Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
National carrier, Solomon Airlines has agreed to work together with both Air Niugini and Air Vanuatu to jointly develop and promote partnership in aviation services.
Airports & Networks

A taxiing Korean Air Airbus A330 hit a parked Bangkok Airways ATR 72-600 at Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, at the weekend, significantly damaging the parked aircraft’s rudder and trim tabs.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Poppy Marello
London has overtaken Bangkok as the number one tourist destination in the world, according to a recent report by Skift.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
UK multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company AstraZeneca is understood to have reached an agreement with Danish carrier Sun-Air for the airline to introduce two rotations per day, four days per week between Cambridge and Gothenburg from the end of March this year.
Airports & Networks

Mauritius Airport was rated the best overall in Africa by ACI – the trade association for the airport industry worldwide.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
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.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
Air travel is set to flourish over the next week in the Asia Pacific region, with Chinese New Year just around the corner.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
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.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
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.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
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.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
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.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
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.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Lufthansa Cargo has begun flying 1,500 tonnes of roses right across Europe.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
American Airlines will begin domestic service in May and international service in June using its newly delivered Boeing 787.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

By Routes Marketing Team
There is just one week left to place your votes in the Routes Europe Marketing Awards
Airports & Networks

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
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks

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.
Airports & Networks