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Year-on-year global passenger traffic rose 4.6 percent in January, figures released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have revealed, but the growth was the slowest increase in nearly four years.
Qatar Airways will add its Airbus A350-1000 to the New York JFK route starting 28 October 2018, the airline’s first commercial route to the U.S. operated with this state-of-the-art aircraft.
Emirates and Trenitalia, Italy’s national railway company, have entered a new codeshare agreement which will enable Emirates customers from across its worldwide network to discover new destinations across Italy.
Irish LCC Ryanair is more optimistic that flights between the UK and the European Union (EU) will not come to a grinding halt when the country leaves the bloc (Brexit) in March 2019.
In an opening address at the World ATM Congress on March 6, Spanish minister of public works Íñigo de la Serna announced that Spain will reduce the route charge airlines pay to use its airspace by 3% this year and 12% in 2019.
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh has been approached by several companies interested in partnering to manage a terminal at London Heathrow Airport.
Norwegian has so far concentrated on expanding its transatlantic services into the US and Argentina, but Canada appears to be next on the radar of the long-haul low-cost carrier - and its first routes to the North American country could be just months away.
Space-based tracking of aircraft is a technology equalizer that offers nations lacking radar infrastructure a way to quickly improve their surveillance capability, ICAO council president Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said.
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air will add two more Airbus A321s to its Vienna, Austria base in early 2019, bringing the total number of aircraft based there to five.
Panama City-based Copa Airlines expects to start service out of Tocumen International Airport’s new Terminal 2 (T2) in November and be “fully operational” in the new facility by mid-2019, the airline’s top executive said.
The Delta-Aeromexico transborder joint venture (JV) began offering ultra-low-cost fares March 5 as Aeromexico launched its “branded fares” concept and Delta Air Lines touted the increasing range of basic economy fares on what is now more than 50% of Delta’s US-Mexico flights.
Ryanair and Aer Lingus plan to launch connecting flights this year, a spokeswoman for Ryanair confirmed, after Irish media reports said the two carriers had signed a deal that would help boost passenger numbers through Dublin.
