The Daytona Beach – New York market was previously served for an 18 year period by Continental Airlines via a daily link to its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport, but it suspended the route in 2008 due to the economic recession.
The new four times weekly route was inaugurated on February 13, 2015 and is the only direct flight between the Malaysian capital and Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing, one of the five national central cities in China. The city is a major manufacturing centre and transportation hub and serves as the economic centre of the upstream Yangtze basin.
In a first major step to regulate the use of small unmanned aircraft commercially in US airspace, the US Transportation Department announced Feb. 15 a proposed rulemaking.
According to Airport Council International (ACI) African air transport demand is on the path to recovery with annualized growth of 3.2% in passenger traffic.
Hainan Airlines parent HNA Group’s subsidiary Beibu Gulf Airlines performed its inaugural flight Feb. 13 from Nanning to Haikou as it deepens its cooperation with local governments to further explore the market potential of China’s secondary and tertiary cities.
Over a twelve-month period, preliminary data shows a growth rate of 5.1 percent year over year, with both international and domestic traffic posting strong growth rates of 5.8 percent and 4.5 percent respectively.
Alaska Airlines is seeking to transfer its authority to fly between Los Angeles and Mexico City to American Airlines, a move that would permit American to start double-daily flights June 4.
Greek start-up, SkyGreece will launch services to Canada, with new routes between Athens, Thessaloniki, Zagreb and Budapest to Toronto, following approval from the Greek and Canadian authorities.
Aena, which runs 46 Spanish airports, saw its shares rocket as high as 17 percent on the day the company listed on the Madrid stock market, in Spain’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) since 2007.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
