San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is licensing a new technology that allows airports to track rideshare drivers, including ones from popular companies Uber and Lyft, to ensure they’re paying proper fees when accessing airport roadways.
Effective from 1st July 2015, Qatar Airways will launch flights to Zanzibar, the airline's third gateway in Tanzania after Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro.
The mystic spice island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean will take the total number of destinations in the airline’s African network to 20 cities. The new destination is a popular island holiday spot for leisure travellers with its white sandy beaches, abundant wild life, rich culture and long history.
The start-up will inaugurate flights on April 2, 2015 with a three times weekly links to Budapest and Prague, while three times weekly flights to the Italian destinations of Milan and Rome will follow from April 3, 2015.
Flag carrier Korean Air will open up codeshare flights from Incheon, Korea to Buenos Aires in Argentina through an upcoming agreement with Aerolíneas Argentinas.
Hong-Kong-based Cathay Pacific will cease Moscow flights from June 1, due to decreasing number of passengers and growing operational costs of the route, the carrier said in a statement.
Mexican low-cost carrier (LCC) Interjet is asking the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for permission to operate flights between Mexico City and Miami, New York and San Antonio, Texas, flights the carrier operated until its authority “unintentionally” lapsed earlier this month.
According to Ding Shaoxiang, vice governor of Yunnan province government, the route successes of China Eastern Airlines linking Kunming to Paris Charles De Gaulle last year and Vancouver International Airport from this year should be followed by a new direct link to Australia in 2016 serving either Melbourne or Sydney.
THE Coega Development Corporation (CDC) on South Africa's Eastern Cape has today announced that it will issue a notice for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study to assess the feasibility of establishing a cargo airport and an aeronautical and aerospace industrial cluster in the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), located in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa along the Indian Ocean Coast.
In its nine years of operation as a HNA Aviation group subsidiary, Lucky Air has developed its network to cover more than 40 destinations across 21 Chinese provinces with a fleet of approaching 25 aircraft. It now serves 61 routes and handled 5.67 million passengers last year.
Ryanair last week revealed it was in talks with manufacturers, with a view to ordering long-haul aircraft after its board approved plans to begin transatlantic flights. However, the carrier has subsequently said said no approval has yet been received to expand into the long-haul, transatlantic market, putting the erroneous information down to a “miscommunication”.
With nearly 80 per cent of the Chinese population and economy within a range circle of about 2,000 km across Central and Eastern regions, congestion will remain a major talking point in China and an issue that will not be easily resolved. Meanwhile, domestic air travel will remain very important for China’s aviation development.
Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot will expand its services from Singapore to Bangkok’s Don Mueang LCC hub, to fly 10 Boeing 777-200 flights a week to the Thai capital.
Abu Dhabi-based Falcon Aviation Services has increased its exposure to African carriers with the wet lease of a Bombardier Q400 NextGen to Aero Surveys of Ghana.
