In response to increased demand, Qatar Airways will connect Berlin Tegel and Doha in September and October 2017 on a daily basis with the Boeing 777-300ER.
US transportation secretary Elaine Chao said FAA cannot both increase the country’s air system capacity and maintain safety in its current configuration.
Industry bodies representing European airlines and airports have broadly welcomed the implementing details of the European Commission’s aviation strategy.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) still expects to receive its first Airbus A350 XWB by the end of this year, but is no longer planning to put the widebody on Kuala Lumpur-Auckland routes, the carrier’s CEO said this week.
Finnair believes it can compete with Air China in connecting Chinese passengers to Cuba when it launches Helsinki-Havana flights in December, CEO Pekka Vauramo said.
The European Commission has detailed how it plans to implement its aviation strategy, fleshing out plans for competition regulation, ownership and control, mitigation of air traffic control (ATC) strikes, and public service obligation (PSO) routes.
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.
