More than 50% of global air traffic today travels through privatized or commercialized airports. Roughly half of that traffic travels through airports that are stock exchange listed, while the remaining half are privatized but not listed. How is their attraction measured?
A Dynamic Airways Boeing 767-200 caught fire on a Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood (Florida) International Airport (FLL) taxiway as it was holding for takeoff to Caracas, Venezuela.
Just as the Middle East’s ‘Big Three’ airlines—Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways—have grown the region’s airline landscape in recent years, so have their airports.
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The market from Europe to Puerto Rico is currently massively underserved, with a significant percentage of indirect passengers already flying between the two markets. In the past 12 months this market size was an estimated 150,000 passengers, with 87 per cent having to travel indirect due to the current limited direct offering across the Atlantic.
After Delta recently reduced service between the world’s busiest airport and the largest international airport, the carrier has now confirmed it will end the route from February 11, 2016. It said the Boeing 777 used on this city pair will be redeployed to other Transatlantic markets where it can “compete on a level playing field that’s not distorted by subsidised state-owned airlines”.
Taiwan-based regional carrier Far Eastern Air Transport (FEAT) is looking to expand from its home base at Taipei's Songshan airport into China, and to replace its aging McDonnell Douglas fleet.
Delta Air Lines announced Wednesday it will cease its Atlanta-Dubai service from Feb. 11, 2016, blaming “overcapacity” from Gulf carriers for the pullout.
Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo believes the biggest challenge for the oneworld member will be to grow further to reach a more competitive size as soon as possible.
St Helena is currently widely regarded as the world's most inaccessible inhabited island, but all this will change in February 2016 with the opening of the first airport on St Helena. The tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean is Britain's second oldest remaining of the British Overseas Territories, after Bermuda, but accessibility has been limited to an almost week long sea journey.
Irish budget carrier, Ryanair is to significantly grow its activities from Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle airports in the UK next year, introducing a total of ten new routes from the three facilities as part of an expanded offering from the summer schedule.
A recent attack from the newly appointed Odessa governor and former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili on the State Aviation Service Administration of Ukraine blaming its chief for using his flight assignment powers to preserve a near-monopolistic grip on the market, while protecting interests of individual oligarchs has resulted in immediate action which could finally bring open skies to Ukraine.
Several carriers are taking over Transaero’s domestic destinations to Russia’s Far East after authorities canceled its air operator’s certificate Oct. 26 due to financial and safety concerns.
SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, will launch its first Airbus A330-200 long-haul flight for Eurowings from Cologne to Varadero, Cuba, on Nov. 2.
The Polish market has contributed significantly to Wizz Air's success with around 40 per cent of its phenomenal growth linked to Polish customers and visitors in and out of the country. Next year it will again play host to Routes Europe.
A German court that granted Etihad Airways temporary permission to continue operating all codeshare flights with airberlin through Nov. 8 has extended the approval until Jan. 15, 2016.
Airports Company South Africa has signed a Sister Airports Agreement with Munich Airport Group, agreeing on areas of cooperation and information sharing.
Located around 20 kilometres south of Bergen city centre, the airport handles more than six million passengers each year, but existing facilities are operating above capacity and many of the airport’s subsystems are heavily congested during peak periods.
WestJet will introduce a twice daily domestic service between London Metropolitan Area Airport and Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto from the end of March 2016. The link, operated by its regional division WestJet Encore using Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 NextGen turboprop equipment, will complement its existing service to Calgary and seasonal sun charters to the US and Caribbean from London.
