Qatar Airways’ award-winning Qsuite officially landed at Washington, D.C.’s Washington Dulles International Airport on 6 January 2018, making the capital city the second U.S. destination to offer the innovative new Business Class product.
Emirates and Flydubai will offer travellers more connectivity and flight options in 2018, with new codeshare flights planned to Krakow in Poland from 8 April, and Catania in Italy from 13 June.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will meet Sept. 25 to determine the probable cause of a near miss on landing last year involving an Air Canada Airbus A320 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
Russia’s Rossiya Airlines plans to transfer a group of flights from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport to the capital’s main airport, Sheremetyevo, at the start of the 2018/19 winter season.
Our top five stories this week: Top ten fastest-growing airlines; Icelandair CEO departs; Jet Airways adds domestic routes; Route rundown; Laudamotion to double its fleet and more.
Eight of the top ten fastest-growing major airlines during the first half of the year were low-cost carriers, new research by Routesonline has found, with an Indian operator leading the way.
Irish regional carrier CityJet has taken a further significant step away from its previous business model as a scheduled carrier to a capacity provider for others.
French leisure carrier Corsair will cease flying its route between Paris Orly and Senegal’s capital of Dakar after the Senegalese authorities announced they wished to reserve the route for the African nation’s new national carrier.
Dublin Airport is enjoying a period of record passenger growth as it continues to add frequencies on existing routes and secure new transatlantic services.
Calgary-based WestJet will add frequencies by its ultra-LCC subsidiary Swoop to the Edmonton-Winnipeg market, which already boasts its own mainline service as well as regional and ULCC frequencies.
The Zambia Airports Corporation Limited (ZACL) has made progress in upgrading infrastructure at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport as the country prepares to revive the national airline. Humphrey Nkonde reports.
Indian carrier Jet Airways is planning to grow its domestic presence over the coming months as it seeks to revive its fortunes. Separately, the Indian government has published draft proposals to extend its UDAN regional air connectivity scheme to international routes.
FAA, in its fourth round of US airport infrastructure grants for 2018, has released an additional $616.9 million in funding, lifting the total airport improvement program (AIP) awards announced year-to-date to $2.7 billion.
British Airways’ (BA) regional airline, BA CityFlyer, is to base four more Embraer E190s at London City Airport in 2019, adding 20% more capacity from the downtown London airport.
French airports operator Vinci Airports has secured regulatory clearance to acquire a package of airports from US-based company Airports Worldwide, although Juan Santamaria International Airport in San José has been dropped from the deal.
Laudamotion will double its Airbus fleet next year after Ryanair completed a deal to buy 75 percent of the Austrian leisure airline from former racing driver Niki Lauda.
California Pacific Airlines (CPA)—the Kennesaw, Georgia-based Part 121 operator and formerly known as Aerodynamics Inc. (ADI)—plans to launch nonstop service in several Western US markets from a base at McClellan–Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California, starting Nov. 1.
