The latest issue of Routes News magazine features how Virgin Atlantic's growth is linked to Heathrow’s expansion, Icelandair's planned Cape Verde shake-up, how Italy is preparing for the future and the demise of the Airbus A380.
Seeing demand from the growing Chinese market, Korean Air has announced that it will launch Incheon-Nanjing, Hangzhou and Zhangjiajie in the remaining months of 2019.
Garuda Indonesia low-cost subsidiary Citilink is considering long-haul flights to Frankfurt and Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah, after receiving new Airbus A330neos toward the last quarter of 2019.
SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) sees the 100 projects it had already completed by February 2019 as instrumental in reducing European air transport delays by 6.2 million min. by 2030.
Two airports in Turkish company TAV’s portfolio have been ranked among the best in Europe. Skopje Airport is awarded in the category of “2 million or less passengers” and Zagreb Airport is awarded in the category of 2 to 5 million passengers annually.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Abu Dhabi Airports has reaffirmed its commitment to accelerating the advancement of women in the workplace and recognised their significant contribution to the development of the aviation sector.
Russia’s Aeroflot Airline and Ural Airlines were forced to cancel or delay flights to Prague July 2 because of an unsolved dispute over Trans-Siberian rights between Russia and Czech Republic.
The popular Fiji leisure market is seeing some significant changes as Fiji Airways plans to suspend an Australian route and Korean Air terminates flights to Fiji.
Gulf Air has revealed its first new destination for 2019 being Malaga - Costa del Sol in Spain. Commencing 14 June and operating until 15 September 2019, Malaga will be added as a seasonal summer destination as the airline continues revealing throughout the year its further network expansion plans for 2019.
Routes Silk Road returns to the aviation calendar at a time of rising optimism in the region, buoyed by a strong Russian market and growth among some of the smaller countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Kenya Airways plans to launch Nairobi-Beijing flights in 2020, an addition made possible by slots the SkyTeam alliance carrier says it will gain at the new Daxing International Airport.
Budweis International Airport, located in the South Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, has opened its terminal as part of an audit-and-test phase that will lead to flight operations starting in spring 2020.
American Airlines has returned 14 weekly frequencies it used for flights between Chicago and both Beijing and Shanghai, citing an inability to restart the economically challenging services “in the near future” after suspending them last year.
Qatar Airways Cargo has commenced freighter services to Guadalajara, Mexico, expanding its network in the Americas region. The new destination is being served by the airline’s Boeing 777 freighter.
Aviation is a strategic priority for Tourism Australia in hitting its wider tourism aims of growing overnight visitor expenditure. Phillipa Harrison, the organisation’s acting managing director, outlines the key international markets being targeted as well as why Adelaide is hosting World Routes 2019.
Routesonline provides an update on the operations of the Airbus A380. We also reveal the network size of each operator and the top destinations served by the aircraft type.
The chairmen of two US House committees overseeing aviation security have introduced legislation that would require TSA to implement an improved covert testing program to identify security gaps in its screening process.
