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Singapore Airlines ramp up East & South East Asia network, increase A380 services to Australia

Singapore Airlines will boost frequencies to destinations across East Asia and South East Asia, resume flights to Busan, and increase Airbus A380 services to Australia during the Northern Summer operating season (26 March to 29 October 2023), supporting the strong projected demand to these destinati...

Exciting new gaming lounge opens at Dubai International Airport

Dubai International (DXB) is now home to the region’s first airport gaming lounge concept with the opening of Game Space on 21st November 2022. The unique space is set to further enhance travellers’ experience at the world’s busiest international airport. Offering a novel...


Transforming passenger experience & optimizing operations - SITA at Geneva Airport

Passengers traveling from Geneva Airport can now breeze through self-service touchpoints at check-in, bag drop, and security thanks to digital passenger processing technology from SITA. The new touchpoints are helping to reduce wait times and provide more flexibility to passengers increasingly seeking digital travel solutions.  Passengers and staff will also soon further benefit from boost...

JetBlue adding service to Paris - new style of low-fares, great service to Europe most visited city

JetBlue plans to expand transatlantic flying into Continental Europe with new service to Paris starting next summer. Paris will be JetBlue’s second transatlantic destination following the airline’s successful launch of service to London in August 2021, where it has quickly grown its schedule to five daily flights between the United States and the...

Direct passenger traffic at Riga Airport exceeds 90% of pre-pandemic figures in October

Preliminary data on Airport performance show that this October, Riga Airport handled 551 thousand passengers, with the number of direct passengers exceeding 90 % of the pre-pandemic figures. This year, the Airport has already handled almost 4.5 million passengers, and passenger growth trends continue to be positive. Since June, the number of passengers handled at the Airport has bee...

EVA Air links Taiwan and Munich four times a week

Taiwanese airline EVA Air is heading to Germany for the first time, offering four flights a week from Taipei to Munich. Flights to the Taiwanese metropolis will leave from Munich on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. A modern Dreamliner – the long-haul aircraft Boeing 787-9 – will be used. The first flight was operated by a Boeing 777 with a special "Hello Kitty"...

ZeroAvia & AGS Airports to bring zero-emission flights to Scotland

ZeroAvia announced an agreement with AGS Airports to explore the development  of hydrogen fuel infrastructure, regulatory framework requirements and resourcing required for delivering zero-emission flights from Aberdeen and Glasgow airports. The team at AGS, which owns and operates Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports, will work closely with ZeroAvia’s specialist airport...

Riga Airport winter flight schedule offers direct flights to Africa

With the transition to wintertime this weekend, from 30 October, the list of autumn/winter flights will take effect at Riga Airport, offering passengers more than 70 direct destinations, including regular flights to Gran Canaria and Marrakesh on the African continent.  The list of winter flights from Riga currently includes 74 regular and charter flight routes, which will be operated by...

Artemis Aerospace explores six of the world's most beautiful runways

It is estimated there are more than 41,000 airports in the world. While it would be impossible to visit them all, component supply specialist Artemis Aerospace ranks their top six must-see runways. The only runway in the world where scheduled flights use a tidal beach for take-off and landing, Barra Airport in the Outer Hebrides is as unique as it is spectacular. Surrounded by rolli...

El Dorado Airport gets an efficiency boost with SITA solutions

To drive operational improvements while reducing emissions, El Dorado International Airport (BOG) will become the first airport in Latin America to adopt Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM), leveraging SITA Collaborative Decision Making modules. The technology will minimize disruptions and improve runway and air traffic flow management through increased stakeholder co...

Munich Airport offers passengers around 160 destinations worldwide in the winter season

By the end of October, the new winter flight schedule at Munich Airport will come into effect. It will be valid from Sunday, October 30, 2022, until Saturday, March 25, 2023. During the winter flight schedule period, passengers traveling from Munich can choose from a total of 157 destinations – 14 in Germany, 107 in Europe, and 36 long-haul destinations.From the start of the new schedule, th...

Home-to-airport transportation to customers - Delta partners with Joby Aviation

Delta Air Lines is embarking on a multi-year, multi-market commercial and operational partnership with Joby Aviation to deliver transformational, sustainable home-to-airport transportation service to Delta customers, beginning in New York and Los Angeles. As part of the first-of-its-kind arrangement, the companies will work together to integrate a Joby-operated service into Delta’s...

First Italian vertiport deployed at Fiumicino Airport

Aeroporti di Roma, Atlantia, UrbanV, and Volocopter, have successfully completed the first crewed eVTOL test flights in Italian airspace. These tests were part of a mobility ecosystem setup at Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. This is a key milestone toward the envisioned rollout of advanced air mobility services in Rome by 2024, with the partners having initiated o...

Air Tahiti Nui commences new non-stop service from Seattle to Tahiti with inaugural flight

Air Tahiti Nui announces the debut of its first non-stop service connecting Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Papeete, Tahiti (PPT) with its inaugural flight and arrival to SEA Airport. In a new partnership with Alaska Airlines, Air Tahiti Nui becomes the first and only carrier offering direct flights connecting the South Pacific and the Pacific Northwest. Air Tahiti Nui wil...

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