Expanded concession areas, a new security hall, an extended pedestrian bridge and 1,400 additional premium parking spaces are all part of the ambitious $248 million expansion plan – the most money invested into the airport in nearly a decade.
With last week’s announcement from Emirates Airline on the further deployment of its expanding Airbus A380 fleet, including its new more densely configured two-class arrangement; Routesonline has investigated what are the main destinations in the airline’s global network, based on estimated passenger demand.
While a growing number of Emirates Airline passengers are beginning or ending their journeys in Dubai, a significant proportion of Emirates traffic simply uses Dubai as a transit point between two other points.
The airline will replace a Boeing 777-300ER on the carrier’s EK011/012 between Dubai International and London Gatwick with a three-class A380 from January 1, 2016 meaning all three of its rotations to Gatwick and five daily flights to Heathrow will be flown with the SuperJumbo from the start of 2016.
The Dubai – Orlando route will be flown on a daily basis using a Boeing 777-200LR, although Emirates will deploy its flagship Airbus A380-800 on the inaugural rotation on September 1, 2015; the first time the Super Jumbo will operate a scheduled passenger service into Orlando International Airport.
Flights were initially intended to commence operation in February, but this was delayed, and now the airline is planning to launch on September 2, 2015 from the Namibian capital.
Oman Air is set to dramatically increase the number of flights it offers between Muscat and Salalah during southern Oman's monsoon season, known as the Khareef. The increase will mean that Oman Air operates more flights to Salalah than ever before.
Qatar Airways celebrated 10 years of successful service to Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa last week, hosting trade receptions and inaugurating a new office in Cape Town, whilst revealing details of its enhanced services to South Africa as part of its expanding global operations.
The first Routes Middle East and Africa event was held in Bahrain on the May 31 – June 2, 2015 and one exhibitor was Oman Airport looking to build direct routes with African carriers.
The new aircraft, which is set to arrive in March 2016, will support the new services between the Bulgarian capital and Alicante, Bristol, Hamburg Lubeck and Oslo Torp, which will be served with two weekly flights each.
The airline will initially offer two weekly flights to San Jose’s Santamaria International Airport from May 4, 2016, but already plans to add a third weekly rotation during the winter 2016/2017 schedules. This will be the second long-haul link between the UK and Costa Rica adding to the weekly Thomson Airways service between London Gatwick and Liberia, which will launch in November this year.
The Y18 billion ($145 million) plan will see current shareholder Integral Corporation hold a 50.1 per cent stake in the low-cost carrier, with UDS Airlines Investment – a joint venture between SMBC and Development Bank of Japan –holding a 33.4 per cent shareholding and ANA a 16.5 per cent stake.
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) low-cost carrier (LCC) subsidiary Scoot will take over the 4X-weekly Hangzhou route, which currently served by its regional affiliate SilkAir, from Oct. 25.
Air travel to and from Greece has been heavily affected as air traffic controllers went on a four-hour strike Aug. 5 at the height of the European summer tourism season.
Travelling between Doha and Dubai is about to get a whole lot smoother with the introduction of Qatar Airways' newest offering, the Doha-Dubai Shuttle. Having launched this week, the Doha-Dubai Shuttle will offer flights from Doha's Hamad International Airport to Dubai International Airport, as well as Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai.
With an objective to support the ongoing development of key airport infrastructure facilities in the UAE and across the Middle East, Smiths Detection, will showcase its next generation detection and security solutions at the Airport Show 2015 in Dubai.
Celebrating its 83rd anniversary, EgyptAir has announced offering its customers special rates for flights from Egypt to worldwide starting EGP 300, and from Africa, Europe, Middle East, the Far East and North America to Egypt starting USD 30 excluding any taxes and surcharges.
The US Patent and Trademark Office recently approved the application from Airbus for the new jet, which says it will travel at 4.5 times the speed of sound – more than 2,500mph according to the documents lodged.
Frontier Airlines is one of a number of budget operators across the glove to introduce the variant, the largest member of the Airbus A320 Family, into its fleet this year.
US exports made possible through Open Skies agreements will contribute $900 billion and 347,000 jobs to the US economy, according to a study commissioned by FedEx to support its opposition to the anti-Gulf carrier campaign headed by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
