Russia’s Transaero Airline will launch 4X-weekly Boeing 737 Moscow-Tbilisi services from Dec. 1, less than three months after Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, announced scheduled flights could resume between the countries.
UK low-fare regional carrier Flybe is to reopen its base at Aberdeen, begin base operations from Bournemouth and launch a new limited programme of domestic flights from London Stansted in summer 2015 as it continues to work to enhance connectivity within and from the UK.
To mark the 25th anniversary since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, airberlin offered passengers three sightseeing flights with special views of the WALL OF LIGHT.
Leading international organisations and associations from the transport, trade and tourism sector stand firmly with the World Health Organization (WHO) against general bans on travel and trade, as well as restrictions that include general quarantine of travellers from Ebola-affected countries.
From the 3rd of December, FlySafair will launch their second base at Johannesburg O.R. Tambo airport, allowing passengers to fly from Johannesburg to George and Port Elizabeth.
The budget airline will station a single Airbus A320 in Tuzla in June 2015 to open four new routes to Munich Memmingen and Oslo Torp, from June 26, 2015, and Frankfurt Hahn and Stockholm Skavsta from June 28, 2015. The addition of these services will grow its total network from Tuzla to nine destinations in five countries.
Under the terms of this agreement Flybe and Finnair accordingly have signed an agreement under which it is intended that Flybe will exit Flybe Nordic by the end of 2014, subject to approval being received from competition authorities.
Long-haul, low-cost airline AirAsia X (AAX) said it is succeeding in keeping its aircraft relatively full despite weakening demand and a dramatic increase in capacity.
Here is the first 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.
Glasgow Airport has announced a new route to Munich courtesy of German carrier Lufthansa, to commence in summer 2015. This is one of a number of new routes being added to the Lufthansa network in summer 2015.
The introduction of the A380 on the London – Miami route, which is operated under the auspices of the carrier’s Atlantic Joint Business with American Airlines, US Airways, Iberia and Finnair, will see BA’s available capacity on the route rise by around 39.2 per cent.
We've all sat and contemplated airports and their IATA codes for long enough, and some of their origins have remained a mystery. Why is Chicago O’Hare Airport ‘ORD’ and Orlando Airport ‘MCO’? At Routesonline we have done some digging and found out some of the answers to those burning questions.
Emirates Airline and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide are announcing a new partnership providing reciprocal benefits to Emirates Skywards and Starwood Preferred Guest members.
Since the start of this year the airline has had a team looking at how to address the challenges of the poor operating economics of its 19-seat fleet while at the same time leveraging the significant economies of scale available from its 50- and 68-seat fleets.
airberlin is already the prominent carrier serving Sylt Airport and in 2013 had a 79.7 per cent share of capacity from the facility, also known as Westerland, a well-known part of the municipality of Sylt. This year, following a reduction in Lufthansa’s schedule to the island, the airberlin share has grown to 85.8 per cent.
The Edmonton – Abbotsford route, which has been served continuously since April 2006, is currently served by two daily Boeing 737s, but the new third daily rotation from June 2015 will be flown by WestJet Encore with a smaller Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 turboprop.
Malaysia Airports Holdings has exercised its right of first refusal to buy the remaining 40% in Sabiha Gökçen Airport held by Turkish conglomerate the Limak Group, giving it 100% control of Istanbul’s second gateway airport.
The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) has been granted an environmental permit (EP) for the proposed expansion of Hong Kong International Airport into a three-runway system.
Air China and Air Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their existing partnership and form a revenue-sharing joint venture to stimulate traffic growth between the two countries.
