SkyTeam

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The global airline alliance has a new leader and aspirations to grow its membership by recruiting carriers in India and Brazil.

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Japan Airlines and Aeroflot are to start codeshare flights as part of a wider planned collaboration that could lead to a joint business being created in the future.

China Southern Airlines has finalised an order for 38 Boeing aircraft as it readies for the opening of Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Taiwan’s largest carrier plans to add 14,122 more seats on the Sydney – Christchurch sector by operating for the full 22 weeks from October to March.

China Airlines will be the first member of the SkyTeam alliance to offer flights to New Zealand’s South Island and will enable various connection opportunities in Sydney to the services of other partners of the grouping.

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.

US major Delta Air Lines is to launch services between Chicago and London Heathrow from late October this year as it further strengthens in

The past decade has seen international flights increase their share of total U.S. airline movements, according to aviation intelligence provider, OAG

Future SkyTeam alliance member Garuda Indonesia has confirmed it has delayed the planned introduction of non-stop flights between Jakarta and London

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways have reached an agreement for a new joint venture on transatlantic flights between the UK and US that will

Chinese carrier Xiamen Airlines was today (November 21, 2012) welcomed as the 19th member of the SkyTeam alliance after it completed its formal entry