The frequency growth will see Qatar Airways boost capacity to Barcelona by 32.1 per cent in 2015, while total capacity into Spain will increase 30.4 per cent to almost 360,000 seats in each direction. According to MIDT data, the airline carried an estimated 458,000 passengers on its flights to and from Spain last year.
The airline has been offering a service on the Bogota – Barcelona route since June 2006. An estimated 76,000 passengers flew on the route in the first nine months of this year, up 10.1 per cent on the same period last year, with Avianca reporting average loads of more than 85 per cent.
Barcelona is one of the most popular destinations in Spain, with a history among the oldest in Europe, and a sensational amount of culture. At the same time, it has a reputation for being a modern and cosmopolitan city, with a huge amount of shopping and nightlife.
A coalition of UK airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers and air navigation service provider NATS believes the potential exists for a national sustainable fuels industry to help cut atmospheric emissions.
Tenerife has taken on an active role in enhancing air connectivity to the island and Turismo de Tenerife, the official agency on the island responsible for promoting the island internationally as a premier leisure destination has highlighted air connectivity as one of key priorities within the growth strategy.
Currently, about 50,000 people fly between Boston and Mexico City every year. The service is expected to generate approximately $50 million in economic activity in Massachusetts.
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at the news breaking the same week in previous years and revisit it one or two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
Ahead of next year's Routes Americas in Denver, Routesonline approached Tom Clark, chief executive officer, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation to learn more about the destination.
The European Union believes the continued delay by US authorities in processing Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application to operate to the US marks the first breach of the EU-US air transport agreement that was signed in 2007.
Dubai-based Emirates Airline is hitting back at claims by Philippine carriers that it is being allowed to operate too many flights in the important Philippines-Middle East market.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Jetstar Japan has revealed its first international destination will be Hong Kong, although the flight will be from Osaka Kansai International Airport rather than the carrier’s main base at Tokyo Narita.
Volaris Airlines began 2X-weekly Guadalajara-Orlando Airbus A319 services. Monarch Airlines adds new and additional summer services: 3X-weekly Birmingham-Ibiza, weekly Birmingham-Preveza; London LGW-Ibiza, 6X-weekly, -Rhodes, weekly, -Larnaca, 2X-weekly; 2X-weekly London Luton-Zante; and 6X-weekly Manchester-Ibiza, weekly Manchester-Rhodes.
This year, Routes was entered into the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Connect Awards which celebrates and rewards the very best in events and won the 'Networking Event of the Year' award for last year's World Routes forum in Las Vegas, USA.
The new airline will operate under a revised Eurowings brand but will be flown under the air operator certificate (AOC) of SunExpress Deutschland using the latter’s cockpit and cabin crews. It will be based at Cologne/Bonn Airport and will initially launch operations from the end of 2015, serving destinations in Florida, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean.
9 Air was established earlier this year as a subsidiary of privately-owned Juneyao Airlines. It is the third low-cost carrier to operate in China after Spring Airlines and China West Air and plans to offer fares priced at 9 yuan, 99 yuan, 199 yuan and 299 yuan, meaning its cheapest fares will be the equivalent of $1.50.
Abu Dhabi Airports today signed an agreement with ADNOC Distribution to support Abu Dhabi International Airport's (AUH) growth, well beyond the opening of the Midfield Terminal.
