International aviation fuel products and service supplier Air BP continues to expand its footprint in Africa with the installation of a new 30,000 litre Avgas refuelling tank at Nampula International Airport (APL/FQNP), Mozambique.
The carrier will introduce new scheduled services from Amsterdam to Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; Krakow, Poland and Montpellier, France from May 18, 2015 with flights to be operated by its KLM cityhopper regional business.
American Airlines has ramped up the battle for Delta Air Lines’ Seattle-Tokyo Haneda route authority, submitting a formal application to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting that the route be reallocated to American for daily Boeing 777-200 flights from Los Angeles (LAX).
Hawaiian Airlines is renewing its push for permission to fly between Kona and Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, which would be an important step in the carrier’s move to increase long-haul services from Hawaiian airports other than its Honolulu hub.
The European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) and FAA have warned that civil airlines could be in danger when flying through South Sudanese airspace.
Lufthansa, which is transforming its Eurowings subsidiary into a pan-European platform to operate low-cost flights from several bases outside Germany, could also start service from Vienna.
Russia’s S7 Airlines has received approval for three Boeing 737-800s to perform landings using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), becoming the country’s first carrier to do so.
United Airlines said it is working to resolve problems with its United Express ground handler at Denver International Airport, after customers have complained about missing and delayed bags.
Here's our January 2015 instalment of our regular series of industry trivia questions where we ask readers to vote on a particular subject during the month before revealing the actual results at the end of the month.
Royal Jordanian and the Jordan Hospitals Association (JHA) signed a memorandum of understanding at RJ's headquarters, in order to build a strategic partnership between the two sides and coordinate with authorities involved in medical and therapeutic tourism.
WTM Africa 2015, the leading business to business tourism event in Africa, has been expanded to a three-day event, following the successful inaugural show.
Yunnan is one of the most popular tourist destinations in China, and is renowned for its modest weather all year round, numerous natural landscapes and scenery, and diverse ethnic groups.
The filings, citing underutilisation of a scarce resource, have been prompted by the US DOT's decision last month to review the public interest served by Delta Air Lines' Seattle - Tokyo route after the US major reduced its frequency from daily to a basic seasonal schedule.
Russian and Georgian aviation authorities have agreed to allow the carriers of each country to operate 18 flights per week on the Moscow-Tbilisi route through Jan. 31.
With the addition of the city of Amsterdam, the total number of European destinations offered by Qatar Airways will grow to 34 – just under a quarter of the airline’s total route map. The carrier has witnessed rapid growth in its 17 years of operation and now operates a fleet of 146 aircraft to 146 business and leisure destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier Air Arabia is to set up an operation in Jordan after agreeing terms to acquire a 49 per cent stake in local carrier Petra Airline. The agreement will see the carrier relaunched as Air Arabia Jordan before the end of the first quarter of this year and will see Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport established as a fifth hub for the expanding low-cost business.
The 2nd Annual Middle East Air Cargo & Logistics Conference & Exhibition 2015 (MEACL) and the Bahrain International Airport Development Forum (BIAD) 2015 opened today in Manama under the patronage of the Minister of Transportation of Telecommunications (MTT), Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed.
Gulf Air is giving its premium passengers travelling from Frankfurt, London or Paris to Bahrain and onwards to the Gulf region, Indian Subcontinent and Far East competitive airfares for travel between now and the latter half of 2015 when booking flights this April.
Qatar Airways will be boosting its flight frequencies to Jakarta and Denpasar (Bali) from 5 July and 16 July 2015 respectively to meet the ever-increasing demand on these popular routes.
Ryanair will be basing an additional Boeing 737-800 at Athens International Airport during summer 2015, increasing its based fleet to four aircraft and plans to double its Athens traffic to approximately 2.2 million passengers per annum.
