As the gateway to the stunning temples of Angkor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Siem Reap is a hugely popular resort town, which has been attracting more and more Vietnamese tourists in recent years. This new direct route linking Hanoi with Siem Reap will tap demand for travel between the two hubs while further boosting the development of trade and tourism between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Airberlin and Alitalia have signed a strategic codeshare agreement on all 412 weekly flights between Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy from the winter season.
IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF) plans to launch a voluntary public offer to acquire a minority stake of between 20% and 29.9% in Vienna Airport operator Flughafen Wien AG through its indirect subsidiary, Airports Group Europe.
Iceland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) WOW Air is finalizing its first transatlantic service on 6X-weekly Reykjavik Keflavik-Boston Logan service from March 28, 2015.
Porter Airlines has reached an interline agreement with JetBlue Airways to route some traffic through JetBlue’s hub at Boston Logan International Airport, considerably broadening the Canadian airline’s reach into US, Mexico and Caribbean markets.
First reported by our schedules blog, Airline Route, the initial plan for summer 2015 and winter 2015/2016 suggests BA switching the operational aircraft on three routes. Its daily London Heathrow – Seoul Incheon route and six times weekly London Heathrow – Montreal link will be switched from 777-200ERs to the 787-8, while the daily London Heathrow – Austin service will see a 787-8 replaced by a 777-200ER.
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has expressed its disappointment with the regulator’s final decision to decrease airport charges, after they made the decision to keep charges flat over the next five years.
The airline will introduce new routes to Alicante and Naples (a new market and return of a former destination) and boost frequencies to Dalaman and Faro as it offers 28 weekly flights from Leeds Bradford to ten sun and city destinations across Europe during the summer 2015 schedule.
CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, said that Africa now has a unique opportunity to modernise air navigation infrastructure across the continent.
With the recent disappearance of Kim Jong-Un, we took a look at how the state-owned national flag carrier of North Korea- Air Koryo, is being maintained.
FAA’s Chicago En Route Center came back online early Monday morning, ending a 17-day outage that required creative approaches such as the use of adjacent facilities to maintain traffic flow and led FAA to stand up a review of air traffic center interruption-contingency plans.
US investment firm RiverOak is urging the UK government to amend the law relating to airport closures in the wake of its failed bid to bailout Manston Airport in Kent.
The proposed new route is due to launch on March 7, 2015 and Southwest Airlines has initially opened reservations for the first month of operations through to April 6, 2015. According to Southwest it anticipates strong point-to-point flows on the first-ever non-stop service on this routing but will also facilitate connections with 17 additional cities in the US via its Baltimore/Washington base.
For the 2014-15 winter season (from 26 October 2014 to 28 March 2015), Air France-KLM Group capacity is scheduled to increase by 0.7%, with an increase of 0.1% for passenger operations (Air France, KLM and HOP!) and 13.3% for low-cost leisure operations (Transavia in France and the Netherlands).
Air services between Europe and Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and a developing cultural, governmental and educational centre, have been limited over recent years and the introduction of this additional transatlantic connection will help facilitate the growing long-haul demand for travel to and from the city.
Porter Airlines of Toronto and JetBlue Airways have agreed to an interline agreement, the first for Porter. Boston Logan International Airport serves as the connecting point for interline flights between the two carriers. JetBlue has 125 daily departures out of Boston and Porter flies to Boston 8X-daily from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Gulf Air and Challenge Bahrain has announced a partnership deal under which the carrier will become the official airline partner of the Kingdom's annual triathlon event, scheduled to take place this December 06, 2014.
Hamad International Airport (HIA) has officially unveiled two of its latest state-of-the-art facilities, The Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa. Located in the south node of the airport, the 100-room The Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa offer passengers passing through HIA superb services and great flexibility depending upon their travel needs and schedules.
Emirates has announced it is to launch a fourth daily service from its home and hub, Dubai International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York commencing 8th March 2015.
TIBAH Airports Operation Company, a consortium led by TAV Airports and its local partners Al Rajhi and Saudi Oger which manages Prince Mohammad International Airport (PMIA) in Madinah, has selected IFS Applications to support and manage all service and maintenance operations at PMIA.
The European Commission has called for an “urgent” meeting of the joint committee that governs the US-European Union (EU) open skies to discuss the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) delay in approving Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application to serve the US.
