The official inaugural flight will leave Mauritius today with an important delegation. The ”Air Corridor” project aims at creating enhanced air links between Africa and Asia using Mauritius and Singapore as hubs.
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Airports Council International (ACI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work on airport security.
When it comes to Europe, particularly across the East, low cost carriers have dominated the industry. But the boom certainly isn’t over just yet. Last year, we witnessed Ryanair become the number one airline operating from Poland, after overtaking the national carrier LOT Polish Airlines and with predictions that European low-cost carriers (LCCs) will continue to outgrow their full service airline rivals, what can we now expect from the region?
The major US carrier is making strides in one of the fastest growing markets in the world, with a third secondary Chinese city route in their schedule. United will serve routes to Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu and now Hangzhou.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has announced initiatives with both local airlines and the Japanese aviation authorities to improve aircraft traffic management and tracking across the region.
Already this year, Europe has seen a significant increase on passenger traffic across its airport networks, with figures showing January 2016 grew by an average of +6.3%. With passenger growth expected to be a continuing trend, airport hubs across the continent must now adapt to meet these new demands.
The year round, four times weekly service to Aberdeen is Icelandair’s second gateway in Scotland, and sixth in the UK. The new route was announced after the city successfully hosted last year's Routes Europe.
Gulf Air is set to increase its direct Sialkot, Pakistan, service from two to four weekly flights starting from 1st December 2016 to meet high passenger demand.
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is hoping to boost German tourists flying to the country by leading a delegation at the International Tourism Bourse (ITB) in Berlin.
Dubai-based low-cost-carrier (LCC) flydubai will transfer more flights to Al Maktoum International-Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) to create additional slots for Emirates Airline at the congested Dubai International Airport (DXB), Emirates president Tim Clark told ATW.
United Airlines and Air New Zealand announced a joint venture revenue-sharing agreement, deepening the partnership between the two Star Alliance members.
Reps. Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) and Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the chairmen of two key US House of Representatives committees, have introduced legislation extending FAA’s authorization through July 15.
The Gulf carrier will be able to hold claim to the world’s longest commercial flight, as well as beginning new services in Europe, Africa and South West Pacific / Southeast Asia
Airlines for America (A4A) strongly criticized the FAA reauthorization bill proposed in the US Senate, saying it “seeks to reregulate airline industry pricing and service provisions.”
Emirates cannot hold claim to the world’s longest route – a service from their hub in Dubai to Auckland, New Zealand – for much longer. Fellow Gulf carrier, Qatar Airways have announced their service from Doha to Auckland to begin in December.
Speaking at the general assembly of ACI World, Airports Council International, held in Montreal, TAV Airports President & CEO Şener told how the crisis after the terrorist attack to Istanbul Atatürk Airport had been managed.
Dubai International (DXB) welcomed a record 7.7 million passengers in August, eclipsing its previous record achieved in July, according to the monthly traffic report issued today by operator Dubai Airports.
The top Republican and top Democrat on the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee have introduced a bipartisan FAA reauthorization bill that does not include any proposal to remove air traffic control (ATC) from FAA, delivering a serious blow to the effort to create an independent ATC corporation.
