Tenerife has taken on an active role in enhancing air connectivity to the island and Turismo de Tenerife, the official agency on the island responsible for promoting the island internationally as a premier leisure destination has highlighted air connectivity as one of key priorities within the growth strategy.
Currently, about 50,000 people fly between Boston and Mexico City every year. The service is expected to generate approximately $50 million in economic activity in Massachusetts.
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at the news breaking the same week in previous years and revisit it one or two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
Ahead of next year's Routes Americas in Denver, Routesonline approached Tom Clark, chief executive officer, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation to learn more about the destination.
This year, Routes was entered into the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Connect Awards which celebrates and rewards the very best in events and won the 'Networking Event of the Year' award for last year's World Routes forum in Las Vegas, USA.
The new airline will operate under a revised Eurowings brand but will be flown under the air operator certificate (AOC) of SunExpress Deutschland using the latter’s cockpit and cabin crews. It will be based at Cologne/Bonn Airport and will initially launch operations from the end of 2015, serving destinations in Florida, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean.
9 Air was established earlier this year as a subsidiary of privately-owned Juneyao Airlines. It is the third low-cost carrier to operate in China after Spring Airlines and China West Air and plans to offer fares priced at 9 yuan, 99 yuan, 199 yuan and 299 yuan, meaning its cheapest fares will be the equivalent of $1.50.
The enhanced focus on the African market is a key part of the carrier’s Long-Term Turnaround Strategy, and is in response to positive market growth. Over the course of the first week of December 2014, SAA is adding another seven weekly flights across four routes.
St. John’s International Airport situated in Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada has registered a record amount of numbers during its summer 2014 season.
Currently Blue Islands operate alternate day direct flights from Jersey to Amsterdam and Paris and twice weekly services to Zurich, which customers, especially the high yield business travellers that help support regional air links, find inconvenient.
The Luxembourg based cargo airline is expanding its services to Vietnam, with the addition of a second flight into Ho Chi Minh City, and a fourth frequency to Hanoi.
It appears that Qatar Airways will inaugurate scheduled passenger flights with its new Airbus A350XWB from January 15, 2015 on the Doha – Frankfurt route. The Gulf carrier, the launch customer for the next-generation airliner, has already revealed the German city would be the first destination for the aircraft, but it has yet to confirm when the flights will launch.
We took a look at the top 20 airlines in the world by operating carrier, analysing the network capacity in December 2013 against the same month this year.
Emirates first introduced flights to Dar es Salaam in conjunction with its services to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. However, in March 2006 the airline initially split the route and introduced its first non-stop flights to the Tanzanian city, later establishing a dedicated daily flight to the destination from December 2006.
Two years can be an eternity for a startup airline and there are examples in East Africa that some did not survive the first two months of operations before folding again. The same cannot be said for Fastjet, Tanzania which celebrating its second birthday.
