About eight hours after San Francisco-based Virgin America announced it would add two new winter routes from New York JFK and Boston Logan—two JetBlue Airways hubs—JetBlue Airways fired back, saying it will fly 2X-daily between San Francisco (SFO) and Las Vegas from Jan. 5 at fares as low as $38 one way.
LOT has been in financial difficulties for several years, reporting significant losses and negative equity, but in 2013 it recorded for the first time in five years a net profit of PLN 26 million, instead of almost PLN 200 million loss envisaged in the Restructuring Plan presented to the European Commission. This was its first annual net profit since 2007.
Swiss regional carrier SkyWork Airlines will move its twice weekday link between its Berne base and London from City Airport to Southend Airport from the start of the winter 2014/2015 schedules at the end of October, although it believes the switch will not impact its strategy to provide an efficient offering to the business traveller.
Bahrain, which is located in the Arabian Gulf, has a history of aviation that dates back to the early 1920's. Historically it has acted as a gateway between the East and West providing a natural transit destination for early trade routes and a strategic hub for the Northern Gulf.
Taipei became Emirates' newest passenger destination when flight EK366 arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on today inaugurating the airline's daily non-stop service from Dubai International Airport.
The HUB spoke to MEC Michael Mabuyakhulu during this year’s World Routes in Chicago to learn more about next year’s World Routes when he described the event as the aviation equivalent of the Football World Cup, which was hosted by South Africa in 2010. In terms of hosting the event, he added: “Durban is ready, KwaZulu-Natal is ready and Africa is ready.”
The UK airport is growing quickly and the recent extension of its Runway has opened up additional long-haul opportunities for the airport. We spent a little time with Paul Kehoe during the recent World Routes in Chicago to learn more about the latest developments at Birmingham Airport and learnt that this year’s forum will probably prove to be its “best Routes ever”.
Glenbeigh Records Management (GRM) officially opened its facility at Dubai World Central (DWC) yesterday in the presence of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation and the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who is visiting the UAE as part of a trade mission to the Middle East.
Dubai-based flydubai's inaugural flights to Entebbe and Bujumbura landed today and were welcomed with traditional water cannon salutes and official delegations.
The carrier’s entry into Tanzania is no real surprise as the country is a regional hub for tourism in East Africa and in 2013 the country welcomed over one million tourists. According to the Tanzania Tourism Board (TTB), this figure looks set with to double with two million tourists forecast by 2017.
