Nearly 30 freighter carriers currently serve O'Hare, including many of the largest cargo carriers from China, Europe and the Middle East. In fact, Chicago is the leading national gateway for air exports to China, representing more than 25 per cent of the entire market.
United States domestic air travellers could face a summer of higher fares thanks to a reduction in airline capacity exacerbated by the US government’s American Airlines - US Airways merger settlement, claims aviation intelligence provider, OAG.
Air France has announced it will deploy an Airbus A380 on its Paris Charles de Gaulle – Miami International route this winter. The flag carrier confirms the Super Jumbo will replace a Boeing 777 on its daily flight on the route from December 1, 2014 through to the end of the winter schedule on March 28, 2015.
The total traffic for the four days is an increase of 36 per cent over the same period at the end of Eid Al Fitr in 2013, when 133,007 passengers took an Etihad Airways flight.
As with the smaller 787-8, the US major will be the first North American operator of the larger 787-9 and is expected to receive its first aircraft next month.
American Airlines will offer a three times weekly link between New York and Viracopos from December 1, 2014 and a daily link between Miami and Viracopos from December 2, 2014, subject to government approval, complementing its existing flights from both US destinations to Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport.
IATA cautioned that that failure to release the airline monies puts at risk a major contributor to the well-being of the Venezuelan economy. According to its data, international capacity to and from Venezuela is down 49 per cent from peak service levels offered last year and 36 per cent lower year-on-year as flights are cancelled or frequencies reduced.
As Airbus and Boeing go head-to-head in negotiations for Emirates Airline’s outstanding order of 70 extra-widebodied aircraft, aviation intelligence expert OAG has revealed the critical importance of Emirates’ choice and how it could impact up to 88 per cent of the carrier’s flights.
Despite limited current connectivity to and from Curaçao, the US actually overtook the Netherlands and Venezuela as the largest source/destination market for the country in 2013 with around 265,000 bi-directional passengers; an 18.3 per cent demand share, up from just 9.1 per cent in 2008.
Cap Haïtien is viewed as a developing leisure destination for foreign visitors with the calm water of the bay, picturesque Caribbean beaches, wealth of French colonial architecture and many historic monuments making it a popular resort and holiday destination for Haïti's upper classes.
Delta introduced Salt Lake City’s first regular transatlantic connection to Europe in June 2008 when it inaugurated flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and has seen traffic on the route grow over the subsequent years through a mix of point-to-point demand and transfer passengers connecting across Europe and further afield via the Air France network.
The new service will expand the KLM network in Latin America to eleven destinations but does not actually mark its debut in Colombia as the Dutch flag carrier previously served the Colombian capital, Bogota, from October 1992 until March 1995.
The expanded Brisbane schedule will boost capacity on the route by 2,166 seats a week and will support the growing demand for connectivity to North America from Queensland. North America is actually Queensland’s third largest tourism market and the increase in services support the 4.2 per cent increase in passenger numbers experienced in 2013.
This is the first start-up aid scheme that the European Commission has assessed under its new guidelines on state aid to airports and airlines which came into force on April 4, 2014. The guidelines have simplified the rules on public support granted by Member States for the start-up of new air transport routes.
