As the Kareef season approaches the southern parts of the Sultanate of Oman, Oman Air, the national airline for the Sultanate of Oman, is catering for the increased demand by adding to its frequency and capacity between Muscat and Salalah.
Emirates has marked 30 years of operations in the UK by announcing that it is on track to carry 5 million passengers between the UK and Dubai in the 2017/18 financial year, making it a record year for the airline.
Although the three largest US carriers are stepping up their lobbying efforts with the new administration to curtail Gulf carriers’ access to the US, the CEOs of two smaller US airlines are resolute in their continuing support for US open skies policy.
It is no secret that New York-based low-cost carrier (LCC) JetBlue Airways is considering transatlantic flights, but the mix of premium and economy seats the LCC could offer on those flights remains a subject of internal debate.
Radixx International, an industry-leading provider of custom tailored airline reservation, distribution and merchandising systems, has said that it is now working with Oman's first budget airline, SalamAir.
Gulf Air in partnership with the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA) and Voyager Gulf Air's General Sales Agent (GSA) in Georgia, recently hosted key members of Bahrain's travel trade industry at the Movenpick Hotel Bahrain, aimed at informing guests of the airline's upcoming route launch to Tbilisi on June 22 and promoting Georgia as a destination for every kind of traveller.
The Trump administration has proposed its Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative June 5, formally setting forth a plan to remove US air traffic control (ATC) from FAA oversight, replacing it with a non-profit, independent entity.
Success in Cuba is a “middle- to long-term” prospect for airlines, particularly for US carriers that launched service to Cuba after the market was reopened to US commercial flights last year, according to IATA regional VP-Americas Peter Cerda.
Russia’s S7 Airlines announced a codeshare agreement with newly launched Cyprus Airways, which began operations June 1 with a Larnaca-St. Petersburg Airbus A319 service.
US bookings for travel to the Middle East collapsed in the wake of President Trump's travel ban, according to ForwardKeys, which monitors future travel patterns by analysing 16 million flight reservation transactions each day.
