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.
Social media has become a popular choice of communication for airlines and their customers. We have taken a look at the top ten airlines (by frequency) and their use of social media.
FAA is aiming to have the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois operational by Oct. 13 following a Sept. 26 fire at the facility.
AirBridge Cargo began weekly Moscow SVO-Basel Boeing 747-8F service. Elite Airways began Melbourne, Fla.-Washington IAD Bombardier CRJ 200 service. Estonian Air starts 10X-weekly Tallinn- Stockholm service Sept. 29-Dec. 19, 2014 and from Jan. 26 to June 19, 2015.
At this year’s World Routes, the South American country of Ecuador was a great example of how airlines, airports and tourism authorities are working together to strengthen their exposure and promotion in international markets.
FAA said it is working to restore full service to Chicago’s airports following a “criminal incident and fire” Friday at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois that led to ground stops at Chicago O’Hare International (ORD) and Midway (MDW) airports.
