The Lufthansa Group will continue to suspend flights to Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq until further notice, following a reassessment of the security situation in Iraq.
The third edition of the two-day Global Airport Leaders Forum (GALF-2015) will be held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) from May 11 and 12 as a co-located event of the 15th edition of Airport Show.
The confirmation of the A380 deployment follows the recent approval from the New Zealand Minister of Transport to a proposed alliance between Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand which endorsed the earlier decision from the Competition Commission of Singapore.
Emirates will grow its services to and from Milan with the upgrade of one of its daily Boeing 777-300 services to an A380 from 1st December. This will be the first ever permanently scheduled A380 service to Milan Malpensa Airport.
Qatar Airways will boost services to Thailand with the introduction of non-stop flights to Phuket, effective October 26th, 2014. The airline currently serves the Doha – Phuket route daily via a linked service through the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
Air China will introduce a second daily rotation on its route between Beijing and London Heathrow from October 26, 2014, while China Eastern will boost its existing Shanghai route to the UK's largest international air gateway from October 29, 2014 with a sixth weekly flight.
The economic woes in Greece have had a profound effect on the aviation business in the country but passenger numbers at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (AIA) have remained relatively robust and during the last quarter of 2013 the facility returned to growth.
The European Commission (EC) is urging the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to approve Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit, arguing that the application does not violate the US-EU Open Skies agreement’s clause on labor regulations.
Russian authorities are discussing responding to sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) that led to the grounding of Aeroflot subsidiary Dobrolet.
Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport could be a contender for low-cost carrier (LCC) dominance in Southeast Asia following the addition of Thai Airways LCC subsidiary Thai Smile.
African low-cost carrier Fastjet has launched its third international route this week, with the inauguration of flights between its home base of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Harare, Zimbabwe.
Air Seychelles and Alitalia have inked a codeshare agreement enabling passengers on both airlines to fly between Rome, Milan and Venice to Seychelles via Abu Dhabi, with just one ticket for their entire journey.
Air France has announced it will deploy an Airbus A380 on its Paris Charles de Gaulle – Miami International route this winter. The flag carrier confirms the Super Jumbo will replace a Boeing 777 on its daily flight on the route from December 1, 2014 through to the end of the winter schedule on March 28, 2015.
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, announced it has signed a codeshare agreement with Alitalia, Italy's leading airline.
fastjet's has announced that its inaugural flight between Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Harare in Zimbabwe took place on Tuesday, marking the launch of the low-cost airline's third international route in Africa, and the only direct air link between the two African capital cities.
