Airports Commission chairman Howard Davies has strongly urged the UK government to act quickly to establish an independent noise authority to help re-establish trust and improve the quality of the airport capacity debate.
Etihad Airways and its new Swiss regional equity partner Darwin Airline have announced the destinations Darwin will add under its new identity as Etihad Regional.
American Airlines Group will end year-round daily nonstop services to 17 cities from Washington National airport and three cities from New York LaGuardia as part of its regulatory requirement to divest slots at the airport.
The much-delayed opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is creating a “high double-digit million euro amount of damage” to airberlin, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ATW.
Irish budget carrier Ryanair will open bases at Athens and Thessaloniki in April 2014, adding three more aircraft and nine new routes to its Greek operations.
American Airlines Group said it has started the first phase of codesharing between American Airlines and US Airways as the carriers’ merger integration process gets underway in earnest.
Airberlin and Etihad Airways, which have been in a strategic partnership for two years, have unveiled an Airbus A320 aircraft in a specially designed joint livery at Berlin Brandenburg International Airport.
Russian and UK aviation authorities have agreed to designate second carriers for the Saint Petersburg-London route, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, said in a statement.