Following its award of a license in the Moroccan National Airports Authority (ONDA) FBO tender, Jetex will launch five new fixed base operator (FBO) facilities in Casablanca Mohammed V, Marrakech Menara, Rabat-Salé, Agadir-Al Massira and Dakhla airports.
The grouping brings together many of the smaller low-cost operators across the Asia Pacific region and the partnership will allow them to better compete with some of the largest budget carriers like IndiGo in India, AirAsia across multiple countries and Qantas subsidiary Jetstar Airways across both the Asia and Pacific markets.
More than two years after Norwegian’s Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International (NAI) applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a US foreign carrier permit, DOT finally gave tentative approval in April. But the waiting continues as labor groups log more protests.
More than two years after Norwegian’s Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International (NAI) applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a US foreign carrier permit, DOT finally gave tentative approval in April. But the waiting continues as labor groups log more protests.
BA previously served Santiago between 1993 and 2000 but as a tag on its flights into Buenos Aires. The new non-stop offering from London at 14 hours 40 minutes is nearly an hour longer than BA’s current longest flight of 13 hours 50 minutes to Buenos Aires and covers a distance of approximately 11,645km, versus the 11,085km for the London - Buenos Aires city pair.
Airlines for America (A4A) has called on the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to publicly release data on security screening checkpoint wait times at airports, and rejected the notion that airlines’ checked bag fees are to blame for extremely long security lines.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) will create a different business and service model for its Airbus A380s, which will begin to come into the fleet in 2018, president and CEO Osamu Shinobe told ATW in Tokyo.
The expanded offering will boost its available capacity by 19 percent to 450,000 annual seats and will include a new twice weekly link to the recent Routes Europe host city, Kraków, in Poland. It will also extend summer routes to Faro, Gran Canaria and Malta into the winter schedule, adding to its current flights to Alicante, Malaga and Tenerife.
There has been a steady increase year-on-year in the number of Hong Kong and China travellers visiting New Zealand. According to official figures from Statistics New Zealand, as of March 2016, the total number of visitors from Hong Kong and China were up 19.1 percent and 27.8 percent, respectively.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded Hawaiian Airlines the right to operate between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Honolulu and Kona, Hawaii.
The UK has always been one of the key markets for Oman Air and is one of just five country markets it serves in Europe. The airline currently offers flights to Frankfurt and Munich in Germany; Milan in Italy; Paris in France, Zurich in Switzerland and London, with the airline describing the UK capital as a flagship route.
The link will be operated using a 180-seat Airbus A320 and is being launched to meet growing demand for holidays to the region. It marks the carrier’s return to a market it previously served between March 2006 and July 2008, according to schedules data from OAG.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has put forward a plan to address increasingly long lines at security checkpoints at major US airports, but also is asking for patience from air travelers.
Vietnam Airlines and part-owned subsidiary Cambodia Angkor Air are looking to “substantially increase” domestic services in both countries, as well as expand regional services to nearby Asian countries.
