Marseille Provence Airport is eyeing destinations across the UK and Scandinavia and an expansion of flights to long-haul leisure markets as potential targets for discussions with airlines at the forthcoming Routes Europe, which is being hosted in the southern French city at the start of next month.
The UK-Ireland Functional Airspace Block (FAB) has launched an operational trial to test new ways of delivering air traffic control services to airlines.
Due to the runway maintenance works at Blantyre Chileka International Airport Ethiopian will temporarily suspend its operation to/from the subject destination from March 18, 2014 until airport service resumes.
London Gatwick Airport is launching a six-week consultation among local communities, starting April 4, seeking input on its proposals to build a second runway.
Unable to secure preferred slots at London Gatwick Airport, Garuda Indonesia has postponed the relaunch of services between Jakarta and London until September, and will then operate the London sector as extension to its Amsterdam service.
Air traffic between the EU and ASEAN has been growing steadily in recent years and has nearly doubled over the last 15 years to reach more than 10 million passengers in 2012.
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Russia’s S7 Airlines have agreed to a codeshare that will see JAL add its code to S7 flights on 12 new destinations in Russia from March 19.
Jet Asia Airways plans to take advantage of the growing mobility of Chinese passengers to create a network that can feed traffic from the country across South East Asia via a new hub it plans to develop with partner carriers at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is looking to develop a second hub at Rome Fiumicino Airport later this year, CEO Alex Cruz told ATW on the sidelines of the ITB tourism fair in Berlin.
Russia is taking lessons from NASA's aeronautics and Europe's Clean Sky programs in structuring its new civil aviation research effort, to begin in 2016.
The US Dept. of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that 743.1 million passengers were transported by US airlines in 2013, the highest annual total since 2008’s 743.3 million passengers.
Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai will launch Dubai-Moscow service in September. It will become ninth airline`s destination in Russia. The airport in Moscow has not been specified yet, but the carrier will do that soon because ticket sales start in April.
Russia’s and Tunisia’s aviation authorities have agreed to sign a new air service agreement, but it will not change the current situation regarding flights from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
