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US start-up California Pacific Airlines, the brainchild of 97-year-old entrepreneur Ted Vallas, is set to take to the skies during the fourth quarter after several years of false dawns.

In response to the rapid growth of the drone and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) market worldwide, Airports Council International (ACI) World has today launched a policy paper on drones providing informed and practical recommendations for airports.

Royal Schiphol Group, operator of Amsterdam Schiphol, has said that the two sides in an ongoing industrial dispute at the airport must get together “with extreme urgency” to avert a threatened 24-hour strike.

Amidst an ongoing expansion project expected to double its annual passenger throughput capacity by 2025, Shanghai International Airport Corporation reported a net profit of CNY2.022 billion ($305.3 million) for the first half of 2018, up 19.2% year-over-year.

LCC AirAsia is looking to expand its network to the US west coast from 2020, using Japan as a transit hub.

Chinese authorities are encouraging private investment as part of a policy to encourage non-government money into civil aviation infrastructure.

Russia and Finland aviation authorities have agreed to increase flight frequencies from 35X- to 42-X per week on the Moscow-Helsinki route.

Nordic LCC Primera Air is continuing with its long-haul expansion, adding non-stop long-haul services from Brussels to Boston, New York/Newark and Washington Dulles.

Dubai World Central handled under 1 million passengers last year. But the airport’s operators have completed an expansion that will take its capacity to 26 million.

Istanbul New Airport is scheduled to open Oct. 29 with an initial capacity of 90 million passengers a year and the ability to grow to 200 million.

The growth of LCCS is driving expansion plans by French airports that want to compete with neighboring countries for Europe’s budget carriers.

Joon, the hybrid, lower-cost airline, is Air France’s answer to increasing LCC competition in medium- and long-haul markets and to the Gulf carriers.

The cost to fund major projects at the US top 25 airports has rates and charges on track to rise significantly in the next three years, adding as much as $4 to airline cost-per-enplanement (CPE) figures, a Moody's analysis shows.

Spanish flag carrier Iberia is boosting services from its Madrid Barajas hub to six destinations in Latin America from Oct. 27.

Shanghai Airlines plans to put Boeing 787-9s on routes to Singapore and to Melbourne, Australia.

Ryanair is to base two more aircraft at London Luton Airport, the home hub of European low-cost rival easyJet.

Our top five stories this week: Chinese airlines to top 600 million passenger milestone; American Airlines makes Asia and Europe changes; meet the route development heroes of 2018 and more.

This week: Finnair resumes Los Angeles after 27 years; Vietjet opens third route to Japan; and Wizz increases Israel routes.

Expanding on the two carriers’ existing codeshare agreement, passengers will have more access into additional cities within Southeast Asia and India.

Hainan Airlines proposes to add extensions from Chongqing to its Shanghai services to Boston and Seattle.

Irish LCC Ryanair is set to increase the size of its base at London Luton Airport, the home hub of rival easyJet, with the addition of two Boeing 737-800NGs,

This week we profile World Routes 2018 attendee WestJet, the Canadian low-cost carrier.

Winner of the Best Stand Award at World Routes 2017, Copenhagen Airports joined forces with Joe and The Juice, a well-known chain of juice bars and coffee shops, and it proved to be a winning formula.

Chinese airlines are this year on course to collectively carry more than 600 million passengers for the first time, research by Routesonline has found, as growth in the country’s domestic and international market continues to accelerate. The figure is a huge increase from the 440 million carried just five years ago.