The first Uzbekistan flight landed in Lahore as per the schedule according to which the Uzbek flagship carrier will operate two flights a week – Wednesday and Friday – from Tashkent to Lahore. Uzbekistan Airways resumed its flight operation from Tashkent to Lahore on Wednesday following a four-year pause. Uzbekistan Airways suspended its flight operation for Pakistan in 2013 after it lacked a required number of passengers. Later, Tashkent-to-Lahore flight operation was rescheduled and had to...
South African Airways (SAA), the national carrier of South Africa and a leading airline on the African continent has received the Skytrax™ 4-Star rating for the 15th consecutive year. The annual rating by British aviation experts, Skytrax™, once again bestowed the 4-Star rating to SAA, after detailed product and service standard audits throughout the airline. As measured along-side many international carriers throughout the world, a 4-Star rating signifies airlines providing a good standard of...
Rwandan national airline, RwandAir, launched four times weekly service between Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali and Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. The airline will fly between Kigali and Harare (via Lusaka) on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The airline’s official said that the carrier is looking to increase the frequency next month and start offering day and night flights. RwandAir will use Next Generation 737-800 aircraft to service the route. RwandAir’s move...
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, has celebrated the launch of its new, twice-per-week service between Düsseldorf and Seychelles with a stylish cocktail event at the highest lounge bar in Germany. More than 100 guests attended the glamorous function at Günnewig Bar & Lounge M 168, which sits at a height of 168 meters above the ground and offers sweeping views of the Germany city. VIP guests at the chic cocktail party included Roy Kinnear, Chief Executive...
Turkish Airlines, flying to more countries than any other airline in the world, this time has taken off for an important journey in the name of humanity. Call for action to Turkish Airlines by the social media phenomenon and online celebrities, while immensely resonates throughout the globe, has become a huge hope for the people of Somalia. Started by Jerome Jarre, the French social media celebrity and his five friends, the social media campaign on Twitter hashtags #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia...
Senior executives from more than two dozen airports across the country are in Ottawa today to meet with parliamentarians and highlight the important role airports play in Canada’s economy. “Airports provide connections for passengers and cargo across Canada and around the world, resulting in greater global reach and increased business, export, tax revenues, tourism and job opportunities for Canada,” said Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of the Canadian Airports Council (CAC)...
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) today announced its proprietary line of self-serve border control solutions, BorderXpress, has been expanded to meet the requirements of Canada Border Service Agency’s (CBSA) new Primary Inspection Kiosk (PIK) program. Under the PIK program, the CBSA is expanding its use of border kiosks at Canadian airports, and will now offer selfservice options to an increased number of incoming international travelers. “Border clearance kiosks are the way of the future...
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America today announces new daily, nonstop service between Portland, Oregon, and New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) beginning Nov. 6; Portland and Detroit beginning Aug. 30; and Los Angeles and Philadelphia beginning Sept. 1. “Alaska Airlines continues to expand service from our West Coast hubs by adding convenient, nonstop flights to popular destinations like New York City, Philadelphia and Detroit,” said John Kirby, vice president of capacity...
Sabre Corporation, a global technology provider to the travel and tourism industry, will provide consulting services to several of its member airlines through a new agreement with the African Airlines Association (AFRAA). Ten carriers will take part in Sabre’s consulting program – including Rwandair, South African Airways and Royal Air Maroc – which will include a comprehensive analysis of the airlines’ brands and customer satisfaction and will provide each airline with a Net...
Budapest Airport has welcomed five strategically important new connections with Wizz Air, the ultra-low-cost carrier now linking the Hungarian gateway to five capitals in the Balkans region: Skopje (Macedonia), Podgorica (Montenegro), Tirana (Albania), Pristina (Kosovo) and Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Speaking at today’s press conference, Jost Lammers, CEO, Budapest Airport said: “The launch of Wizz Air’s latest links is a significant step in re-establishing good connections between...
Airways New Zealand is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The air navigation services provider (ANSP) was one of New Zealand’s first State Owned Enterprises and one of the first ANSPs to corporatise globally. Formerly the Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport, Airways started its new life as an SOE in April 1987. “The move put Airways at the cutting edge of change and is something that many of our counterparts are only considering now,” CEO Ed Sims says. “Since then we have kept...
Vietjet (VJC – HOSE) announces its consolidated financial statements of 2016, audited by KPMG International Auditing Company. Following the international standard initial public offering procedures (Reg-S), Vietjet released financial statements in compliance to the Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). According to the audited report, Vietjet enjoyed an extremely successful year in 2016 netting the highest recorded revenue and profit...
Hahn Air announced that in the first quarter of this year it has already integrated eleven new carriers into its global network of more than 300 air, rail and shuttle partners. With its ticketing solutions, the German IATA airline facilitates global business between travel agencies and airlines. Its global infrastructure consisting of connections to all major Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and memberships in almost all Billing and Settlement Plans (BSPs) enables 100,000 travel agencies...
Qatar Airways excelled in four categories of the TravelPlus Airline Amenity Bag Awards held in Hamburg, Germany last night. The airline’s new range of on-board products won the awards for First Class Female Amenity Kit, Business Class Middle East Amenity Kit, Children’s Goody Bag (over six years old) and Sleeper Suit / Pyjamas at the prestigious industry event. Mr. Rossen Dimitrov, Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Customer Experience, said: “Receiving four gold awards for our new range of on...
TAP Portugal has introduced a new branded fare structure aimed at offering customers more freedom of choice when purchasing tickets for intercontinental flights. Similar to the new branded fares that launched September for Europe and North Africa, customers can now select the products, throughout the entire TAP network, that best meet their travel needs, in a simple and transparent way, and pay only the price corresponding to the products they most value. There are four fare brand options...
