From the 30th March, British Airways will begin operation on the Boeing 777-300ER to the London Heathrow – Dallas route, while replacing the Boeing 747. The 777-300ER is scheduled at the moment to operate during the Summer season, which results in minor changed to number of Business and Premium Economy Class seats being offered. The…
British Airways from the 29th March is expanding its service to Cyprus, it is introducing a morning departure (from Heathrow) to Larnaca with an Airbus A320. The overall service will be increasing from 7 to 13 weekly. The new route will operate as follows; BA664 departs Heathrow at 0710 and arrives to Larnaca at 1400…
Alitalia today has announced that during the month of August 2015, it plans to introduce a limited service from Milan Linate, with an addition of 10 new routes. Milan Linate – Bordeaux 04AUG15 – 27AUG15 2 weekly A319Milan Linate – Corfu 07AUG15 – 28AUG15 1 weekly A319Milan Linate – Dubrovnik …
United Airlines has today added more flights for American Football fans on top of regularly scheduled service to Phoenix from its hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark and San Francisco. The airline also has added a new special non stop service, from 29th January to the 2nd February from Boston and Seattle to…
The Indonesian transport minister has suggest AirAsia flight QZ8501 may have climbed too fast before it crashed into the Java Sea. Addressing a parliamentary hearing in Indonesian capital Jakarta, Ignasius Jonan said the plane was climbing at a rate of 6,000ft per minute – beyond the capabilities of most fighter jets.
NATS, the provider of en route air traffic services in the UK, recorded a 2.2 per cent increase in 2014 traffic volumes when compared to the previous year. Last year saw 2,200,804 flights, up from 2,153,995 in 2013. In December 2014 alone, NATS handled 158,106 flights, which was an increase of 3.8 per cent when…
Seemingly interminable wrangling over the future of aviation capacity in the UK hit a new low earlier, with a second county council withdrawing support from the proposed expansion of London Gatwick Airport. Bowing to pressure from local residents, West Sussex Council voted by 37 to 26 to reverse a decision taken in July 2014 to…
Swiss International Air Lines’ annual passenger numbers exceeded 16 million for the first time last year. All in all, some 16,169,411 passengers were transported, a 1.3 per cent increase on the 15,968,833 of 2013. The result was achieved with 1.6 per cent fewer flights, too: 144,116, compared to the 146,436 of the previous year.
An expanded Gatwick would be the world’s most efficient two-runway airport – flexible and responsive to meet the changing needs of passengers and airlines – as new images and an animation produced by Sir Terry Farrell released today show.
Passengers on board two Delta flights at Kennedy Airport were taken off each of the aircrafts Monday night as authorities investigated a bomb threat that turned out to be unfounded, officials say. An anonymous phone call was placed to Delta headquarters just after 6 p.m. suggesting a pipe bomb was on Delta Flight 468, according to…