Network growth across both its domestic and international markets has helped boost traffic at Detroit Metropolitan Airport during the first half of this year. Latest data from the airport operator shows an additional 817,000 passengers were handled over the first six months of the year versus the same period in 2015, a rise of 5.1 percent.
As World Routes returns to mainland China, Routesonline is providing a snapshot on the leading international airlines and international airports and most used aircraft types on international flights from the country and highlights the country's top performers during the first half of 2016.
The inner-city London airport has been given planning permission for an extension. The £344 million investment programme includes plans for seven new aircraft stands.
With only eight weeks to go until World Routes heads to Chengdu, some hotels are now fully booked. Start planning your trip to Chengdu and secure your hotel accommodation as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
An amended purchase agreement with Airbus includes an additional 15 Airbus A321ceo (current engine option) and 15 A321neo (new engine option) aircraft, but for deliveries from 2019 JetBlue holds the flexibility to configure the neo equipment to the Longer Range version of the A321 – the A321LR, which would be well-suited to possible future transatlantic flights.
LATAM Airlines is resurrecting the former LAN Peru link between Cartagena and Lima from January 2017, initially operating with four weekly frequencies using Airbus A320 equipment. This marks a significant growth in capacity versus when it was flown under the LAN Airlines guise between April 2009 and June 2011 when there were just two weekly rotations using a smaller A319 airliner.
Lucky Air is among the members of the HNA Group’s U-FLY low-cost alliance and its rise into the intercontinental market could represent the arrival of a new breed of Chinese low-cost, long-haul operations. The airline has requested rights from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to introduce flights from its Yunnan province base to both Los Angeles and Moscow.
Alaska Airlines will significantly expand at Newark Liberty International Airport and introduce new services from Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California from the start of November 2016, with new service to San Jose, California beginning in March 2017.
In a formal request to Airport Coordination Limited (ACL), the body responsible for slot allocation, schedules facilitation and schedule data collection at Manchester, Singapore Airlines has requested to double its operations at Manchester with two arriving and two departing flights each morning.
A new fifth daytime slot pair for scheduled service to and from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo has been preliminary awarded to Delta Air Lines for flights from Minneapolis-St Paul, ahead of another Delta proposition from Atlanta, American Airlines from Dallas and United Airlines from Newark.
Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico has been attending Routes events for more than ten years and places a big emphasis on the role of relationships within the route development process including utilising the ‘city pair’ meeting offering with great success.
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Qatar Airways never misses the opportunity to make a major announcement at any trade show that it attends. However, this is normally through major fleet orders at the big airshows and network expansion at business events not major investments in international airlines.
With just 10 weeks to go until the world’s largest route development event opens in Chengdu, airline registrations are flooding in from all corners of the globe.
Within ten years China’s domestic air traffic will become the world’s largest, manufacturers Airbus and Boeing once again reinforced in the latest editions of their Global Market Forecast and Current Market Outlook released at the Farnborough International Airshow this week.
AirAsia has signed a firm order with Airbus for the purchase of 100 A321neo aircraft, its first order for the largest model of the A320 Family. Seating up to 236 passengers in a single class layout, the A321neo will enable the airline to increase capacity versus its current A320 fleet while benefitting from the lowest operating costs in the single aisle category.
With new and more fuel-efficient aircraft now able to fly direct from Europe, Hawaii is keen to build relationships with airlines to attract a new generation of travellers.
Ethiopian Airlines has come a long way during its first 70 years – and it has plenty of groundbreaking plans for the decades to come. Gary Noakes reports for Routes News.
The anticipated arrival of the first AirAsia X long-haul, low-cost flights at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on the island of Mauritius in October this year is just one good example of the leisure potential that Africa holds for future air service connectivity.
As ISIS activity grows across North Africa, it has led to a devastating impact upon North Africa’s tourism - the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) shows that visits to North Africa fell by 8% in 2015. The decline has occurred as the security threat level has grown in the region, particularly in Egypt and Tunisia where high profile terror attacks have brought safety to the forefront of everyone’s minds.
A new – and free – security review for airports provided by the Airports Council International looks set to help drive best practice across long-suffering destinations in Africa.
Aviation is a catalyst for growth, a vital conduit for world trade, and a major global employer. Nearly 63 million jobs and $2.4 trillion in global GDP are supported by aviation. But with these benefits comes an impact on the environment. Whether that is climate change, aircraft noise, local air quality, environment advocacy actions and most recently illegal wildlife trafficking.
