In the past 12 months, JetBlue and Southwest Airlines has added new links from the US mainland, while in the international market Avianca has introduced a number of flights to Bogota, Columbia. The airport’s latest coup was securing a twice-weekly Madrid-San Juan service from Spanish carrier Air Europa.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the north-eastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. The island is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide, making it the smallest island of the Greater Antilles.
The Alitalia network will be one of the main pillars of the new strategy alongside Cooperation, Fleet, Guest Service and Brand with a new three-hub strategy in Italy being introduced.
Emirates first launched flights between Dubai and Kolkata in March 2006 as its seventh destination in India with a split schedule offering greater connectivity via its hub. A daily operation with this split schedule was introduced from early 2008, while a dedicated daily flight on the ‘EK570’ and ‘EK571’ departures came online from December 2009.
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
Red Wings has committed to receive three aircraft on lease from the manufacturer during the first half of this year. They will be operated by the carrier under an initial three year lease term but this is open to extension subject to success of the new regional expansion.
The new route strategy into Italy will see airberlin introduce a new daily service from Stuttgart to Rome from March 29, 2015, operated by an Airbus A320, as well as a 17 times weekly, up to three times daily link from Stuttgart to Milan Linate from May 2015, flown by a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400. In addition, starting the same month, airberlin will expand its service on the existing Stuttgart to Venice route to a daily summer schedule.
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
The confirmation of the landmark link ends over a year of speculation about the service after Gu Zhongqin, president of Xinjiang Airport Group, revealed in December 2013 that the airport authority was in discussions with the budget carrier to introduce the link, around a 4 hour and a half to five hour sector.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) said it will start a route case proceeding for slots at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, handing a victory to American Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.
Colorado-based Frontier Airlines is changing its strategy at Trenton-Mercer Airport to limit East-West flying in winter, but still views the market as a valuable part of its network, even though it has increased departures at nearby Philadelphia International Airport, an airline executive said an interview.
bmi regional will introduce the three new routes from the start of the summer 2015 schedule in late March and will offer up to two rotations per day to Liege and up to three a day to Berne and Rotterdam. The Liege route will be served by an Embraer ERJ-135, the Rotterdam link with a larger ERJ-145 and the Berne service by a mix of the two aircraft types.
The US Treasury and Commerce Departments unveiled a new set of rules that ease travel and trade restrictions to the island, as long as US citizens certify they are travelling through one of 12 approved categories, which include family, educational and humanitarian trips.
South African Airways in North America has launched a special campaign focusing on the great experience and value travel on offer when travelling to Southern Africa.
The move comes after the airline applied to use a Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) mechanism to start stopgap flights to the area with the emergency arrangement, following the sudden closure of Queensland-based Syktrans.
This year, Airbus have adjusted the prices for its “modern, comprehensive and fuel-efficient aircraft family,” increasing the average list prices of its aircraft by 3.27 percent across the product line, in comparison to 2014.
The launch is pending regulatory approval, and the airline will operate the route with its 291-seat Boeing 777-200LR wide-body jets, configured with 37 full flat-bed BusinessElite seats, 36 Economy Comfort seats and 218 standard Economy seats.
Dubai International Airport seems formally set to overtake London Heathrow Airport as the world’s busiest airport for international passengers when year-end figures for Dubai are released Jan. 27.
Singapore-based low-cost carriers (LCCs) Scoot and Tigerair say they are beginning to realize significant benefits from a partnership authorized by competition regulators last year.
