Airports & Networks

The carrier has signaled LAX will be its first North American service.

So far only three routes have been launched but the LCC intends to grow its network to 14 destinations from Russia’s busiest airport over the course of the summer season.

The new services, which include the first scheduled connection between Montreal and Honolulu, will complement the airline’s long-standing routes from Calgary and Vancouver to the Hawaiian Islands.

British Airways (BA) and Lufthansa are among the latest airlines to pause flights to Tel Aviv, following the likes of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in suspending their services to Israel.

A new event is being launched by Routes which will unite cargo airlines, freight forwarders, integrators and airports.

Three new nonstop services to Hawaii are planned as the carrier targets demand for winter vacations.

Dubai Airports has welcomed a Serene Air flight from Lahore to Dubai.

Gulf Air will resume its direct operations to Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus with 2 weekly flights starting from 15 June, and Malaga in Spain with 2 weekly flights starting from 30 June until 29 August.

The Central American nation will become the fourth overseas country served by the carrier.

Fourteen routes are being launched from the airport, with up to 20 daily departures planned during the peak summer season.

The tie-up is still being reviewed in other countries, including Chile.

Air travel 'between low-risk countries' should resume, executives tell White House.

Civil unrest in Israel has prompted a number of carriers to halt flying to the country.

The end appears to be in sight for the Atlantic’s Organized Track System as airlines turn to environmentally op-timized routes.

The official start of perhaps the key driver behind the U.S. airport system’s success can be traced to May 13, 1946—the day President Harry S. Truman signed the Federal Airport Act into law.

Singapore Airlines is to resume flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and Tokyo Narita (NRT) as the airline continues to rebuild its U.S. network.

British Airways has announced plans for two additional domestic services this summer alongside frequency increases on 13 short-haul European routes.

Israel’s transportation authority said it suspended the air traffic to and from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International (TLV) on May 11 after a barrage of rockets were fired on the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

A route to Star Alliance partner United Airlines’ Newark hub will start later this month.

Singapore Airlines is restoring its first fifth freedom flight to the US since the start of the pandemic.

Two new domestic leisure routes are being added to the carrier’s network, while capacity is being increased on services to 13 European vacation destinations.

Africa’s travel recovery will be fuelled by substantial pent-up demand, according to the “Africa Travel Recovery, Opportunity & Risks Research Brief”, reports Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics Company, written for Africa Travel Week.

Nigerian startup to begin domestic services with an ATR 72-600.

The airline aims to connect Lisbon and Madrid with the Caribbean.

Wizz Air is stepping up competition with Ryanair at Bari in southern Italy, while the Hungarian carrier’s Abu Dhabi offshoot is also growing.