Building on the success of this year’s event, which provisional figures suggest welcomed over 650 delegates, 45 per cent growth year-on-year, Routes Americas 2016 will take place between February 7-9, 2016 in San Juan. The event, which is the route development forum for the entire Americas region, will be hosted by Puerto Rico Tourism Company with the support of their partners Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC and MeetPuertoRico.
An ongoing call by US mainline carriers for the country's government to re-look at its Open Skies deals with certain Gulf nations has stirred up strong reactions in the industry, even as some parties choose to stay out of the controversial issue altogether.
The service will be operated three-times weekly, increasing to a daily service by the end of the year, using a B757-200 aircraft with 74 lie-flat seats in a 2x2 configuration.
Beginning September 1, 2015 and subject to government approval, the service will operate four-times weekly to Dusseldorf - the international business and financial centre in Germany.
Last night during a fantastic networking evening hosted by Denver International Airport and its partners at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was announced as the winner of the first heat of the 2015 Routes Marketing Awards.
The keynote address at this year's Routes Americas Strategy Summit in Denver by John Byerly, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Affairs at the US State Department has certainly ignited an interesting debate on the relationship between US and Gulf carriers, especially given his current role as a consultant, with clients including Emirates Airline and Norwegian. But, who is John Byerly?
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, already a global passenger hub for American Airlines, wants to become "a super-global logistics center" as it uses its central geographic location to attract even more cargo airlines, Milton de la Paz, assistant vice president for DFW, tells Routesonline at Routes Americas.
Guarulhos International Airport (GRU), formerly known as São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport, has signed the two-year deal. The new licence agreement includes access to OAG’s Schedules Analyser, Connections Analyser, Traffic Analyser and OAG Mapper products, which will be used to strengthen the airport’s marketing and route development programmes.
Korean Air plans to revise its Italian services from a Seoul-Milan-Rome double-header circuit to direct flights to each city due to increasing traffic on the Asia-Europe sectors and impending competition from regional low-cost carriers.
Delta launched its hourly non-stop Delta Shuttle product from Los Angeles to San Francisco in September 2013, adding a California perspective to its long relied-upon New York-based Shuttle. Alongside eight daily 717 flights it will offer seven flights through Delta Connection partner Compass Airlines using 76-seat Embraer E175s.
In its first summer season, Air Canada rouge offered an up to daily link between Toronto and Dublin using a Boeing 767-300ER, but reverted to a three times weekly offering through the current winter schedule. According to its schedules, frequencies will increase again from late April 2015, growing to ten times weekly in mid-June and up to eleven times weekly from the end of that month through to the end of August.
ProColombia, the new name of the tourism and promotions organisation that was ProExport Colombia, is experiencing a rise in new international flights to the country as it takes the top spot for economic growth in the region.
Launched at Vancouver International Airport in 2012, BorderXpress kiosks are currently available at a total of 20 airport locations across North America and the Caribbean, including New York’s John F Kennedy International, Los Angeles International, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and the world’s two busiest airports, Chicago O’Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.
The US Treasury and Commerce Departments unveiled the new set of rules that ease travel and trade restrictions to the island, as long as US citizens certify they are travelling through on one of 12 approved categories, which include family, educational and humanitarian trips.
Air Canada estimates the new agreement will result in approximately $550 million in financial value over the next six years as compared to the previous CPA, of which two-thirds will be in network optimisation benefits.
A communication last month from La Compagnie suggests that Luton Airport will host its new Transatlantic link between London and Newark, the airport's first regular flight to the United States since 2008. In a newsletter to subscribers confirming plans to open reservations this week, the carrier mentioned the use of the Bedfordshire airport.
A former US deputy assistant secretary of state, John Byerly, has warned that US carriers are appealing directly to US President Barak Obama's cabinet to renegotiate or terminate 'Open Skies' agreements with the UAE and Qatar.
