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.
A passenger who believed he had missed his Ryanair flight from Madrid’s Barajas Airport took matters into his own hands in his attempts to travel to Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa.
Despite making its retreat from the European market back in 2012 due to high fuel costs, airport taxes and weak demand, it has been AirAsia X’s ambition to return to the Continent with more fuel efficient twin engine equipment once market conditions improved.
Delta Air Lines said it started Wednesday, Aug. 10 operations with a little over 150 systemwide cancellations, with expectations that normal operations would return by mid-to-late afternoon.
Air Seychelles and Air Madagascar have strengthened their codeshare cooperation with the aim of bringing more travellers to both Seychelles and Madagascar, while increasing travel choice in the Indian Ocean.
Have you wondered what enticed an airline to a certain destination? What the data says about demand on the city pair and connecting markets? What external factors may have influenced the airline in selecting a specific city pair? How this business case differs from others? Our new ‘Route Case’ offering will seek to provide the answers all within a single 20 minute meeting slot at our events.
Indonesian low-cost carrier (LCC) AirAsia X (AAX) wants further relaxation of flight limits on routes from Malaysia to Australia, as the LCC sees this market as one of its major growth oportunities.
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines will evaluate 6X-weekly Vienna-Los Angeles services from 2017, which would become Austrian's first route to the US West Coast.
Germany’s Lufthansa has confirmed an incident involving a near-miss between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, and a Lufthansa Airbus A321 on approach to Munich Airport Aug. 4.
Dubai International's (DXB) passenger traffic reached a record 40.5 million passengers in the first half of 2016 according to the traffic report issued today by operator Dubai Airports.
It was believed that Air China, one of the ‘Big Three’ in the country, was considering taking a considerable minority stake in LOT Polish Airlines. The Eastern European carrier has now denied this, claiming that any link with the Chinese carrier would be “simply commercial cooperation.”
Taking place on Monday 26 September, the World Routes Tourism Summit will provide delegates with an insight into the current state of the tourism industry.
