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Kuwait Airways to order 10 Airbus A350-900s and 15 A320neos
Kuwait Airways (Kuwait City) is planning to order 10 Airbus A350-900s and 15 A320neo aircraft according to this report by Reuters. Read the full report: CLICK HERE Copyright Photo: Paul Denton. The...
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Monarch Airlines to launch East Midlands-Ibiza flights tomorrow, explains how...
Monarch Airlines (London-Luton) is launching two new routes from East Midlands. On May 7 the airline launched its first ever scheduled flight to Malta from East Midlands Airport. The flights will...
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Jet2 celebrates the first flight to Reus, Spain from Belfast
Jet2 (Jet2.com) (Leeds/Bradford) yesterday (May 27) launched a new route from Belfast to Reus, Spain (near Barcelona). The airline issued this statement and publicity photo: Latino beauty Juliana...
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Emirates launches a new route to Tokyo Haneda today
Emirates (Dubai) today (June 3) celebrated the start of its daily, nonstop service from Dubai to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) with the launch of its inaugural flight. Haneda is the company’s...
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Scandinavian Airlines changes its cabin service strategy for Europe
Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) is planing to introduce SAS Go and SAS Plus on June 9. The new services will replace SAS’s Business Class, Economy Extra and Economy Class. The airline issued...
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Swiss to add six new routes from Geneva this fall
Swiss International Air Lines (Zurich) will be adding six further destinations to its Geneva-based network this fall: Stockholm (served four times weekly), Oslo (three flights weekly), London Gatwick...
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Despite the protests of founder Stelios Haji-Iannou, easyJet finalizes its...
EasyJet (easyJet.com) (UK) (London-Luton) has firmed up the purchase of 135 Airbus A320 family aircraft (100 A320neos and 35 A320ceos). The initial agreement was announced earlier in June. Founder Sir...
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Jet2 adds weekly East Midlands-Gran Canaria flights
Jet2 (Jet2.com) (East Midlands) on July 15 added weekly service between its East Midlands base and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. Jet2 now serves Gran Canaria from Glasgow, Manchester,...
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AirEuropa to launch two new routes to Germany from Madrid
AirEuropa (Palma de Mallorca and Madrid) on March 31, 2014 will launch two new routes from Madrid to both Frankfurt and Munich per Airline Route. The new routes will be operated daily with Embraer...
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Etihad Airways’ equity alliance strategy, is Alitalia the next partner?
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) has no intention of joining one of the traditional airline alliances. Instead it is quickly building an alliance of aligned airlines in which its has an equity share. The...
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EasyJet to expand operations in Hamburg and Berlin
EasyJet (UK) (easyJet.com) (London-Luton) has announced that it will open a base in Hamburg as well as increasing its fleet in Berlin in the Spring of 2014. The announcement was made by chief...
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Alitalia is thrown a lifeline, will continue to fly (for now)
Alitalia (2nd) (Rome) received good news yesterday (October 11) when its board of directors (including Air France-KLM) approved a capital increase as part of the Italian government’s sponsored 500...
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EasyJet to start Berlin Schoenefeld-Tel Aviv service on February 4, pilots in...
EasyJet (easyJet.com) (UK) (London-Luton) will launch a new route connecting Berlin (Schoenefeld) and Tel Aviv starting on February 4, 2014 per Airline Route. Meanwhile pilots in France staged a...
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Aer Lingus threatens to go to court if the SIPTU union strikes
Aer Lingus (Dublin) is threatening legal action if the SIPTU union goes ahead with its strike plans against the carrier according to the Irish Times. The union is unhappy with the shortage in the...
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easyJet to start Milan Malpensa-Tel Aviv flights
EasyJet (UK) (London-Luton) has announced its plans to connect Milan with Tel Aviv in Israel. The airline, which already flies to Tel Aviv from London Gatwick, Manchester and London Luton, will start...
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Reuters: Alitalia could ask for more money
Alitalia (2nd) (Rome), according to this report by Reuters, will seek additional funding from the banks. The debt-filled airline could also be forced to seek another shareholder infusion if the...
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EasyJet to launch five new routes from Rome Fiumicino, adding more pricing...
EasyJet (easyJet.com) (London-Luton) has announced it will launch five new routes from Rome Fiumicino. The five new routes are year-round services to Montpellier, Thessaloniki and Belgrade along with...
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Brussels Airlines announces a major European expansion with nine new...
Brussels Airlines‘ (Brussels) CEO Bernard Gustin revealed the new commercial strategy of Brussels Airlines. In recent months, the airline has been working hard on the improvement of its productivity...
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Norwegian’s passenger traffic increases by 24% in January to 1.5 million...
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s (Norwegian Long Haul) (Norwegian.com) (Oslo) traffic is exploding. The fast-growing carrier reported its traffic grew by 24 percent in January 2014 to over 1.5 million...
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Algerian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules with 99 passengers and four crew...
Algerian Air Force (Algiers) Lockheed C-130H Hercules (believed to be the pictured 7T-WHM) crashed today (February 11) in the mountains of eastern Algeria, killing the 99 passengers and four crew...
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