The Star Alliance member has eight Dreamliners on order, all to be leased from International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC). This includes six 787-8s due from this year (four in 2014 and two in 2015) and two of larger 787-9s, which will follow in 2017.
The route announcement comes eight years after Ryanair pulled out of Cardiff Airport after it ended an at least daily service from its Dublin headquarters in May 2006.
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana will begin summer season charter flights from Almaty and Astana to Southern Europe in June, following the lifting of restrictions by the European Union in April.
Already serving both Washington Reagan National and Baltimore Washington International airports, the carrier will launch 68 weekly flights to 14 destinations from Dulles International Airport from August this year.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has contracted Airbus Defense and Space to conduct a study into the feasibility of using so-called “passive radar” technology for air traffic management (ATM).
It is very early days for the Fly Blue Crane project and details of its planned operations are vague, although unlike most other start-ups the suggestion is it will avoid ‘The Golden Triangle’ domestic network linking Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg and will instead focus on serving regional markets both with point-to-point flights and direct links to the major cities.
Emirates Airline began flights to Singapore in 1990 and it remains an important gateway in the Far East & Australasia region for the carrier, connecting passengers to Melbourne, Brisbane, Colombo and Dubai, and onward to destinations across Europe, the United States, Africa and the Middle East.
A security breach at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport’s Qantas and Jetstar Terminal delayed passengers by more than an hour on Sunday as authorities ordered a complete evacuation and re-screening.
United will inaugurate the new route on October 26, 2014, subject to final government approval. Haneda Airport will be the tenth trans-Pacific destination that United serves nonstop from San Francisco, and the third new Asia-Pacific airport for the carrier this year.
Arik Air has begun exploring the possibility of introducing a direct service to India, following a recent visit from the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency, Ajjampur Rangalah Ghanashyam to the airline's headquarters in Lagos.
There are currently no direct services between Ecuador and Fort Lauderdale, although American Airlines and LanEcuador offer flights to Miami from Quito. According to MIDT data, an estimated 422,000 bi-directional O&D passengers travelled between Ecuador and Florida in 2013.
SriLankan Airlines is planning to shift its maintenance and training activities, along with its leisure connecting traffic, to the island nation’s second international gateway at Mattala.
Manston Airport in Kent, Southeast England, is set to close May 15 despite an eleventh hour offer from US investment firm RiverOak to purchase the loss-making facility.
New Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach and departure procedures are set to enable flights to operate into and out of Queenstown Airport on New Zealand’s South Island after dark in 2016.
The airline currently utilises a 136-seat Boeing 737-700 on its daily Toronto - Québec City route but will replace this with a 78-seat Dash 8-Q400NextGen when Encore takes over the operation of the route from March 15, 2015.
Emirates has marked its inaugural flight to Brussels in Belgium. The new daily service will see up to 16,000 Emirates customers travelling on the daily Boeing 777-200LR between Dubai and Brussels each month.
