Flag carrier Korean Air is to expand its international network reach into both Brazil and Croatia through newly signed agreements with Brazil’s GOL and an air services agreement (ASA) with the Croatian government.
After two years of decline, European air traffic picked up in 2014, showing a 1.7% improvement over 2013, according to a report on the performance of Europe’s air traffic management (ATM) system published by the independent Performance Review Commission (PRC) of Eurocontrol.
The airline will operate the route twice-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays to Dubai World Central Airport, where it became the first airline to operate flights to the UAE airport.
Qatar Airways announces the next phase of its USA route development with the introduction of three new passenger routes to Los Angeles, Boston and Atlanta.
The five-times-weekly operation will commence from September 14, 2015, and will be good news for many EU officials and businessmen who commute between Bremen and the European capital via other European airports.
An additional ten airports worldwide have been added to the approved list of airports to offer preclearance facilities to passengers travelling to the US.
The A6 Alliance of European air navigation service providers (ANSPs) has teamed up with Eurocontrol to define the pan-European ground-to-ground network infrastructure used for both voice and data communications between ANSPs.
UK-based low-cost carrier easyJet would be interested in operating from London Heathrow Airport if the UK government decides Heathrow should be the site of a long-awaited new runway for southeast England.
Q & A with Yolanta Strikitsa, Managing Director, Strikitsa Consulting who shares her perspectives on the region’s aviation landscape. Strikitsa will speak in the Routes Silk Road Strategy Summit, Session 3: Airports developments – meeting the changing needs of the region.
Qatari national carrier, Qatar Airways has announced that Philadelphia will be the first destination the airline will fly to in the USA with its A350 XWB aircraft.
It appears increasingly unlikely that Australian lawmakers will support a proposal to allow foreign carriers to serve domestic markets in the north of the country.
The route switch follows agreements earlier this year for SAS to dispose of two of its slot pairs at the heavily constrained Heathrow Airport for a combined positive earnings impact of $82 million. The first slot pair was sold to an unidentified carrier for $60 million, while the second was sold to Star Alliance partner, Turkish Airlines for $22 million.
Ten more airports worldwide have been added to those approved by the US authorities to offer pre-clearance facilities to passengers heading for the US, following efforts to expand throughput at Abu Dhabi Airport earlier this year.
JetBlue Airways is hitting back hard against the US carriers seeking to limit the Gulf airlines’ access to the US, urging the Department of Transportation (DOT) not to bow to pressure to curtail Open Skies.
Under the agreement, Etihad and Tourism Malaysia will put into effect a range of joint marketing activities targeting Malaysia’s leading inbound visitor markets – the UK, US, Europe (Germany, France and Italy), and the Middle East region (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait).
Following the success of its flights between St John’s and Dublin last summer, the carrier is offering a daily operation between Halifax and Glasgow from May 29, 2015 until October 23, 2015 using a Boeing 737-700. Like the St John’s – Dublin operation, the link will provide a same-aircraft connection to and from Toronto with other connections available to Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and 16 other cities in WestJet's Canadian network.
