For the 2014-15 winter season (from 26 October 2014 to 28 March 2015), Air France-KLM Group capacity is scheduled to increase by 0.7%, with an increase of 0.1% for passenger operations (Air France, KLM and HOP!) and 13.3% for low-cost leisure operations (Transavia in France and the Netherlands).
Air services between Europe and Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and a developing cultural, governmental and educational centre, have been limited over recent years and the introduction of this additional transatlantic connection will help facilitate the growing long-haul demand for travel to and from the city.
Porter Airlines of Toronto and JetBlue Airways have agreed to an interline agreement, the first for Porter. Boston Logan International Airport serves as the connecting point for interline flights between the two carriers. JetBlue has 125 daily departures out of Boston and Porter flies to Boston 8X-daily from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Gulf Air and Challenge Bahrain has announced a partnership deal under which the carrier will become the official airline partner of the Kingdom's annual triathlon event, scheduled to take place this December 06, 2014.
Hamad International Airport (HIA) has officially unveiled two of its latest state-of-the-art facilities, The Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa. Located in the south node of the airport, the 100-room The Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa offer passengers passing through HIA superb services and great flexibility depending upon their travel needs and schedules.
Emirates has announced it is to launch a fourth daily service from its home and hub, Dubai International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York commencing 8th March 2015.
TIBAH Airports Operation Company, a consortium led by TAV Airports and its local partners Al Rajhi and Saudi Oger which manages Prince Mohammad International Airport (PMIA) in Madinah, has selected IFS Applications to support and manage all service and maintenance operations at PMIA.
The European Commission has called for an “urgent” meeting of the joint committee that governs the US-European Union (EU) open skies to discuss the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) delay in approving Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application to serve the US.
The UK government will implement screening at Britain’s two main gateway airports—London Heathrow and Gatwick—for passengers traveling from Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
German aviation authorities (Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, or LBA) have denied the continuation of 34 codeshare routes between Etihad Airways and its strategic equity partner airberlin for the coming winter schedule, effective at the end of October.
Blackpool Airport has announced the facility will close Oct. 15, becoming the second UK regional airport to cease operations this year after no buyer stepped forward to rescue the struggling facility.
The outlook for regional Australian carriers is looking increasingly tough, following the recent news that Australia’s Regional Express (Rex) is to cut its network following a 75% drop in profits.
Russia’s Transaero will suspend services from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport from the IATA winter schedule 2014/2015 due to the renovation of the airport’s northern part, which begins March 1, 2015.
The new link will provide the first regular link between East Africa and Dublin and will mark the return of flights between the Irish capital and Los Angeles, a market last served by Aer Lingus in November 2008. This will strengthen Ireland’s connectivity to the west coast of the United States, with California a major market for Irish tourism.
Having already secured a strong position in the domestic Mexican market, Volaris has been focussing on developing its international network. With the addition of its new service to Reno and previously announced link to Fort Lauderdale it will serve 17 international destinations with 38 routes by year-end. These are targeted at travellers wishing to visit friends and family on both sides of the border providing better travel options for the Hispanic communities in these regions.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have unveiled a plan to implement health screenings of airline passengers arriving at five US airports from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Swiss International Air Lines will be adding 22 new European destinations to its Zurich network with the start of the 2015 summer schedule, by supplementing its hub concept with a new point-to-point system.
Thomson Airways are to increase their long-haul capacity and fly to new destinations, including the only direct flight from the UK to Costa Rica in November 2015.
Today, Emirates fleet investment in Africa tops $7 billion with operating costs of over $2 billion and it currently operates to 22 passenger and six dedicated freighter destinations in Africa perating over 160 flights across the continent each week, connecting African economies and markets with Dubai and beyond to a global network of over 140 major cities.
The charity is currently running an appeal in line with World Sight Day 2014 to help eliminate avoidable blindness in Ethiopia, which has one of the highest rates of vision loss in the world. One of the conditions the appeal will raise money to tackle is trachoma which was wiped out in the UK 60 years ago, but is still the leading global cause of infectious blindness. Ethiopia has one of the highest known rates of the disease in the world.
A large majority of passengers at the new London Heathrow Terminal 2 are already using the self-service kiosks to print boarding passes and baggage tags.
