Dallas-based Southwest Airlines could be planning a competitive response to Spirit Airlines’ recent decision to add seven new routes to Mexico and Central America from Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, one analyst said in an interview.
Greece-based Aegean Airlines has announced its summer 2015 operations will include a network of 134 destinations, including 100 international and 34 domestic routes in 42 countries.
Azul Brazilian Airlines begins daily service from its hub at São Paulo’s Viracopos/Campinas International Airport (VCP) to Fort Lauderdale, Florida Dec. 2.
The new services to Heathrow Airport will bring the number of daily rotations on this route to up to five and will end the monopoly currently held by the oneworld alliance.
For Czech Airlines this will be its only route into Ireland after the carrier closed its long-standing route to the capital Dublin. This year-round service was reduced to a seasonal summer offering from summer 2010 but was closed the following year after a short three month season of flights.
Air China and Air Zealand announced they have signed a statement of intent that will pave the way for a strategic alliance on services between China and New Zealand.
Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) new management team is reviewing all parts of its operation to determine if any changes to fleet and network plans are required, president and COO Jaime Bautista said.
The true nature of the UK aviation industry cannot be visualised more clearly than in this video produced this week by air traffic service provider NATS, effectively a guided tour to some of what makes UK aviation work.
From May 4, 2015, SkyWest Airlines will introduce four times daily Delta Connection flights to Boise, Idaho and Sacramento, Calif, while seasonal daily flights to Ketchikan, Alaska and Sitka, Alaska will be added from May 15, 2015. The fifth new route to Denver will come online from June 5, 2015 and will be flown on a five times daily basis by Compass Airlines under the Delta Connection brand.
The new flight will launch from March 29, 2015 and will introduce a morning rotation to further support local and transfer traffic on the route. It will be operated using an Airbus A320 configured with 12 Business Class and 132 Economy seats.
Every Friday Routesonline will have a look back at an alternative story of the past week. Humourous, interesting, enlightening or simply just a bit different, this addition to our coverage will enable us to feature more from the world of aviation and have a little bit of fun on a friday.
Norwegian Air Shuttle CEO Bjørn Kjos told a Washington DC audience Thursday that Irish labor laws played no role in the decision to base long-haul subsidiary Norwegian Air International (NAI) in Ireland.
Alitalia has announced plans to serve its Etihad Airways’ Abu Dhabi home base from Milan Malpensa and Venice, plus an expanded codeshare with its new equity partner covering 46 routes.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to switch its international growth focus to Tokyo Narita International Airport in 2015 following a dramatic expansion at Haneda Airport this year.
It is just over two years since the first 787 flights were launched to the UK capital and at periods this year more than 740 flights a month, around 24 departures a day have been recorded using the Dreamliner.
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.
Advocates on both sides of the debate over Norwegian Air International (NAI) are making their voices heard in Washington DC this week, hoping to convince the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to either approve or disallow NAI from flying transatlantic flights to/from the US.
Saudi Arabia hybrid carrier flynas has appointed a new CEO, just weeks after it announced it was pulling back from its ambitious plans for a network of long-haul flights.
A trio of European airlines has signed an agreement for a regular supply of biofuel at Oslo Airport, which will next year become the world’s first hub airport to receive regular deliveries of biofuel.
Following the recent debate at World Routes in Chicago this year regarding critical issues in air transport, we have decided to revisit the subject, and ask the community - What do you think is the most pressing issue in the aviation industry today.