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released demand growth results for global air freight markets for February 2017 showing an 8.4% increase in demand measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs) compared to the same period last year. After adjusting for the impact of the leap year in 2016, demand increased by 12% — almost four times better than the five-year average rate of 3.0%. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), shrank by 0...
According to Tim Clyde-Smith, SAA’s Country Manager for Australasia, new visa rules came into force on January 16 of this year South African Airways has issued a warning to remind travelers about the need for New Zealand passport holders living in Australia to obtain a visa before visiting South Africa. “While the majority of New Zealand passport holders do get the necessary documentation and obtain their visas, we are seeing quite a few incidents when people are unaware of the requirements,”...
The Crystal Cabin Awards were presented in Hamburg for the 11th time on Tuesday evening. The winners of the most famous and prestigious international prize for aircraft interiors, Delta Air Lines, Diehl, Global Eagle Entertainment, Vanema, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) and twice Airbus, received their trophies in the Ball Room of the Hotel Atlantic Kempinski. More exciting than ever before – with Bombardier, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, three international...
British Airways – the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom (based on fleet size), has begun nonstop service from London to New Orleans. Currently the airline flies the London-New Orleans route four days per week, but it has announced that starting October 30th, 2017, the service will increase to five times per week. This new, international nonstop flight will depart from London-Heathrow Airport and fly to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, connecting...
Austrian Airlines’ inaugural flight OS 81 will touchdown at Tom Bradley International Airport in Los Angeles at 1:30 pm on Monday, April 10 from Vienna, Austria. Then at 2:30, boarding will begin for flight OS 82 to Vienna. This maiden flight of Austrian Airlines for its first-ever route to the US west coast will be operated 6 times a week from Los Angeles, California, to Vienna, Austria, using a Boeing 777 aircraft. Not only is this opening up a direct pathway between Southern California and...
Oceanair Linhas Aéreas S.A. (Avianca Brasil) has announced that it will launch daily passenger service between Miami International Airport and Sao Paulo on June 23, 2017. The flights will be served by Airbus A330-200 aircraft that seat 238 passengers. Miami will be the first U.S. destination and only the second outside of Brazil for the airline, which has operated freighter service at MIA since 2015. Avianca Brasil, which has been a scheduled carrier since 2002, currently serves 22 destinations...
Five years ago SkyWork Airlines commenced operations from Cologne Bonn Airport to Berne. Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the launch, the German airport has marked the success and continuity of the route to the Swiss airline’s base. Having carried more than 60,000 passengers on the service since the inaugural flight on 25 March 2012, SkyWork has operated almost 3,600 flights on the airport pair, Cologne Bonn’s only link to Switzerland’s capital city.
China Southern Airlines has confirmed a second daily departure between Heathrow and Guangzhou starting the 1st of June of this year. The airline’s twice daily service, the only direct connection between the UK and southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, is strategically important for a global, outward looking Britain. The new service will use a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and will lower transfer times to China Southern Airlines’ network of over 120 destinations in China, Japan & Korea, South East...
Cologne Bonn Airport has announced today that Wizz Air will be adding a new service to Košice from the German gateway this summer. Having just celebrated the start of the ultra-low-cost carrier’s (ULCC) new links to Craiova and Tuzla last week, Wizz Air has confirmed a twice-weekly connection to Slovakia, set to commence from 25 June. Adding its ninth service from Cologne Bonn, the ULCC faces no direct competition on the airport pair as it launches the airport’s first connection to Slovakia...
On April 1st, 2017 the number 30 held much significance in Pure Grenada, the Spice of the Caribbean. British Airways (BA) and Grenada celebrated 30 years of partnership and for three hotels their 30 year commitment to service excellence was also celebrated. A short commemoration ceremony was held at the Maurice Bishop International Airport along with a special treat for visitors arriving on British Airways; sweet steel pan music and refreshing local beverages. In 1987, then Minister of Tourism...
Boeing has signed a $3.4 billion deal with Iran’s Aseman Airlines to supply 30 737 MAX aircraft to the carrier. It’s the first Boeing deal with Tehran since President Donald Trump took office pledging to take a harder stance with the country. Aseman is owned by Iran’s civil service pension fund and operates as a private company. It is the third-largest carrier in Iran. The 30 jets are to be delivered as part of a larger deal, which implies a possible delivery of another 30 planes to...
By launching flights to Voronezh, Turkish Airlines adds another destination to existing services to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Rostov, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Ufa, and Stavropol. Due to the carrier’ capacity increase strategy on its Russia flights, round-trip services between Istanbul and Voronezh will be operated as 3 times per week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, beginning from today. Voronezh is a city and the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, straddling the Voronezh...
Brussels Airlines – the flag carrier and largest airline of Belgium – based and headquartered at Brussels Airport, has launched a new service that links Mumbai, India, with Brussels, Belgium. Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, formerly known as Sahar International Airport, is the primary international airport serving the Mumbai Metropolitan Area. Brussels is an important hub in the heart of Europe. The service will operate five times a week and will cater to...
Klaus Goersch, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Air Canada has resigned effective April 30, 2017. He will continue to lead Air Canada’s operations until his departure. The Corporation will announce his successor in due course. Air Canada is Canada’s largest domestic and international airline serving more than 200 airports on six continents. Canada’s flag carrier is among the 20 largest airlines in the world and in 2016 served close to 45 million...
The United States Department of Justice filed a motion today which asks US District Judge Derrick Watson to pause proceedings of Hawaii’s lawsuit until the government’s appeal has been resolved. The Department of Justice is appealing the ruling made by Hawaii federal Judge Watson which puts an indefinite hold on President’s Trump’s executive order to suspend new visas from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen and stops the US refugee program. The motion states that the outcome of the...
