After San Francisco, Air India (AI) plans to launch direct flights to Washington DC and other cities in the U.S. AI already operates non-stop flights to three U.S. cities - New York, Chicago and Newark, with operations to San Francisco scheduled to commence from December 2. "AI is ac...
American Airlines Group Inc. will keep the right to fly between Los Angeles and Tokyo's Haneda airport, after federal regulators rejected claims by Delta Air Lines Inc. that the privilege should be revoked because American failed to begin service quickly enough. American has until March...
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (XIY) welcomed its 30 millionth passenger after a passenger on a China Eastern Airlines (MU) flight arrived at the airport at 9:35 a.m. Friday morning, marking a new milestone for the airport. Xi'an airport has become the eighth airport in China with 30 million passengers annually. Zhang Wei, who took Flight MU2335 from Shanghai to Xi'an, luckily...
The Cochin International Airport, the first airport in the world to operate completely on solar power, will double its capacity from present 13.1 MW. A decision in this regard was taken at director board meeting of the CIAL chaired by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here today. Foreseeing that the power usage in the airport will be doubled with the completion of the new international termi...
Passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport will be greeted by Spencer, a robot to help them navigate around the busy international terminals, from Monday morning. Initiated by Dutch airline KLM to decrease the number of missed flights due to passengers getting lost, Spencer was built by university and corporate researchers from five different European countries, including Germany, Fran...
Travellers are now much closer to a door-to-door experience as Amadeus Selling Platform’s latest module enables travel agents to sell airport express tickets as they book a flight or hotel. Heathrow Express is the first to launch this tool with Airtrain in Brisbane to follow in 2016. For many travellers, arriving at a destination airport is the easy part - working out how to get to the...
More than 60 pre-commencement conditions attached to the planning permission for a runway extension at London Ashford Airport have been successfully discharged and work to lengthen the runway will begin early in the New Year. An upbeat assessment of the multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Kent airport was presented to the newly-formed Lydd Airport Consultative Committee when they met on Nove...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued its 2016 subsidy policy for 152 small civilian airports, which will receive subsidies amounting to 1.31 billion yuan next year, according to an announcement released on CAAC's website on Thursday. According to the announcement, 152 small airports are among the beneficiaries and each will get a subsidy ranging from 1.11 million yua...
Just when we thought it was safe to travel again and proceed with normal flight bookings, volcanic ash spewed from Lombok's Mt. Barujari (Rinjani) has got some flights cancelled again after being quiet for the past couple weeks. Both Virgin Australia and Jetstar have announced cancellations on their websites. Virgin cancelled all flights in and out of Bali and a 9:00 a.m. flight this mor...
France's provincial cities reckon they're being held back by an airport system that focuses two-thirds of passenger traffic on Paris and denies them long-haul routes. Their claims are about to be put to the test. The governm'ent is gearing up to sell 60 percent stakes in Nice-Cote d'Azur and Lyon airports, France's third and fourth largest, after disposing of Toulouse-B...
Activists opposed to the expansion of London's Heathrow Airport blocked an approach tunnel on Thursday by chaining themselves to a parked vehicle, bringing traffic chaos to Europe's busiest airport. Police said they had arrested five people and removed three vehicles from the tunnel, used by cars and taxis to access three of Heathrow's five terminals. Heathrow could be given...
Gorno-Altaisk’s airport on Wednesday lodged a suit to a sum of 1.07 million roubles (16,304 U.S. dollars) against bankrupt Transaero air company, according to materials published on the website of the St. Petersburg Court of Arbitration on Thursday. No further details are available. Transaero’s aggregate debts to creditors, along with leasing, are 250 billion roubles, or 3.8 bill...
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Air France (AF, Paris CDG) and Aigle Azur (ZI, Paris Orly) have resumed scheduled services to Bamako following an Islamist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel last week which killed twenty-two people including six Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) crew that had been staying there. Speaking to The Telegraph, a Malian hotel source, who was present when the attack occurred, said the gunm...
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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...
