Airports & Networks

Africa’s opportunity lies with aviation liberalization.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will fly two times per week from the UAE capital to the island of Santorini in Greece.

Cathay Pacific has announced the continuation of its recently relaunched flights between Dubai and its hub, Hong Kong, following its first flight which took off on 21 May 2021.

Nigerian carriers Dana Air and Ibom Air have signed an agreement to begin codesharing on domestic routes.

Canada's airlines are adding back capacity more slowly than carriers in other countries, including the US.

With Kuwait Airways set to add two new routes to destinations in Europe, Routes takes a look at the airline’s current network.

The agreement covers domestic service in Nigeria and starts in June.

The carrier will connect the emirate with Ukraine’s capital city from June.

The partnership covering domestic routes has been in place since last August.

As well as further growing its domestic network with seven new routes, the oneworld alliance member is adding more Boeing 787 and Airbus A330 flights within Australia.

By Jill Stockbridge - While Honeywell has provided end-to-end digital solutions to airports for many years, the pandemic has brought a different emphasis, with existing technologies being developed for new roles. The company is working to a new mission: make it safe; know it is safe; and keep it safe.

TKH Airport Solutions is revolutionising airfield ground lighting (AGL). The company does supply traditional AGL to airports around the world, but now also offers a completely new solution.

As the region begins to see its aviation business growing again, OCEM Airfield Technology is offering technical solutions for airport operations and remote maintenance, helping operators respond to issues as they arise. The OCEM augmented reality (AR) assisted remote services enable real time monitoring of every situation to support customers, without delay of waiting for a expert to arrive in the field.

Frequentis portfolio benefits from Orthogon software, capable of reducing air traffic controller workload and carbon emissions.

French technology company Thales has launched two new cloud-based products at the Dubai Airport Show under its TopSky banner.

Abu Dhabi-based air navigation service company GAL rolled out its new brand at the Airport Show in Dubai with a number of key speakers at the conferences. The company is now showing as Global Air Navigation Services (GANS).

At the far side of the Airport Show exhibition is a large shiny black Mercedes Sprinter, with extraordinary large red antennae blossoming from the roof. This is the Raven Black stand, and the vehicle is a mobile unit designed to protect airports and aircraft from bird strikes.

American Airlines and United Airlines are to increase service to Spain after the European country’s government confirmed that borders would reopen from June 7 to travelers who have been fully vaccinated.

The market for nonstop routes between Croatia and the US continues to grow.

The airline will compete directly with Wizz Air on its return to the London market.

Flights to Thessaloniki, Prague and Sofia are being resumed alongside an expansion of the airline’s existing codeshare agreement with Aeroflot.

The planned resumptions follow efforts to open borders to passengers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Past attempts at scheduled services from Balzano have failed economically.

Kazaeronavigatsia, Kazakhstan's national air navigation services provider announced at the Airport Show today that it has taken the next step in its ATM-grade network infrastructure programme with Frequentis.

Tanzania’s capital is in line for a new airport that will dramatically improve the city’s connectivity. Alan Dron reports.