Airports & Networks

By Ellie Wells
China Southern Airlines, Shandong Airlines and Jeju Air are the latest carriers to register for the only route development event dedicated to the Asia-Pacific region.
Airports & Networks

By Catherine Makrandreou
Airline network planners will be able to vote from Monday, 29 January...
Airports & Networks

Cape Town International Airport has opened a retail outlet at the airport’s domestic departures area that sells unique African merchandise, as part of the Goodbye Malaria initiative.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The much-delayed Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) will be formally established in the coming days, but can it achieve its aims of creating a unified air transport market in Africa?
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Fierce competition has forced Air Seychelles to cut its Paris route, which generates 30% of revenue, as well as two Airbus A330s and an undisclosed number of staff under a wide-ranging restructuring plan.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
LCC Norwegian remains confident of its future despite concerns in some quarters that its aggressive route expansion strategy may not be sustainable, the airline’s CFO said Jan. 24.
Airports & Networks

By Jens Flottau
New Argentine startup Flybondi plans to grow its fleet to around 30 aircraft by the end of 2021 as the ultra-LCC prepares for its first commercial flight.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
United Airlines has outlined stronger than expected capacity growth as part of plans to drive higher connectivity at its major hubs in Chicago, Houston and Routes Americas 2015 host Denver.
Airports & Networks

China Express Airlines has secured approval for an initial public offering (IPO) to expand its fleet, becoming the first regional carrier in China to launch an IPO.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Wesley Charnock
City could exceed ten million international seats in the year it launches a new global strategy to connect with the world.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) Group plans to boost international, domestic and air cargo frequencies in its 2018 fiscal year, in “response to increased air travel demand on a global scale,” the company said.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia and UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic have gained permission to codeshare on the Australian carrier’s flights from Hong Kong and the US to Australia.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Korean Air expects its planned joint venture (JV) with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines to allow it to compete more effectively for transpacific connecting traffic.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Capacity between Canada and China has steadily increased in recent years and the two countries' Year of Tourism will seek to further develop air links.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
Load factors, revenue and PAX all rise amid European insolvencies.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
British Airways owner IAG has lost out on an acquisition of Austrian leisure airline Niki to its founder Niki Lauda, the former Formula One champion.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
Stakeholders at New York JFK International Airport were told to implement new interim emergency operational measures “immediately” to avoid a repeat of the calamities seen at JFK Airport during and after the Jan. 4 winter storm, according to directives issued Jan. 18 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ).
Airports & Networks

China Eastern Airlines and XiamenAir have called on Taiwan’s aviation authority (CAA) to reconsider approving 176 additional cross-strait flights for the upcoming Spring Festival Feb. 2-March 2.
Airports & Networks

Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, has reopened following a five-day suspension of flights amid fighting in the country’s civil war.
Airports & Networks

By Bradley Perrett
Tianjin Airlines plans to connect Los Angeles with two Chinese secondary cities beginning in December.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
There has been no shortage of new airlines entering the Americas market in recent years but only a handful have survived. Routesonline looks at some of the carriers set to start operations in 2018 – can they succeed where others have failed?
Airports & Networks

By Nigel Mayes
This week: VLM Airlines, Icelandair and Emirates are each set to resume routes previously operated.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Four of the top six fastest-growing major airlines in the world over the past year were low-cost carriers, new research by Routesonline has found, highlighting their ongoing disruptive force on the industry. The analysis reveals the ten carriers which have grown their capacity the quickest.
Airports & Networks

By Nigel Mayes
From big mergers to the emergence of next-generation airlines, ASM's Nigel Mayes makes five predictions on what might shake the aviation world in 2018.
Airports & Networks

American Airlines is taking its northeast US shuttle product and placing it on the New York LaGuardia (LGA)-Chicago O’Hare (ORD) route from April 4 in what airline executives said could be a precursor to more shuttle offerings.
Airports & Networks