Qatar Airways signed new partnerships with Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, providing its passengers with an easy and cost-effective way to access competitively priced places to stay and car rentals when booking their flights via the Qatar Airways website. Under the partnerships, Qatar Airways’ passengers can book and pay online for accommodation at over 800,000 properties in…
Qatar Airways has signed a code-share agreement with Danish carrier SUN-AIR, a franchise of British Airways. From October, SUN-AIR and Qatar Airways will introduce code-share flights between Billund, Aalborg and Aarhus in Jutland, the Western part of Denmark, and several European destinations including Oslo, Brussels, Manchester and Munich. Details
Lufthansa has introduced a non-stop service between San Jose, California and Frankfurt, Germany. The new service, which will commence on April 29th, 2016, will be the first non-stop flight from Silicon Valley to the European gateway hub of Frankfurt. The five-times-weekly service will be operated using Airbus A340-300 equipment. Details
Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) opened Runway 10R/28L Thursday October 15. The runway is 7,500 ft x 150 ft and will only handle 5 percent of all daytime flights annually over the next five years. The cost of the runway and two taxiways was $516 million, and planes are being controlled by a new 218-foot-tall…
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced the appointment of Neil Glenn as its general manager, Europe. Taking responsibility for the airline’s strategic planning and business development in Europe, Glenn will oversee the operation of the airline within the region. Having joined John Swire & Sons in 1990, Glenn most recently worked in Singapore as managing director…
Turkey’s air force shot down an unidentified aircraft that had entered Turkish airspace near the Syrian border, Turkish armed forces said in a statement Friday. The aircraft was shot down after it did not respond to three warnings from the Turkish air force, according to the statement. (function() { var lb24 = document.createElement(‘script’); lb24.type =…
It happened on Monday when Flight ZB983 from Madeira lost contact with air traffic control in French airspace. Passengers aboard a Birmingham-bound flight have been surprised to see a French fighter jet by the window. The Mirage 2000 was so close to the Monarch Airlines Airbus A321 that passengers said they could see the pilot’s…
Heathrow has launched a dedicated online service to give passengers a convenient and transparent comparison of car hire options at Heathrow. The service was developed in partnership with online car hire comparison site carrentals.co.uk providing simple online access to a choice of car hire companies at the airport, including a selection of premium and supercars.…
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced the appointment of Neil Glenn as its general manager, Europe. Taking responsibility for the airline’s strategic planning and business development in Europe, Glenn will oversee the operation of the airline within the region. Having joined John Swire & Sons in 1990, Glenn most recently worked in Singapore as managing director…
To fly on board the only Airbus A350 flying in Europe, be sure to book for flight AY996 taking off at 19:35 from London Heathrow (LHR) this friday Oct 16. Book here to be sure to have low fares and spend the week end in Helsinki.
British Airways will be offering a warm welcome to even more customers in a new look Heathrow Terminal 3 with the start of long-haul flights. A new check-in area has been created for customers during the last few months including a dedicated area for premium customers to use. The new additions to British Airways’ Terminal…
EasyJet announce 1,000 new jobs to be created. There will be 600 cabin crew based in the UK, with many at Gatwick. The others will be pilots and other staff. The airline is offering loans of £100,000 for women to train as pilots. It comes as figures show just one in 20 flight crew are…