Across Canada and around the world, regional airports play a vital role in connecting their communities to major international airports - and global markets and destinations beyond. The common challenge for these smaller airports, however, is driving awareness within their own community in order to attract and retain strong connectivity to international hubs.
New Routes in China are developing at an unprecedented pace both nationally and internationally and data shows that from 2015 to 2016, 114 new national routes launched in China, while in 2015, 19 new international routes were also created.
A mix of existing and new airline partners officially signed-up to serve the fast-expanding Chinese gateway during a behind closed doors meeting on the opening day of business at World Routes and it is our understanding that there is more news to follow, with at least one other airline set to announce its expansion into Chengdu in the coming days.
The World Routes Strategy Summit highlighted some of the most interesting aspects of aviation across the globe as more than a dozen high-profile speakers debated some of the key topics impacting the aviation business.
While it might seem from the outside that nothing has changed, Malaysia Airlines has been completely reborn as a business over the last 18 months. Now, the carrier is planning a growth trajectory across south-east Asia under the stewardship of former Ryanair executive, Peter Bellew.
The hotly-anticipated World Routes 2016 began today, gathering thousands of key personnel from the aviation industry for three days of meetings, networking, con
Looking longer-term, Birmingham Airport is in a unique position as in ten years’ time it will become the UK’s only HS2 connected airport, growing the catchment into London with high-speed trains serving Birmingham from the capital in around 30 minutes.
With China representing the single largest growth market in the world for the next decade, how can aviation best cater for the rising numbers of tourists.
Speaking at World Routes in Chengdu, our panel of experts took a look at the opportunities and challenges that are being faced in the growth of the Chinese market, what does the growth of this market mean, as well as a brief overview of the impact of the Brexit referendum.
Following news this summer of a further 2.2 billion Euros funding being made available for Berlin Brandenburg Airport’s new terminal’s construction, Germany’s airports are largely optimistic for the future. Here's the view of Munich Airport.
Speaking at the Strategy Summit at World Routes in Chengdu, Steve King, CEO of Black Swan talked the audience through artificial intelligence and the impact it is having on today’s travellers.
In our regular Routes News series we take a look at the people that attend Routes events and find out more about them, their jobs and the current industry issues impacting them.
World Routes provides tourism authorities with an efficient and convenient platform from which to engage with key decision makers from the world’s leading airlines and expand their route network.
Ras Al Khaimah may have not followed the same journey as some of its sister emirates in the UAE, but it has been on a growth trajectory. Not being a producer of oil, it has already developed a diversified economy focused on its industrial sector and is emerging as a new destination on tourism maps with new investment and developments along its coast line.
Tibet Airlines revealed at World Routes that it will introduce a daily link from Sanya, the Chinese beach resort in Hainan province, via Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province and host city for the route development forum, to the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Russia from next year.
The Marseille Provence Airport team is in Chengdu at this year’s World Routes eyeing destinations across the North and eastern part of Europe and an expansion of flights to long-haul markets as potential targets. They are already excited about growth in 2017 after a strong 2016 that has already delivered 17 new scheduled routes.
