Beijing and Haikou based Hainan Airlines will be adding more flights from Seattle Tacoma International Airport to China. The quickly growing airline will add a new route from Seattle to Shanghai from the 22nd June. The new route will be operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with a two class Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The…
As Milano Expo 2015 prepares to open its doors to an expected 20 million visitors, Oman Air has been named as the event’s Preferred Authorised Reseller for the Sultanate of Oman. The Omani national airline offers tickets for sale and details of how they can be purchased has been published. EXPO Milano 2015 takes place…
Qatar Airways has extended its Boeing 787 Dreamliner route network to Tunisia with the launch of services to capital city Tunis. The increase in demand in the region and the airline’s steadfast commitment to the Tunisian market has resulted in the introduction of the state-of-the-art Dreamliner on the daily flights between Doha and Tunis. The…
The Special Operations Command Africa is conducting market research to identify companies having an interest in, and the resources to support, an emerging requirement for mobile fixed wing air transport services to move personnel and cargo within the northern regions of Africa and surrounding countries. Link
Spirit Airlines has announced it will launch services in 2015 linking Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport with nine more U.S. cities, along with new routes from Los Angeles International Airport to Baltimore and Kansas City. Link
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-ENW performing flight FR-8506 from Gdansk (Poland) to Rygge (Norway), was accelerating for takeoff from Gdansk’s runway 11 at about 17:35L (16:35Z) when the crew rejected takeoff at about 70 knots due to an engine (CFM56) ingesting a number of birds. Link
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-ENW performing flight FR-8506 from Gdansk (Poland) to Rygge (Norway), was accelerating for takeoff from Gdansk’s runway 11 at about 17:35L (16:35Z) when the crew rejected takeoff at about 70 knots due to an engine (CFM56) ingesting a number of birds. Link
Frontier Airlines has announced it will launch service in the spring of 2015 from Austin to Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Las Vegas. Link
A Predator B drone has successfully completed tests with so-called sense-and-avoid radar, bringing it a step closer to legal operation in US and international airspace. You may be thinking, “haven’t they already operated extensively in places like Iraq?” Yes, but in the US and other nations where skies are packed with traffic, drones are forbidden…
DETROIT • Delta Air Lines is passing along profits to its employees, but consumers shouldn’t expect the company to pass along savings gleaned from low oil prices any time soon. Link