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Turkish Airlines plans to extend services in Africa by adding 5X-weekly flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Abuja/Nigeria, its 38th destination in the continent, from March 3.
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By Linda Blachly
American Airlines will begin domestic service in May and international service in June using its newly delivered Boeing 787.
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By Victoria Jones
Read on to find out which airports and destinations have been shortlisted in this year’s Asia heat of the Routes Marketing Awards.
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By Routes Marketing Team
With over 850 meetings already scheduled, be sure to make you requests early to ensure you meet with your top targets.
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By Routes Marketing Team
There is just one week left to place your votes in the Routes Europe Marketing Awards
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By Richard Maslen
American has confirmed the type will initially will be deployed between its hubs at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O'Hare International Airport from May 7, 2015. The aircraft will substitute for other equipment on the domestic sector which is served more than 100 times a week, mainly using McDonnell Douglas MD-80 equipment
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By Richard Maslen
Here's our latest instalment of our regular series of industry trivia questions where we ask readers to vote on a particular aviation subject. This time, ahead of Routes Asia, we look at airports in China.
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By Poppy Marello
The airline, part of the Lufthansa Group, has been forced to cancel a number of its domestic and European short-haul routes as a result of the walkout by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union which has failed to reach an agreement on working contracts for its members with the Lufthansa Group.
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By Jim Liu
In partnership with our Airline Route blog, Routesonline is launching a new weekly 'Historic Airline Schedule Snapshot' as part of our Throwback Thursday series, where we look back at the historic flight operations of a current or defunct airline.
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Qatar Airways has launched non-stop flights to Nagpur from Doha, taking the airline's total weekly passenger flights from 95 to 102 across 13 key cities in India.
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Gulf Air is bringing the airline's passengers a new entertainment experience, as it becomes the first airline in the Middle East to launch BBC Worldwide's three newest genre brands onboard: BBC Brit, BBC Earth and BBC First.
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By Poppy Marello
The international airport is based in Germany’s fourth largest city, and serves 9.5 million passengers per year, with a catchment of 17 million.
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By Richard Maslen
In 1984 when Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) became the world’s first privately-owned international airport, nobody would have predicted that today it would among the busiest facilities across the Caribbean and a major economic driver for the Dominican Republic. Over the past 30 years it has been regularly recognised among the fastest growing airport in Latin America in terms of passenger traffic, and is now gearing up to welcome Airbus A380 operations by the end of this year.
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Hungarian air navigation service provider (ANSP) HungaroControl has abolished the entire fixed flight route network in Hungarian airspace, converting entirely to free route airspace.
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Qatar Airways plans to operate the Airbus A350 XWB on its Doha-Singapore service, replacing Boeing 787 aircraft that were introduced on the route less than a year ago.
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Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) opponents have opened a new front in their battle to keep the long-haul low-cost carrier from operating to the US by objecting to the carrier’s loan guarantees from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) for aircraft purchases.
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By Richard Maslen
Ecuador certainly has a lot to offer and has a growing inbound appeal as the new Quito International Airport, the largest gateway into the country, makes the destination more accessible to international arrivals without the operational restrictions that had affected its downtown predecessor.
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Oman Airports' has welcomed new Kish Airlines to Muscat International Airport, offering one direct weekly services between Kish Islands and Muscat/Muscat to Kish Islands using a Fokker 100 aircraft.
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Turkish Airlines has added Maputo, Mozambique, to its network.
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Etihad Airways is expanding its Saudi Arabian network through a new five-times-per-week service between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi operated by its codeshare partner Flynas.
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The share price for the much-delayed part-privatization of Spain’s state airport operator, AENA, has been set at a high €58 ($66) per share, making it one of the biggest in Europe over the past 12 months.
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Kuwaiti trading and contracting firm Al Nasriyah has been awarded a 45-year contract by the Iraqi National Investment Commission (NIC) to develop and operate a new airport to serve Iraq’s Diwaniya governorate.
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By Richard Maslen
Watch highlights from this year's Routes Americas, which made its debut in North America in the US city of Denver, hosted by Denver International Airport and Visit Denver.
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By Poppy Marello
The four-times-weekly flights will operate between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) and the airlines main base in Panama City, and will offer convenient connections to more than 55 destinations in Central and South America.
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Gulf Air has resumed flights to Baghdad International Airport following a temporary suspension over safety concerns after a Flydubai aircraft on a commercial flight was hit with bullets on landing.
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