinstated thrice-weekly Jakarta service to Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul Incheon aboard A330-200s. Porter Airlines will launch four-times-daily Halifax-St. John's service Oct. 5. Wizz Air will operate seasonal weekly service to Grenoble from Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca Dec. 12-March 27.
Qatar is inviting contractors to bid for a key contract on the $11bn New Doha International Airport (NDIA) project, the state's largest deal so far this year, reported Meed.
Team Bahrain has been named as the premier sponsor for the PATA Routes Tourism Air Services (TAS) Summit. The event is one of the most important tourism events of the year and is co-located with World Routes Forum and opens on Sunday, 13th September at the New China International Exhibition Centre in Beijing.
Ryanair reiterated that it will continue to cut flights at "high cost, tourist tax airports" in the UK and Ireland and switch aircraft to EU countries and airports that offer no tourist taxes and lower airport costs. To that end, the LCC said it will operate to 43 new Spanish destinations, a notable contrast with its recently announced steep capacity reductions at Stansted and Dublin ( ATWOnline, Aug. 1).
Long-distance budget carrier AirAsia X considers low-cost airlines based in the Gulf to be its allies, not rivals, as it prepares to launch flights in October between Malaysia and the UAE, the company's chief said on Wednesday.
A Bangkok Airways ATR 72 that departed from Krabi Island crashed on landing in Koh Samui yesterday, skidding off the runway and colliding with an unused airport control tower, killing the flight's captain and requiring hospitalization of seven others including the copilot.
Malaysia Airlines will suspend its thrice-weekly Kuala Lumpur-Stockholm Arlanda-New York JFK service in October. ANA and US Airways announced a codeshare agreement effective Sept. 16 under which US will place its code on ANA flights from Tokyo Narita to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago O'Hare, Washington Dulles and New York JFK while ANA will place its code on US flights from the aforementioned American airports to Charlotte, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Budget flights from Abu Dhabi could be on the way after the UAE capital emerged as the front-runner to be the Middle Eastern hub for Malaysian no-frils carrier AirAsia X, reported The National.
Major challenges and issues, from airspace congestion and safety of ATC operations will come under the microscope at the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Optimisation Summit Middle East 2009; a four day summit, made up of a two day conference and two days of interactive workshops.
