Kazakhstan’s Air Astana has resumed flying between the Kazakh capital, Astana, and Kiev, Ukraine—three years after suspending the service in the wake of the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, a Boeing 777-200ER.
Etihad Airways has introduced an Airbus A380 on its second daily flight from Abu Dhabi to New York JFK, replacing a three-class Boeing 777-300ER on one of the airline’s twice-daily services.
International Airlines Group’s (IAG) new long-haul, low-cost carrier (LCC) Level launched flights from Barcelona June 1, with an initial Airbus A330-operated service to Los Angeles.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian will launch flights from Rome Fiumicino (FCO) to three cities in the US—Los Angeles (LAX), New York Newark (EWR) and Oakland, California (OAK)—from November.
United Airlines plans to introduce daily nonstop flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN), effective Oct. 27, subject to government approval.
London Gatwick welcomed the touchdown of the first direct flight between Rwanda and the UK on May 26 with a water arch as the aircraft taxied to the gate at the airport's North Terminal.
Egypt Tourism (Karnak) and Duty-Free Company will open a new revamped duty-free shopping, food and beverage outlets at the New Administrative Capital and Sphinx international airports by the coming fiscal year 2017/2018.
The Department of Environmental Affairs has notified Cape Town International Airport that it has authorised the proposed runway realignment and associated infrastructure planned for the airport.
Air China has partnered with Beijing and Frankfurt airports to develop a new express route between China and Europe, called Easy Way Beijing-Frankfurt, in an effort to enhance its international competitiveness.
A global IT outage across British Airways (BA) May 27 that severely disrupted the airline’s operations and led to widespread cancelations appears to have been caused by a power supply issue, BA CEO Alex Cruz said.
