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Air Canada Unveils Major Expansion to 12 U.S. Destinations

Air Canada announced today new non-stop services between four key Canadian hubs and 12 U.S. cities beginning next summer. The new transborder routes will introduce new destinations, such as Toronto-Washington-Dulles, Toronto-Salt Lake City and Vancouver-San Jose, while also creating new city-pair ro...

Chinese Flight Deal with Queensland to Bring Another 36,500 Visitors a Year

The government has claimed a tourism victory, with an agreement signed with a Chinese airline set to bring another 36,500 travellers to the state annually from late next year. Tourism Minister Kate Jones secured a memorandum of understanding with China Eastern Airlines on Wednesday night, fo...

A contract to expand

Since its formation in 1993, Airports Company South Africa has grown into a widely admired airport management company. Keith Mwanalushi reports from Johannesburg that growth in Africa is high on the company's agenda. Although Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is majority- owned by the South African Government through the Department of Transport, the company is legally and financiall...

China Eastern to begin year-round Shanghai-Brisbane service from Nov 2016

China Eastern will operate year-round flights between Brisbane and its Shanghai hub from November 2016. While the Skyteam member has already committed to serving the Queensland capital over January and February 2016 as a seasonal service, November will mark the start of the airline’s permanent presence on the Brisbane-Shanghai route. Brisbane Airport chief executive Julieanne Alroe sai...

Ukraine International Airlines launches flights to Aktau

Ukraine International Airlines will operate its first non-stop scheduled flight connecting Kiev and Aktau, Kazakhstan. Aktau will become the third destination connecting Ukraine and Kazakhstan, after Astana and Almaty. UIA offers double-weekly flights connecting Kiev and Aktau operated on modern Boeing 737 aircraft with two cabin classes – Business Class and Economy Class. The outbou...

Pegasus’ newest destination: Makhachkala

Turkey’s leading low cost airline, Pegasus, has now added Makhachkala, the largest city in the Northern Caucasus, to its flight network. With the addition of Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan, a Republic of the Russian Federation, Pegasus has increased its number of destinations in Russia to five and the total number in its network to 103. Operating four times weekly sched...

Copenhagen airport terminal evacuated over suspicious bag

Copenhagen Airport's Terminal 3 has been evacuated after suspicious bag was found Flights departures have been moved to other terminals, a spokeswoman from the airport told Reuters. The Copenhagen Metro said on its web page that the airport's metro station cannot be used. Copenhagen Police said in a tweet it has no further comments. The incident came just hours after Danish pol...

EU Clears HNA's Purchase Of Swissport

The European Commission has cleared the acquisition of the Swissport group of companies by China's HNA Group, a deal expected to help the Swiss ground handler broaden its reach into Europe. The Commission, the EU's executive which rules on antitrust issues, said that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns because the companies' activities do not overlap. It...

Gulf Air goes daily to Hyderabad

Gulf Air will increase its flights between Bahrain and Hyderabad from five weekly flights to daily flights from December 2, 2015 to meet high passenger demand. Catering to over 5 million Indian nationals residing in the Arabian Gulf region, Gulf Air has provided direct air services between India and Bahrain since 1960. With one of the largest Middle East networks, Bahrain’s national carri...

Mobile Phone Lighter Seized at South China Airport

An airport in Guangdong province has seized a China-made mobile phone with a built-in cigarette lighter, the first of such items, local media reported. Staff at Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport found a suspicious mobile phone when it went through an X-ray machine for a security check. Its outer part reveals no difference, but it has a small panel on the back behind which hides an...

Virgin adds more A330 flights to Fiji, boosts Tasman schedule

Virgin Australia is extending the use of its Airbus A330-200 widebodies on international routes, with services to Fiji from Melbourne and Brisbane to start in June 2016. The A330 began flying internationally in April when Virgin deployed the aircraft on the Sydney-Nadi route on Saturdays during busy travel periods. As with the Sydney service, A330 flights from Melbourne and Brisbane to Nadi...

Virgin CEO expects Bali to rebound after ash cloud clears

Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says he expects travel to Bali will rebound once the disruption from the ash cloud from the Mount Rinjani volcano clears up. Thousands of Australians have found themselves stranded in Bali in recent weeks, with both Virgin and Jetstar, as well as a number of other carriers, cancelling flights for safety reasons. While the backlog of passengers...

Air Niugini’s Second Service To Japan

Air Niugini will begin operating a second service to Narita, Japan from 06th July next year to support the National Government’s initiative to further develop and enhance tourism in the country, and the Papua New Guinea – Japan relationship. Air Niugini’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Simon Foo, announced this when receiving a cheque of K5million funding from the Acting Minister...

Gatwick Handles 40 Million Passengers For the First Time

Gatwick broke the 40 million passengers a year mark for the first time on the weekend of November 14/15. An airport statement said Gatwick is now “rapidly approaching full capacity” as it published its traffic data for October. Gatwick has highlighted that the Airports Commission report into the need for a new runway to serve South East England (published on July 1, 2015) said it woul...

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