Air New Zealand is to, from the 27th November, is launching the 787-9 on service to Fiji, which sees the Dreamliner operating up to 5 times a week. The service will fly to Nadi and will as follows: NZ52 departs Auckland at 9:45 and arrives to Nadi at 11:50am. NZ53 departs Nadi at 1:10pm and…
Colombia’s national airline, Avianca, has announced that it will increase the frequency of its London to Bogota flight. Passengers wishing to fly from Heathrow to Colombia’s El Dorado International Airport will now have a choice of seven departures a week up from four.
Seven people have died following a light aircraft crash in the Dominican Republic, with the dead believed to include the pilot and six tourists. The single-engine Piper PA-32 came down shortly after take-off from Punta Cana Airport on route to Arroyo Barril Airport, Samana.
Malaysia Airlines will be undertaking a network rationalisation exercise as part of the national carrier’s 12-point Recovery Plan outlined by Khazanah Nasional last year. Government controlled Khazanah Nasional took control of the airline following the loss of two Malaysian Airlines planes in 2014. The revised network plan is in line with MAS’ overall strategy to…
Air France has invested €50 million into redesigning its new medium-haul Business and Economy cabins. The cabins will be fitted in 24 Airbus A319 aircrafts in the first half of 2015 and in 25 Airbus A320 in the first half of 2016, totalling 7,800 new seats altogether.
Budapest Airport has begun work on the brand-new hangar for Wizz Air, which commences operation of its maintenance base in Budapest from September this year. The general contractor of the new hangar construction is Market Építő Zrt. Heavy machines once again started to roar at Ferenc Liszt Airport on Friday 17 April, between the two…
United Airlines is set to add a seventh airport to its UK network this summer with the launch of seasonal nonstop service between Newcastle and its New York hub, Newark Liberty International Airport.
London: Emirates will seek to extend the historic partnership it launched with Australia’s national airline, Qantas, in 2013 beyond the initial five year period, airline President Tim Clark said in an interview in London on Friday.
It seems that joking about messing with the security systems on a United Airlines flight might be asking for more trouble than you imagine. Earlier this week, computer security researcher Chris Roberts was removed from a United flight by the FBI. His transgression was to have tweeted: “Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM,…
Emirates Airline is asking the U.S. government to release all materials the Partnership for Fair & Open Skies, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines have submitted to make their case that the three Gulf carriers benefit from illegal subsidies.
