Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest airline, has increased frequency on the Lagos to Douala via Cotonou route from four to six weekly flights. The new schedule is aimed at further enhancing connectivity in the West Coast. The flights from Lagos to Douala via Cotonou and back will operate on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays,…
Demand at Heathrow has continued to grow, with traffic up 2.3 per cent to a record 56.9 million passengers. Service quality was also ahead of other European hubs during a record summer, with five separate days where Heathrow welcomed over a quarter of a million passengers per day. Details
Nexmo, the leading cloud communications platform company, today announced its Chat App API is empowering KLM to engage with Chinese customers on WeChat, the leading social communication platform, through Salesforce Service Cloud. KLM Royal Dutch airlines is now able to process and handle user inquiries from Chinese customers on WeChat more efficiently based on previous…
The Singapore carrier is to send the A350 to Brazil next year, this includes a stop in Barcelona Spain. The flight is currently operated on a B777-300ER. This news comes as LATAM announce they are increasing service from Barcelona to Sao Paulo to daily. Singapore Airlines already has plans to send the A350 to Amsterdam…
Scoot is increasing its coverage to the Middle East. It plans to launch 3 weekly service to Jeddah from Singapore. The 787 will begin from 1st May replacing Singapore Airlines service to Jeddah via Dubai. As a result, the Dubai stop over is removed and overall Singapore Airlines service to Dubai is reduced from 10 weekly to daily.…
BA is launching 3 new summer services from Heathrow next year: begins 29 April until 24 September London Heathrow to Mahon (Menorca): BA494: departs LHR at 16:10 and arrives MAH at 19:30 (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat) BA495: departs MAH at 20:20 and arrives LHR at 21:45 (Mon, Fri, Sat) BA495: departs MAH at 20:25 and…
British Airways is to launch a new service to Denmark. The airline has previously flown to Billund before. This will be their second destination in Denmark, BA currently flies to Copenhagen. The new service begins on 3rd May 2016: BA804 departs Heathrow at 07:45 and arrives in Billund at 10:25 (daily) BA805 departs Billund at…
Garuda Indonesia has booked a net income of $51.4 million through the third quarter 2015, an increase of 123.4 per cent compared to the same period last year when it incurred a loss of $220.1 million. Garuda Indonesia president Arif Wibowo said in Jakarta the company also increased total revenue from $2.83 billion through the…
flydubai’s inaugural flight has arrived in the capital city of Eritrea, Asmara. Ghaith Al Ghaith, flydubai chief executive Officer said: “The addition of Asmara to our network reflects our commitment to enhancing air connectivity to Dubai which includes 67 points that did not previously have direct air links to Dubai or were underserved.” Details
All the road, rail and helicopter services that Lufthansa UK passengers can take advantage of when using Frankfurt and Munich airports are to be operated under a single Lufthansa Express brand name. Be it with high-speed ICE trains, modern long-distance buses, limousines or helicopter services, Lufthansa and its various transport partners offer customers a wide…
The National Basketball Association and IMG gave signed a multiyear agreement to broadcast live NBA games on Sport 24, the only 24/7 sports channel available inflight. The new partnership will include more than 100 live regular-season, playoff and Finals games each season on inflight channel Sport 24. The IMG-owned and produced channel is available on…