easyJet launches inaugural flight to Gibraltar from Manchester

easyJet has launched its first flight from Manchester to Gibraltar. easyJet now flies to 45 destinations from Manchester and bases 11 aircraft  there. The airline carried over 2.6 million passengers on flights to and from the airport last year. easyJet is expected to fly 30,000 passengers between the destinations annually, operating twice a week throughout … Read more

ATR inaugurates main maintenance base at Toulouse-Francazal airport

ATR today inaugurated its new aeronautical maintenance site in the presence of local officials. ATR’s application was approved by OSAC, the French body for civil aviation safety, which awarded it with a certificate of accreditation as a maintenance organisation. This certification gives ATR the go-ahead to conduct maintenance activities at this site. ATR decided to … Read more

AirBridgeCargo adds Phnom Penh to its destinations network

AirBridgeCargo expanded its South East Asian coverage with the introduction of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which brings total number of destinations in this part of the world to eleven. The new freighter service to Cambodian’s capital will be operated on a weekly basis en-route – Moscow (SVO) – Singapore – Phnom Penh, – with further return to … Read more

TAP Portugal starts daily flights from Lisbon to New York JFK

TAP Portugal started daily operations from Lisbon to New York – John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport, one of the U.S.’ busiest airports, with the most international traffic, which is also the home airport for JetBlue Airways. As recently announced, TAP and the North America-based JetBlue have recently established commercial ties, which include a code-share allowing … Read more

Egyptair MS804 crash update: all bodies recovered

Investigators announced that the vessel contracted by the Egyptian Government has retrieved all the human remains that were mapped at the crash location of the A320. The Airbus A320, which had 66 people aboard, crashed May 19 in the Mediterranean Sea on a flight from Paris to Cairo. Egyptian and French forensic doctors on board the … Read more

Delta adds extra flight to St. Kitts and Nevis

The Nevis Tourism Authority announced that Delta Air Lines has just added a second flight to its St. Kitts and Nevis schedule between December 17 and January 7, 2017 in time for the peak holiday season. This new Wednesday flight is in addition to the weekly Saturday flight Delta operates from Atlanta to St. Kitts. The … Read more

Wizz Air opens its Iasi base

Wizz Air celebrated the opening of its newest Romanian base in Iasi. The airline is initially deploying one Airbus A320 aircraft to be based at Iasi International Airport operating five new routes from Iasi to Larnaca, Bologna, Tel Aviv, Catania and Rome Ciampino starting from 1 July. Already served by Wizz Air flights, Iasi is becoming … Read more

Emirates’ second daily A380 lands in Los Angeles

Emirates launched its second daily A380 service from Dubai International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on Friday touching down just shortly after 8:00pm local time on 1st July. With this expanded schedule, Emirates is now able to serve nearly 1,000 passengers travelling to Los Angeles each day. Also on the same day Vienna joined the family … Read more