Lucky Air is among the members of the HNA Group’s U-FLY low-cost alliance and its rise into the intercontinental market could represent the arrival of a new breed of Chinese low-cost, long-haul operations. The airline has requested rights from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to introduce flights from its Yunnan province base to both Los Angeles and Moscow.
A new cement grouting procedure used at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) airport has resulted in “a significant improvement in [the number and] incidence of soil depressions” with a concurrent reduction in standing water, or ponding, airport operator Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB) said.
Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana is aiming to boost its connecting traffic between Asia and Eastern Europe by up 24,000 passengers by the end of 2017, following the opening of a new Almaty-Teheran route earlier this month.
Alaska Airlines will significantly expand at Newark Liberty International Airport and introduce new services from Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California from the start of November 2016, with new service to San Jose, California beginning in March 2017.
Kuwait-based hybrid carrier Jazeera Airways has been granted approval by the emirate’s government for the necessary land on which to build a dedicated terminal at Kuwait International Airport.
In a formal request to Airport Coordination Limited (ACL), the body responsible for slot allocation, schedules facilitation and schedule data collection at Manchester, Singapore Airlines has requested to double its operations at Manchester with two arriving and two departing flights each morning.
A new fifth daytime slot pair for scheduled service to and from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo has been preliminary awarded to Delta Air Lines for flights from Minneapolis-St Paul, ahead of another Delta proposition from Atlanta, American Airlines from Dallas and United Airlines from Newark.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) on July 20 gave tentative approval to American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, and United Airlines as proposed final candidates for daytime service to Tokyo Haneda Airport.
New York Newark International Airport (EWR) will become the sixth major US airport to have what the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is calling “automated” screening lanes installed.
Lufthansa Group is in talks to potentially buy routes from German low-cost carrier (LCC) airberlin, according to a report by German financial newspaper Handelsblatt.
Japanese low-cost carrier (LCC) Vanilla Air has taken a major step in its effort to develop Taipei as a focus city, launching its first international one-stop flight beyond Taipei.
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has reported a 5.1% rise in passenger numbers for the first six months of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015.
Turkish Airlines’ flights to the US are banned through Aug. 31 following an FAA notice issued in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in Turkey, though FAA confirmed it can cancel the ban at any time.
Passengers’ difficulty accessing Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) efficiently via surrounding roadways is a “huge, huge problem we need to fix,” according to Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) CEO Deborah Flint.
Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico has been attending Routes events for more than ten years and places a big emphasis on the role of relationships within the route development process including utilising the ‘city pair’ meeting offering with great success.
Airline operations to, from and within Turkey came to a complete standstill Saturday by an attempted military coup that left the country in chaos. But the CEO of Turkish Airlines told ATW that his airline expected to operate about half of its Istanbul schedule Saturday.
