Qatar Airways is enhancing its operations to South Africa by increasing weekly frequencies to Johannesburg and by deploying new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from May 1.
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable Airline in Africa, is pleased to announce the commencement of daily services to Shanghai, China as of 29 March 2014. Ethiopian operates the Shanghai flight using its B787 Dreamliner with 24 Cloud Nine Business Class and 246 Economy Class seats.
Irish regional carrier Stobart Air, formerly Aer Arann, has inked a five-year franchise agreement with UK regional carrier Flybe covering two aircraft and six European routes.
Bangkok Airways has extended services to Chiang Rai, northern Thailand with a twice-daily Airbus A320 nonstop service from Suvarnabhumi Airport from March 28.
Delta Air Lines has relocated some of its key services—including London to New York-JFK, Boston and Seattle, Wash.—to join Virgin Atlantic at London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3, marking another step forward in the partnership between the two carriers.
United will initially introduce the aircraft on its route between Chicago O’Hare and Ronald Reagan Washington National from May 17, 2014 before launching the aircraft on its Chicago O’Hare – Boston Logan International link two days later on May 19, 2014.
Pegasus Airlines is continuing to expand its network, announcing today that it is introducing daily flights from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen to Frankfurt and Madrid from March 2014.
Emirates is set to expand its presence in Africa's most populous country Nigeria, with the start of a daily linked service to Abuja and Kano from 1 August 2014.
This new Brisbane link will be operated up to three times a week during the peak season with two weekly services in the off peak and will bring competition to the existing Hawaiian Airlines non-stop service on the route.
Malaysia’s defense and transportation department has released the full transcript of communications between the pilots of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and Kuala Lumpur air traffic control. There is no indication of anything abnormal in the transcript.
Airports Council International (ACI) said 2013 global passenger traffic rose 4% over 2012, according to recently released preliminary figures from ACI’s 1,105 reporting member airports.
In 2013, just under 6.96 bags per 1,000 passengers were delayed, a 21.2% drop over 2012 and part of a continuing trend of improved baggage handling over the last several years.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines is to launch a new direct transatlantic connection between Stavanger and Houston from August this year in partnership with premium airline operation specialist PrivatAir.
The start-up inaugurated operations on the morning of April 1, 2014 initially offering up to six daily rotations between Nairobi and Mombasa, a double daily link between the capital and Kisumu and a ten times weekly service between Nairobi and Eldoret.
