Airports & Networks

Zambia has, for the past few years, been engaged in major infrastructure development projects to upgrade the country's four international airports. Keith Mwanalushi checks in on progress at the main gateway – Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.

Finavia is taking a radically different approach to online marketing, and it is getting results. Luke Bilton finds out more.

Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) will open its first lounge for kids at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport Aug. 11.

Russia’s new Platov International Airport, which will serve Rostov-on-Don, will begin aircraft testing from Oct. 16-Nov. 20, as it prepares for a December 2017 opening.

China’s HNA Group—parent of Hainan Airlines—has completed an 82.5% stake purchase in Frankfurt-Hahn Airport to facilitate its European expansion.

We sat down with Mike St Laurent, ASM’s vice president of consulting, to discuss how delegates can maximise the effectiveness of their airline meetings at World Routes.

Airlink is expected to carry out a 'proving flight' to St Helena on Monday, 21 August 2017, using an Embraer E190-100IGW aircraft.

Ahead of this year's World Routes we want to understand the issues shaping the route development and the aviation industry – and we’d like your views.

This week: Nashville secures its first transatlantic service; Thai AirAsia expands in India; and Israel demand prompts a new Blue Air route.

US regional airline Endeavor Air is preparing to expand its route network after parent company Delta Air Lines confirmed plans to transfer 31 aircraft to the carrier from ExpressJet Airlines.

Sanctions-hit Qatar has announced a programme to allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries as it seeks to encourage air transport.

Delta Air Lines has broken ground on a 37-gate terminal at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) that will replace two aging terminal facilities.

Qatar Airways will take delivery of its first Airbus A350-1000 by the end of 2017, the Gulf carrier’s CEO confirmed Aug. 9.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continued its federally mandated implementation of facial recognition biometric exit technology at US airports this week with new deployments at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport (LAS) and Houston’s William P. Hobby International Airport (HOU).

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) launched daily Bombardier CSeries services from Zurich to London City Airport (LCY) Aug. 8, becoming the first airline to serve LCY with the type.

Indonesian low-cost carrier Lion Air is to open nine new connections between the south east Asian nation and Saudi Arabia.

Gulf Air today will increase its Moscow service from four weekly to daily flights with a new operating schedule that will come into effect in the last week of October, coinciding with the airline's three-year anniversary of direct, nonstop service to/from Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital.

Airline Routes-Aug. 8, 2017

Germany’s Frankfurt Airport now offers a selection of movies and gaming activities for waiting passengers in Piers A and Z in Terminal 1. Both are free services.

Hainan Airlines plans to open six international routes soon as the Haikou-based carrier continues its expansion to meet the increasing demand of Chinese outbound travelers.

Fourteen years after first taking to the skies, there appears to be no slowdown in demand for Air Arabia’s low-cost model across the Middle East and North Africa.

Oman Air has launched a third daily flight on its popular Muscat to Mumbai route.

Libya's Rahila Air has outlined its proposed operational plans which involve the dry-lease of a single A320-200, reports ch-aviation.

ADB SAFEGATE has transformed the runway at Goma International Airport, partners with MONUSCO in Democratic Republic of Congo, to improve operational efficiency and throughput.

The upgraded Victoria Falls International Airport in Zimbabwe has started attracting major airlines flying the latest wide-body aircraft. Humphrey Nkonde reports.