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Qatar Airways to Fly Direct into Adelaide with Airbus A350-900

Qatar Airways will begin making daily flights to and from Adelaide, with the South Australian Government saying it will boost jobs and the economy. The airline announced services between Adelaide and Qatar would begin in May next year with an Airbus A350-900 flying the route, the first...

Macau International Airport Traffic Record Up 6% During Golden Week

From October 1-7 (the Golden Week), passenger volume recorded over 120,000 and aircraft movement recorded over 1200 representing a 6% and 5% increase respectively comparing to same period last year. Macau International Airport (MIA) recorded over 4.4 million passengers till 7th Octob...

Qantas Plans Non-Stop Flight from Perth to London on New Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Aircraft

Qantas plans to offer a 19 hour non-stop flight between Perth and London within two years, to become the longest commercial flight in the world. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline had plans to fly the 14,000 kilometre route between Australia and the UK by 2017 using its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. "The 787-9 has the range to operate such a route," Joyce told A...

Guiyang Airport Welcomes First B787 Dreamliner

Yesterday a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Hainan Airlines (HU) performing flight HU7189 from Beijing landed smoothly at Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE) , marking the arrival of its first ever B787 Dreamliner in the airport's history. Currently Guiyang Airport operates wide-body aircraft including A330-300s and A330-200s. With the approaching of 2015 winter/spring f...

United Airlines Offers the Most International Flights from NYC and D.C. In May

United Airlines, the airline offering the most nonstop flights from New York/Newark and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, is adding daily trans-Atlantic summer-season service between: New York/Newark and Athens, Greece, from May 25 through Oct. 5, 2016 Washington/Dulles and Barcelona, Spain, from May 25 through Sept. 6, 2016 Washington/Dulles and Lisbon, Portugal, May 25 through Sept....

United Airlines: Now You Can Book a United 787 Nonstop to Xi'an, China

United Airlines, the airline with the most U.S.-China service, has made seats available for sale to its newest China destination, Xi’an. The nonstop service will be the first trans-Pacific flights to Xi’an operated by any airline, and United will be the first U.S. airline to serve the city. United intends to use the world’s most advanced passenger airplane, the Boeing 787 D...

What’s new at JetBlue T5 JFK?

How About the First Blue Potato Farm at an Airport! JetBlue and Terra have revealed the Experimental Farm at Terminal 5 (T5) at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The potato farm and a produce garden has sprouted pre-security on the departure level, along the west side of the terminal. This new space will promote New York Agriculture, thanks to the partner...

Aspen Airport Looks to the Future

Officials in Colorado took a major step towards determining the future of Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (ASE) at a recent county board of commissioners meeting when they voted to approve one of 18 layout plans (ALP) for the development of the airport. With only a 320-foot separation from the runway centerline to the taxiway centerline, the airport, a gateway to Aspen’s posh ski resorts and pal...

gate.control - the procedure for identifying materials globally

gate.control is an innovative procedure developed by Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services GmbH (LTLS), a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, to identify aircraft material in the international repair cycle. A patent has already been registered for the procedure and the gate.control box. The mobile box measuring just one cubic meter in size for the first time allows a compre...

Volumes growth of 1.6% in the last 12 months at Heathrow

Cargo volumes at Heathrow Airport have grown 1.6 per cent over the past 12 months fuelled by rises to emerging markets. The airport says airfreight to Mexico has increased by 36 per cent, to Turkey 25 per cent, to Brazil 13 per cent and to India five per cent. But in September, Heathrow saw a fall and handled 119,091 tonnes, which was down 4.4 per cent on the same month last y...

Wizz Air connects Košice to Bristol

Wizz Air commenced services between Košice (KSC) and Bristol (BRS) on 10 October. The 1,728-kilometre sector will operate twice-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and be flown using the airline’s A320s. Tamara Mshvenieradze, Corporate Communications Manager, Wizz Air, commented about the launch by saying: “Today marks a great day for us at Wizz Air as we launc...

Man Hides Morphine in His Crotch, Arrested at Guangzhou Airport

A male passenger was arrested at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) last Friday after trying to pass security with morphine hidden in his crotch. At around 8:00 on Oct. 9 when a male passenger was getting through security at Guangzhou airport, the security staff spotted something abnormal in his crotch. After inspection they found a black plastic film wrappage under his...

Aviation Experts Caution States On Airport Projects

NO fewer than four state governments have unveiled plans to build airports in their respective states. The latest with such plan is Ekiti State. Besides Ekiti, Bayelsa, Abia, Osun and Ogun states are at various stages in their plans to build an airport each. By the time the airports are completed, they would have spent close to N150b on the projects that may not be different from the ones in De...

Smaller Chinese Cities Lure More Airlines to Fly Direct International Flights from Their Airports

Expect an ever increasing number of direct flights connecting global metropolises with second- and third-tier mainland cities you may never have heard of, as the Chinese middle class's growing appetite for air travel puts more mainland airports on the map for airline companies. Xi'an to Sydney, Chengdu to Osaka, Shenyang to San Francisco ... those are but a few of the direct routes bein...

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