AirBridgeCargo starts operating direct service to Singapore

On September 3rd, AirBridgeCargo started serving Singapore cargo market with direct freighter service from Moscow. The flights will be operated twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays with Boeing 747 aircraft, with onward connection to Hong Kong and further to ABC’s global route network.  The new dedicated cargo services will facilitate the movement of cross-boundary … Read more

New Routes for airBaltic from Vilnius

This week, the Latvian airline airBaltic starts five new routes from Vilnius and improves its schedule of flights linking the Baltic region with Europe. Christophe Viatte, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic said: “airBaltic’s home market is Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The development in Lithuania is part of our strategy to operate 11 direct services out … Read more

Wizz Air thrives in Hungary

Wizz Air celebrated today the handover of the maintenance hangar built by Budapest Airport. The maintenance hangar represents an investment of almost €3 million and will help create over 70 additional jobs for skilled engineers. Wizz Air and Budapest Airport, signed a 15-year lease agreement for the newly built line maintenance hangar in June 2014. … Read more

Norwegian increases its long-haul fleet and acquires two new Dreamliners

Norwegian has signed an agreement to acquire an additional two new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, enabling the company to launch even more long-haul routes.   Both aircraft are scheduled to enter service in summer 2017. The 787-9 is larger than the eight 787-8s that Norwegian currently operates on its long-haul routes. With this new agreement, the … Read more

Finnair opens twelve new scheduled routes

Finnair is opening four new routes to Edinburgh, Billund, Pula and Svalbard for summer 2016.   Finnair will start flying to Edinburgh from 18 April to 27 October 2016. The Scottish capital is known for its medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with stunning gardens and neoclassical buildings. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe – … Read more

Icelandair announces Montreal service

Icelandair will begin a scheduled service from Reykjavik (KEF) to Montreal, Canada in May 2016 with easy connections from all 6 UK airports Icelandair fly from. Montreal will be Icelandair’s 5th gateway in Canada and 16th in North America. Flights will be operated four times weekly until November 2016, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. … Read more

SAS expands with new direct routes to USA

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments SAS is expanding and opening three new direct routes to USA in 2016. The new routes being launched are Los Angeles from Stockholm, Miami from Oslo and Miami from Copenhagen. SAS is also increasing the number of departures from Stockholm to New York and Chicago and between Copenhagen and … Read more

SAS appoints new Executive Vice President and CIO

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments SAS is expanding its Group Management – Mattias Forsberg to take up position as new Executive Vice President and CIO responsible for IT and digital innovation. The appointment of Mattias Forsberg in this new Group Management function reflects the focus at SAS on digital development of the Group’s business … Read more

Norwegian to start Boston service

Low-cost airline Norwegian has announced start of flights from London to Boston. New service will offer the only direct link between London Gatwick and Boston Logan – launching on 13 May 2016.  Norwegian is the only airline to offer UK passengers low-cost long haul flights to America and already serves New York, LA, Orlando and Fort … Read more

First A350-1000 wing goes into production

The wings for the first Airbus A350-1000 have begun the process of assembly at Broughton, North Wales. The A350-1000 wing has the same span of the A350-900 that is already in service, but 90% of the parts have been modified and the trailing edge has been extended to resize the wing for the additional payload … Read more