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.
In a slight strategy shift, Allegiant Air announced 14 new routes on Wednesday, nearly all of which are designed to take travelers from midsize US cities to popular vacation destinations.
Ryanair is furthering its expansion by basing two aircraft at Bratislava airport in Slovakia, serving a total of 16 routes, including a new 3X-weekly Madrid link.
Boston is currently the fourth largest US - Tel Aviv origin-destination market without non-stop service behind San Francisco, Chicago and Miami and averages an estimated 91 passengers a day in each direction, generating more than $45 million in ticket sales last year alone.
Both Air China and Air Canada have announced their plans for an enhanced partnership on routes between Canada and China in order to stimulate traffic growth between the two countries.
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at a breaking article from the same time last year and revisit it two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
New visa reciprocal visa regulations between the US and China that go into force Nov. 12 could dramatically affect transpacific demand by markedly increasing the number of visitors from China to the US.
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.
