Airports & Networks

By Thierry Dubois
An IT system outage at French air navigation service provider DSNA on Sept. 1 caused major delays at airports in France and neighboring countries.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter has conducted a test flight at Finland’s Helsinki International Airport with its prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Japanese aviation authorities have revealed how many of the new slots at Tokyo Haneda Airport will be allocated to various international markets, although for the most part specific routes are yet to be announced.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
100 years after the first Australia to UK flight, what impact would a direct London-Sydney flight have on Qantas' network?
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot Russian Airlines is to resume flights to Mumbai, more than a decade after last serving the Indian city.
Airports & Networks

Dubai International (DXB) welcomed 6.9 million customers in November 2018, bringing the hub’s year to date traffic to 81.4 million passengers.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Stakeholders have been invited to comment on plans to create a new hub airport in Poland, known as Solidarity Transport Hub Poland (STH), which will be located between Warsaw and Łódź.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Channel Islands property fund NR Investments has agreed to acquire a 95% of the concession at Moldova’s primary airport, Chisinau International, from current operator Avia Invest.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Capacity at Tanzania’s largest airport has been significantly increased with the opening of a new terminal.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
The renewal of one of the two runways at Dubai International Airport (DXB) led to a 5% dip in passenger throughput in the first half of 2019 compared to the year-ago figure, latest statistics reveal.
Airports & Networks

Air China saw its net profit shrink 9.5% to CNY3.1 billion ($451 million) in the 2019 first half. After factoring non-recurring gain and losses, net profit stood at CNY3 billion, down 3.5% year-over-year (YOY).
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Kenya Airways has posted a KES8.6 billion ($83 million) interim net loss for the first six months of 2019, double the KES4 million net loss for the same period in 2018.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
London Gatwick Airport has started acting on plans to develop its existing northern runway, which is currently used as a standby, so smaller aircraft can depart alongside its main runway by the mid-2020s.
Airports & Networks

By Nigel Mayes
This week: United schedules seasonal Sicily service; FlyBosnia to restore London link; and WestJet adds new Caribbean destination.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Climate-campaign group Heathrow Pause is planning to fly toy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, within London Heathrow Airport’s exclusion zone “from Sept. 13” with the aim of keeping flights grounded.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Korean Air is transitioning its economy check-in procedures to self-service options at South Korean airports, including the two Seoul hubs.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
This week: Relaunched Uganda Airlines takes to the skies; Air Canada to begin year-round Montreal-Toulouse; Holiday Europe launches and more.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
We profile Hawaiian Airlines, the largest airline in the US state of Hawaii and an attendee at World Routes 2019.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Two years after celebrating the 40th anniversary of its service to Copenhagen, Singapore Airlines is set to add more frequencies and introduce a new aircraft on the route. Routesonline spoke to Erwin Widjaja, general manager for Singapore Airlines in the Nordics region, to find out more about the changes.
Airports & Networks

Always innovative in terms of its B2B marketing, Athens International Airport’s Ioanna Papadopoulou has a fresh new creative ready for World Routes in Adelaide, following on from its successful 'Do the mATH' and 'Signature PairFume' campaigns.
Airports & Networks

SITA has been selected to provide key systems to support the smooth opening and operation of Algeria’s new international terminal at Houari Boumediene International Airport.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
After securing new routes to points in Asia and North America, Budapest Airport’s chief commercial officer Kam Jandu reveals the airport's sights are “firmly set” on adding more Chinese markets.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Central European startup FlyBosnia has announced its first European route, after starting services to a cluster of Middle East destinations.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
London's smaller airports are expanding to cope with a steadily growing travel market.
Airports & Networks

The US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has pushed back against allegations that its effort to become a regional air travel hub is part of a broader campaign to obtain cabotage rights for foreign carriers at its international airports.
Airports & Networks