Abu Dhabi International Airport is undertaking one of its most ambitious expansion projects, with Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) selecting ADB Group as the main contractor.
Although the carrier has almost ten years experience in the cargo business, this will be its first growth into scheduled passenger operations. It intends to launch operations from September 2015 using a small fleet of three Boeing 737-500s that have already been acquired and are currently undergoing pre-service maintenance in Jordan.
Initially established in September 1994 under the AirZena brand, the carrier provided charter flights to the United Arab Emirates, Italy, China, Egypt, India, Syria and regular scheduled flights to Austria. It was granted national carrier status in November 1999 and latterly the Georgian Airways title has been added.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that more jobs could be generated and additional economic growth could be achieved in Namibia if intra-African markets are opened up to allow for greater airline transport connectivity.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle is waiting to hear whether its application for a UK air operator’s certificate (AOC) has been successful, as the debate over its US foreign air carrier permit continues.
Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair has been offered a batch of slots at Amsterdam Schiphol as the airline continues its move away from using only secondary airports.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has unveiled the new cabin layout and route network plans of its new Boeing 777-300ERs, which will begin arriving in January 2016 through 2018.
Australia’s competition watchdog has granted interim approval for an expanded partnership between Qantas and American Airlines, clearing the way for the carriers to market proposed new transpacific routes.
Ethiopian Airlines has launched a new service to Manila, in the Philippines from July 09, 2015. Ethiopian will be offering the service thrice weekly to Manila.
The three-times-weekly link will be operated with Air Canada’s ultra modern Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, and the new service will cut travel time between the two cities by five hours.
Air quality and noise are the outstanding issues that could sink plans for a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport, according to the Airports Commission, which published its final report last week.
Russian airlines want to keep existing bilateral agreements with Cyprus as a new round of talks is set to begin on air service development between the countries.
Proflight Zambia has launched its new service to Kafue National Park, making the country's largest park more accessible for local and international tourists.
The state-run airline has proposed to fly three weekly flights each to San Francisco and Toronto from New Delhi with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft, which is likely to be reconfigured to include more seating capacity, the airline has said.
Madeira Airport in Portugal hopes to exceed the 2.5 million passenger per annum milestone this year after reaching a record high of 2.46 million passengers in 2014. The growth in demand has been supported by an increase in connectivity to the Portuguese archipelago.
TAM, the Brazilian carrier that is part of LATAM Airlines Group, expects to take delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 in December and plans to deploy it on a domestic route initially.
