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Qatar Airways To Fly Non-Stop Between Doha And Mozambique Three Times Weekly

Airport Koltsovo (Ekaterinburg) – a new point on the map of Aerofuels refueling complexes in Russia

In January this year the Group of Companies Aerofuels subsidiary started refueling the Russian and international airlines flights in the airport of Koltsovo (Ekaterinburg). To make into-plane refueling Aerofuels uses its own jet fuel and modern certified refuellers. At the same time the customers...

Australian airports rank highly in on-time performance: report

Adelaide maintained its position as the Australian airport with the highest percentage of on-time arrivals and departures in 2015, while Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne all improved their performance compared with the previous year, figures from flight data and aviation consultancy OAG show. The O...

Airports of Serbia - ready to start

Ready to start - Airport of Serbia Ltd is launching during first two weeks of February. The main task of "Airports of Serbia" - to manage, develop and maintain airports infrastructure in Serbia. That means finding solutions for the use of already existing major military and mixed airports in Serbia for passenger and cargo transportation. But also construction of new airports and sm...

Etihad to open ‘spectacular’ new first class lounge at Abu Dhabi airport

Etihad Airways said it will open a “spectacular” new first class lounge at Abu Dhabi International Airport in May, as it continues to evolve its offering for premium travellers. The lounge will be located at Terminal 3 and will be for the exclusive use of First Class guests, Etihad Guest Platinum and Etihad Airways Partners Platinum guests, and those staying in The Residence onboard...

Swede becomes first person to board a plane with just a wave of his hand

Andreas Sjostrom boarded a flight from Stockholm to Paris in December without a boarding pass or even his phone. As throngs of weary travellers streamed through one of Europe’s busiest travel hubs, the female security guard at Stockholm Arlanda Airport looked up at Andreas Sjostrom, confused. Somehow, without a boarding pass or even a smartphone, Sjostrom had managed to activate her sc...

Dubai International Airport retains position as world’s busiest

Dubai International kept its position as the world’s busiest airport for international passengers for the second year, after traffic exceeded 78 million in 2015. Aided by 100 airlines that connect the airport to 240 destinations around the world, the airport traffic increased by 10.7 per cent in 2015 over the 70.4 million recorded in 2014. In December alone, passenger numbers reached 7...

Tigerair counts down to new Bali service

Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp says events such as the volcanic ash cloud and Jakarta terrorist attacks have not dampened demand for the low-cost carrier’s proposed Bali flights due to kick off in March. The Virgin Australia-owned airline has completed the reconfiguration and repainting of the first of three Boeing 737-800s, VH-VUB, that will be used to operate Ade...

Passenger numbers at Abu Dhabi airport up 17% on the year

Passenger numbers at Abu Dhabi International Airport rose by 17.2 per cent in 2015, with more than 23 million travellers passing through its terminals during the past year. Much of the increase was thanks to the concurrent growth of Etihad Airways which carried 17.4 million passengers in 2015, up 18.4 per cent on the previous year. The airline was responsible for nearly three-quart...

Review: Plaza Premium Lounge London Heathrow Airport Terminal 4

Before arriving at the airport I had taken a look at which Priority Pass lounges are available in Terminal 4, and noticed there was a fairly new Plaza Premium Lounge, which seems to be well regarded. Since this lounge was right across the hallway from the Air India Lounge, I figured I’d check it out. The lounge is open daily from 5AM until 10:30PM. Again, the Plaza Premium Lounge is locat...

Air Malta to fly to/from 30 destinations this summer

Air Malta is planning an enhanced summer 2016 flight schedule that will see improved flight timings on Manchester, Catania, Vienna, Lyon and Marseille and increased frequency on Berlin. The Maltese airline will continue being the largest operator to London and the UK by offering a selection of 30 weekly flights to seven airports. With this schedule, running from the 27th March till 29th October, A...

Aigle Azur launches 2 new destinations from Lyon: Porto and Dakar

After 10 years of presence in Portugal (Aigle Azur’s second most important destination after Algeria), as well as an increasing number of flights to Lisbon and direct services to Porto, Faro and Funchal all year-round from Paris-Orly, the company is now proposing a new airlink between Lyons and Porto on a thrice-weekly basis, every Thursday, Friday and Sunday, from 27 March. The company a...

Passenger has entire plane to himself on Philippines Airlines flight

'You can sit anywhere, because you’re the only passenger', the man was told on his flight from Manila to Boracay. Most people hold their breath for an empty seat next to them on the aeroplane. One man had only empty seats however, when he was the sole passenger on a domestic Philippines Airlines flight from Manila to beach island Boracay. Austrian travel blogger Alex Si...

Major airlines suspend Vanuatu flights over airport runway concerns

Vanuatu’s tourism industry is again under threat after three major airlines suspended flights to the archipelago because of the capital’s deteriorating runway. Over the past week Qantas, Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia have suspended flights and code shares to Port Vila over concerns of the condition of the Bauerfield International Airport strip. Virgin Australia said it wou...

The non-stop service to Auckland will be operated by a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft

Emirates announced that it will start its first non-stop service from Dubai to Auckland on 1 March 2016, bringing many of its 38 European destinations and cities within just one-stop range of New Zealand through direct connections in Dubai. The new service will be in addition to the award-winning airline’s existing flights, meaning that Emirates will then have five services daily into New...

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