Proflight Zambia is launching its new route to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on October 16, 2014, enabling business people and traders to travel easily between the mining centres of Ndola and Lubumbashi.
The carrier will launch service to four new markets during the first quarter of 2015 with daily direct flights from Miami International Airport to Austin-Bergstrom, Kansas City, Salt Lake City and San Antonio. These flights will commence on March 5, 2015 and will be flown by a Boeing 737-800.
Aeroflot’s new low-cost carrier (LCC) subsidiary—Byudzhetny Perevozchik, which directly translates as Budget Carrier—will fly from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport’s Terminal B for the 2014-2015 winter schedule.
American Airlines is asking the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to seize one of Delta Air Lines’ Tokyo Haneda frequencies and reallocate it to American for service from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Florida-based regional Silver Airways will continue to invest in its Florida and Bahamas network while pulling back on flying from network carrier hubs, new CEO Sami Teittinen said in an interview.
Virgin Atlantic will end the Little Red flights, operated on its behalf by Aer Lingus, during summer 2015. The London Heathrow – Manchester route will close at the end of March 2015 and the links from the UK capital to Aberdeen and Edinburgh at the end of September 2015.
Emirates will be able to connect even more people and cargo with Boston from 1st August when it switches from its Boeing 777-200LR currently operating the route to a larger Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, adding passenger and cargo capacity.
Following the announcement of 10 new flights to Delhi, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram Dubai-based flydubai, during its inaugural trip to India, highlighted the increased connectivity of its network and the growing trade and tourism links between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The new link will operate from May 29, 2015 until October 23, 2015 using a Boeing 737-700 and like the existing St John’s – Dublin transatlantic operation will provide a same-aircraft connection to and from Toronto with other connections available to Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and 16 other cities in WestJet's Canadian network.
Gulf Air today announced that it would be resuming its flights to the Greek capital, Athens, with four weekly flights to Athens International Airport starting on the 16th of June.
In celebration of Emirates' 10 successful years at Glasgow Airport, an Emirates A380 will today fly a one-off Glasgow to Dubai service and open a new dedicated lounge facility at the Scottish airport this summer.
An 11-strong Abu Dhabi tourism delegation is heading to the Saudi Arabian capital next week to take part in the Riyadh Travel Fair – the Kingdom's largest consumer travel show which runs from April 15-18 – as the destination looks to build on increasing arrivals from the country and an uplift in air access.
Initially, British Airways will operate A380 service five times a week at Washington. The service will increase to daily by the end of October. It will supplement the daily 747 flights and the three weekly 777 flights out of the airport.
The European Commission has ordered Germanwings, Meridiana, Ryanair, TUIFly, Germany’s Zweibrücken Airport, Alghero Airport in Italy and Brussels Charleroi to repay illegal state aid, and launched an in-depth investigation into airline agreements at Brussels National Airport.
German aviation authorities are questioning the continuation of codeshare routes between Etihad Airways and its strategic equity partner airberlin, which are very important for both carriers between Germany and Abu Dhabi.
UK air navigation services provider NATS has postponed submitting proposed high level network changes relating to London Gatwick Airport to do additional analysis and to better understand the options and next steps for low level airspace (primarily routes below 4,000 ft.).
The new route marks only the sixth international route to be operated to the Brazilian capital and only the second from Europe – TAP Portugal has been serving the city from its Lisbon hub on an up to daily basis since July 2007. It also represents the first intercontinental network success since private consortium Inframérica took over the management of the airport in December 2012.
With the official launch of its first schedule to Singapore, Mongolia’s MIAT Mongolian Airlines flag carrier has signaled its intention to significantly extend its east-west route network—potentially to the US and Australia.
Documents filed by Southwest Airlines and American Airlines objecting to JetBlue Airways’ proposed Jacksonville, Florida (JAX)-Washington National (DCA) service show just how contentious the battle for valuable slots at the close-in Washington airport can be.
