A man's body was found at Paris’ Orly airport in the landing gear of an Air France plane that had flown in from Brazil, police and airport sources said. The corpse was discovered during maintenance operations on the Boeing 777 at Orly after flying in to Paris’ main internatio...
Singapore Airlines seems set to start Canberra’s first long-haul international services with a four times weekly service from its hub at Changi Airport, which will continue as a tag flight to the New Zealand capital Wellington. The SQ service, expected to be announced by Singapore Airlines chi...
Hong Kong Airlines operated its inaugural Hong-Kong-Gold Coast-Cairns-Hong Kong service on the weekend. The new thrice-weekly extended season of charter flights will operate through until March including the Chinese New Year period, the peak travel season for the Chinese market. The flights depart Hong Kong for the Gold Coast on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, returning to Hong Kong via...
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest by international traffic, experienced an 8.1 per cent increase in passenger numbers in November, its operator said on Monday. Traffic rose to 6.01 million passengers from 5.57m a year earlier, taking the total so far in 2015 to 70.96m, up 10.9 per cent. The largest increase in passengers came from the Indian subcontinent from where new f...
Qatar Airways has launched a first-of-its-kind Travel Festival offering travellers a choice of dream deals suited for a variety of travel needs. The Qatar Airways Travel Festival has something for everyone, with exclusively designed packages including discounts of up to 50 per cent, companion fares, family and group discounts, access to special discounts on car rental, hotel deals and...
Emirates has announced the expansion of its operation in Switzerland with the addition of a second daily service to Geneva effective June 1, 2016. The second daily flight will double capacity on the route and represents an overall increase of 26% for Emirates in Switzerland The new flight will be operated by a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in a three-class configuration, w...
L&T Oman, a unit of the Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro, has landed a contract to build a new passenger terminal at Sohar Airport. The company announced the award of a $93.1 million contract to build a new regional airport in the Sultanate last week, but did not name the location. However, it is understood to be for Sohar Airport, as it corresponds with an award recently made by Om...
Beijing has allowed Chinese citizens to begin using Taiwan as a transit point for onward international flights. Last week, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said passengers flying from Nanchang, Kunming Changshui and Chongqing would be allowed to transit through Taipei Taoyuan International Airport before flying on to a third destination. Reuters reports the two sides have been discussing...
WestJet celebrates the airline’s first flight from Alberta to Hawaii on its own Boeing 767-300 extended-range aircraft. To this point, flights to the Hawaiian Islands had been taking place on leased aircraft. “As we enter our 20th anniversary year, non-stop service from Alberta to Hawaii onboard our own wide-body aircraft is an exciting new chapter in the WestJet success story,&rdqu...
Hong Kong Airlines, an internationally-acclaimed full-service airline, will officially launch thrice-weekly flight service to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on February 27th. An all-economy class Airbus A320 aircraft will be deployed on the Phnom Penh route. The new service will further strengthen the airline’s network in Asia and offer more choices and greater convenience to passengers travell...
Bristol is the most punctual airport in the UK and the only British inclusion in the world’s top 20, new figures reveal. New rankings for 2015 placed the small West Country airport as the ninth most on-time small airport in the world, with 88.64 per cent of its flights arriving or departing within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. Aviation analyst OAG broke down its rankings into three...
Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen private jet airport expects cheaper oil to give the sector a boost. The airport is anticipating a rise in flights of about 7 per cent this year, helped by the tumbling oil price. Cheaper aviation fuel makes business jets more profitable to operate. While the plunge in oil prices has taken its toll on regional economies, private jet operators hope to benefit from i...
Wizz Air announced further growth of its low fare route network and launched three new services from Budapest to Liverpool and Reykjavik, commencing in March as well as a Budapest-Ibiza service commencing in June. With this announcement, Wizz Air is now expanding its Hungarian offer by connecting a 23rd country accessible with Wizz Air’s low fares – Iceland. Reykjavik is consid...
ASL Airlines France announces the launch of a new route between Bordeaux and Hamburg for the 2016 summer season. The second unprecedented route out of Bordeaux ASL Airlines France today announced the launch of its inaugural flight between Bordeaux and Hamburg, following its first route out of Bordeaux, which linked the city to Vienna. ‘With the success of its inaugural service to...
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Baltic Ground Services (BGS), a global provider of ground handling and aircraft fueling services, has initiated cooperation with Airest, taking over into‑plane fueling operations at Kaunas (KUN) and R...
