Jiangxi Airlines—the new venture of Xiamen Airlines in conjunction with the Jiangxi provincial government—is expected to launch flights in January 2016, according to GM Wu Xiangyang. It secured approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China in March 2015.
The low-fare carrier will introduce a three times weekly link between Bristol and its Keflavik International Airport hub from May 13, 2016 using an A320. This flight will connect via a short stopover in Reykjavik to the carrier’s long-haul flights to Baltimore, Boston and new routes starting in 2016 to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States and Montreal and Toronto in Canada.
Under its revised schedule, Oman Air will introduce second daily rotations between Muscat and Bangalore and Kochi; will boost weekly frequencies between Muscat and Lucknow from seven to eleven; will increase flights between Muscat and Jaipur to ten weekly from the current daily offering; and will add one additional weekly flight on the Muscat – Goa route to offer a daily schedule.
As Ndola, on Zambia's Copperbelt, waits for a new $500 million ultra-modern airport, the management team at its current airport, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International (NLA), are hoping to offer 21st century aviation services using vintage infrastructure. Humphrey Nkonde reports.
After guiding Hawaiian through Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring from 2003-2005, he has overseen the airline’s steady operational and financial performance and, since 2010, its ambitious international expansion.
Somewhat lost in the consolidation wave that has transformed the US airline industry in recent years has been the dramatic evolution of Hawaiian Airlines, which is quickly becoming a true international carrier. “I can’t think of any other airline that has changed as much as Hawaiian without being involved in a merger,” president and CEO Mark Dunkerley said.
For most airlines, the only time they fanfare route announcements is when they are launching new destinations. Delta Air Lines, however, has bucked the trend by trumpeting that it will end its Atlanta-Dubai Boeing 777 service in February.
The recent geopolitical summit of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders in Manila, Philippines, caused the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights out of Manila's Ninoy Aquino International (NAI) Airport, and an estimated $2 billion loss in overall revenue.
Etihad Airways has signed a research agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Institute of Science and Technology to develop a fog prediction and monitoring system at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Under the terms of the revised agreement, designated Australian and UAE airlines will be able to operate an extra 14 weekly frequencies between the two countries from October 2016, up from the seven offered as part of a previous deal. Alongside the fast-expanding UAE national entities, this will permit Qantas and Virgin Australia to also boost its flights to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, markets its currently serves in partnership with the two Gulf carriers.
Subject to final approval and the green light from North Korean authorities, Spring Airlines will be one of only a handful of carriers to provide international flights into the North Korean market. This market has been mainly served by national carrier Air Koryo, although the likes of Air China, China Southern Airlines have offered scheduled programmes into the country with Air China currently linking Pyongyang to Beijing.
Australia has signed a new air services agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that increases flights between the two countries, although the UAE carriers are far more likely to use the additional frequencies.
Air New Zealand will launch 3X-weekly service from Auckland International to Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from June 2016.
Following a year-long consultation, the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation (MOT) has rejected Lion Group's proposal to create a new four-runway airport at Lebak, Banten province near Jakarta.
Four years after its first flight to Hawaii, Allegiant Air will end its costly experiment, saying it will pull out of Honolulu in August 2016 and retire all of its Boeing 757s by 2017.
Airberlin, which is undergoing an extensive restructuring process, will cut all domestic routes from its Palma de Mallorca hub as well as from Ibiza to the Spanish mainland and to Portugal, a spokesperson confirmed to ATW.
The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 232 airports worldwide - current through Nov. 19, 2015 - presented in monthly and year-to-date figures.
The next big event in the route development calendar is Routes Americas in February. With attention turning to the host island, Puerto Rico, it’s an opportune moment to explore how the local market is performing.
As the Official Carrier for Routes Americas 2016, Copa Airlines are offering a discount on all flights to San Juan, exclusive to Routes Americas delegates.
