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.
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”.
