AviAssist has announced that it has entered into a five year corporate social responsibility agreement with UMCG Ambulance Services from the Netherlands for the delivery of a new course, the Airport Trauma Care Course (ATCC).
This will mark the return of direct flights into Asia for the Scandinavian flag carrier from Sweden’s capital city. In the past ten years it has previously offered links from Stockholm to both Beijing and Bangkok, the latter on a seasonal winter basis, but these were both suspended from spring 2009.
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With the additional flights, Qatar Airways will now have four early morning departures connecting via Doha to Europe and the Americas and four early evening departures connecting to flights in the Asia Pacific region. A mix of morning and evening flights means convenient connections for passengers from Salalah to key markets in the Qatar Airways’ route network of 146 destinations.
Southwest Airlines will start daily flights between Austin, Texas and St. Louis from June 28, 2015. Southwest is Lambert-St. Louis International Airport’s biggest operator with more than 90 daily flights to 35 cities.
The predominantly leisure markets will be served by the new ‘Jump’ business of the carrier which will see Lufthansa CityLine fly up to 14 Airbus A340-300s reconfigured in a higher-density, three-class, 298-seat arrangement under the Lufthansa brand.
The deployment of the Super Jumbo will take effect from May 1, 2015 and will mean that alongside its partner Qantas, a total of seven daily A380 services will operate from Dubai to Australia from next summer.
China’s big three—Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines—are all expected to operate out of Beijing new airport, which will be located in Daxing.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is seeking to hold a new round of bilateral air service agreement (ASA) talks with the Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board (PCAB) early next year.
Dubai-based Emirates Airline is further boosting its Airbus A380 services to Australia, and it plans to have five daily flights with this aircraft type by the middle of next year.
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana has added to its Southeast Asia route network with a direct flight from Astana, the Kazakh state capital Astana, to Bangkok, Thailand.
Its latest growth for the first quarter of 2015 will see another three destinations added to its route map, further expanding the carrier’s footprint to 89 destinations in 46 countries. These comprise flights to Hargeisa (Somaliland), Chennai (India), and Nejran (Saudi Arabia).
The low-cost carrier has announced new services from its Budapest base to Hurghada on the East coast of Egypt and Alghero in Sardinia, Italy, for the summer 2015 season.
US major, United Airlines is to operate additional flights to Shanghai and Chengdu from the airline’s hub in San Francisco, during the peak summer travel season. The announcement comes in the same week as a report by OAG, which considers a China-US open skies agreement.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and UK air navigation services provider NATS have agreed to conduct an independent inquiry into an air traffic management (ATM) systems failure that caused significant disruption to air traffic in UK airspace Dec. 12.
Air freight volumes worldwide were up 5% year-over-year in October, a 1.2 point drop from September, but signifying the 13th consecutive month of air cargo growth, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
Vietnam Airlines has opened reservations for its first Airbus A350XWB services this week. The airline will be the second operator of the new generation widebody airliner after Qatar Airways and plans to deploy the aircraft on its route between Hanoi and Paris CDG from the end of the third quarter 2015.
Over the past ten years the country's largest international gateway, Tbilisi International Airport has seen a substantial growth in international seat capacity.
