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Etihad adds weekly services to Philippines

Etihad Airways will add three new weekly services between Abu Dhabi and Manila from 1 May 2016, offering a total of 17 return flights per week. Etihad Airways’ President and Chief Executive Officer, James Hogan, said the new services would enable Etihad Airways to offer guests more ch...

U.S.-Cuba aviation deal allows 110 scheduled flights a day

The United States and Cuba have struck a deal to allow as many as 110 regular airline flights a day, allowing a surge of American travel to Cuba that could eventually flood the island with hundreds of thousands more U.S. visitors a year, officials said Thursday on the anniversary of detente between...

Air France launches a new route to Glasgow in Scotland

Heading north to Glasgow, at the heart of Scotland As from 27 March 2016 and for the entire 2016 summer season, Air France will be offering a new daily flight between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Glasgow international airport in Scotland. Flights will be operated by Airbus A318 with a capacity of 131 seats. “The launch of flights to Glasgow next summer highlights our desire to serve gro...

Silver Airways Plans a Return to Cuba and Announces Review of Strategic Alternatives

Silver Airways, Florida’s largest intrastate airline, today announced its intention to resume nonstop service to Cuba in 2016. The company has a long history of providing charter flights to Cuba, and given the announcement of a new bilateral agreement between Cuba and the U.S., Silver plans to bring much needed commercial service to many Cuban destinations in the near future. The airline wil...

Malindo Air Continues Expansion To Colombo

Malindo Air, recent winners of Airline of the Year 2014 and Top Performing Airline 2015 awards, continues its expansion plans by launching daily services today from Kuala Lumpur to Colombo. The daily services to Sri Lanka mark the airline’s ninth country in its international network expansion. Introductory fares for the new route from Kuala Lumpur to Colombo start at RM339 for Economy...

Qantas takes off for San Francisco

Qantas is on its way back to San Francisco for the first time since 2011 after flight QF 73 took off from Sydney Airport on Friday afternoon. The Boeing 747-400ER operating the flight, VH-OEG, departed from the NSW capital a little after 1510 local time. The airline’s return to the Bay Area for the first time since 2011 kicks off a new joint-venture partnership between Qantas and Ameri...

Perth Airport looking for new CEO

Perth Airport is in the market for a new chief executive after announcing incumbent Brad Geatches will leave the company on July 1 2016. Colin Beckett, the chairman of Perth Airport, said it was the right time for a change at the top and a global search for a new chief executive was underway. “The next cycle of major capital investment and commercial discussions with airlines will comm...

Questions raised over runway safety operations

The tragic incident at Mumbai airport, where a technician of Air India airlines was killed after he was sucked into a plane engine, has raised serious questions on the safety of runway operations at the Indian airports. As per civil aviation rules, a runway should be completely free from any kind of obstruction at the time of landing or take off. Many of the around 100 passengers who were on th...

US, Cuba agree to let airlines begin flights

Cuba and the United States reached an agreement Wednesday night that will allow US commercial airlines to begin operating flights to the island for the first time in decades, according to US officials with knowledge of the discussion. The understanding comes on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the announcement that the two countries would restore diplomatic ties and turn the page on a hal...

Turkish Airlines suspends Mogadishu flights following attack

Turkish Airlines has suspended its daily flights to the Somali capital Mogadishu following a failed al-Shabaab attack on the airport on the evening of Sunday, December 13. Local media report the terrorists attempted a water-borne assault on the airfield but were repelled by African Union forces stationed on the beach front. Aden Adde International Airport's sole runway 05/23 only op...

Kuwait Airways withdraws from London-New York market

Kuwait Airways is withdrawing from the New York JFK-London Heathrow market after the US Department of Transportation (DOT) ruled against the carrier in a discrimination case brought by an Israeli citizen earlier this year. Though the Kuwaiti carrier will continue to operate a 3x weekly New York JFK-Kuwait via London Heathrow service, it is no longer accepting passengers for the UK-US secto...

Passenger numbers up at east coast capitals

Australia’s three east coast capital city airports all posted healthy increases both domestic and international passenger numbers in November. Melbourne Airport said international travellers rose 9.9 per cent to 728,212 at Tullamarine in November, compared with the prior corresponding period, as airlines such as Air China, China Eastern, China Southern and Philippine Airlines added extra...

Etihad to deploy two-class 787-9 to Perth from June 2016

Perth is among five cities set to receive Etihad Airways’ first batch of two-class Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners due for delivery from May 2016. While the initial deliveries of 787-9s to Etihad featured eight first, 28 business and 199 economy seats for a total of 235, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier is introducing in 2016 five two-class versions of the Dreamliner configured with 299 seats compris...

Dubai International, passenger number grows by 4.4% in October, 2015

Passenger traffic at Dubai International, rose 4.4 per cent in October, according to a traffic report issued by operator Dubai Airports. Passenger numbers in October totalled 6,250,810, compared to 5,989,007 recorded in October of last year. Year to date traffic rose 11.2 per cent to 64,947,687 compared to 58,411,554 recorded during the same period last year. Aircraft movements rose to 34,91...

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