LATAM Airlines Group and its subsidiaries, the leading airline group in Latin America, have reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for March 2015 compared to March 2014. System passenger traffic decreased by 0.5 per cent while capacity increased by 1.3 per cent. As a result, the company’s load factor for the month decreased 1.4 points…
Stansted Airport welcomed nearly one million more passengers in the first three months of 2015 over the same period last year as annual passenger numbers at the UK’s fastest growing airport increased by 16.3 per cent. The airport served over 20.9 million passengers in the 12 months ending March 2015. During March, the airport saw…
Korean Air has announced that as from April 26th it will resume its service between Incheon and Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg. The service will operate three flights a week, utilising A330-200 aircraft equipped with AVOD in all seats and seating up to 218 passengers.
LATAM Airlines Group and its subsidiaries, the leading airline group in Latin America, have reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for March 2015 compared to March 2014. System passenger traffic decreased by 0.5 per cent while capacity increased by 1.3 per cent. As a result, the company’s load factor for the month decreased 1.4 points…
Panama president Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez and United States president Barack Obama have witnessed a historic agreement in which Copa Airlines and Boeing announced an order for 61 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 airplanes. The order, valued at $6.6 billion at list prices, is the largest commercial transaction ever between a Panamanian and a…
Singapore Airlines has unveiled its brand new SilverKris Lounge at Heathrow, following the airline’s recent move into Heathrow’s Terminal 2.
The UN agency responsible for overseeing international aviation has set up a prototype repository for conflict zone risk information in the wake of last year’s destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 leaving Schiphol on July 17 last year. (AFP) The International Civil Aviation Organisation website will allow governments, airlines and the public…
Vancouver Airport Authority was notified that Carson Air Flight 66 departing from Vancouver International Airport (YVR) at 06:43 this morning for Prince George Airport (YXS) has lost contact with NavCanada’s Kamloops Flight Information Centre. Carson Air Flight 66 is a cargo flight using a Metro II aircraft with two people on board. Carson Air cargo…
Hobart’s airport website has been offline today after being taken over by pro-Islamic State hackers who published messages supporting the jihadist group. Hobart International Airport, whose website has been taken over by pro-Islamic State hackers. (News Corp Australia) Police said hackers appeared to have targeted the web host used by the Hobart International Airport in…
Air Seychelles and Air France have signed a memorandum of understanding, heralding a new era of commercial cooperation between the two carriers. The agreement was signed at a meeting in Aix en Provence in France between Joël Morgan, Seychelles minister of foreign affairs and transport and chairman of Air Seychelles, and Frédéric Gagey, chairman of…
Panama president Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez and United States president Barack Obama have witnessed a historic agreement in which Copa Airlines and Boeing announced an order for 61 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 airplanes. The order, valued at $6.6 billion at list prices, is the largest commercial transaction ever between a Panamanian and a…
Panama president Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez and United States president Barack Obama have witnessed a historic agreement in which Copa Airlines and Boeing announced an order for 61 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 airplanes. The order, valued at $6.6 billion at list prices, is the largest commercial transaction ever between a Panamanian and a…