Alaska Airlines has named 25-year Alaska Airlines employee Wayne Newton managing director of its Seattle station, overseeing the day-to-day operations at its largest hub. Newton replaces John Ladner, who moved into the role of managing director of fleet, standards and operational control on Sept. 1. “With an average of 165 daily peak-season departures, Seattle-Tacoma International … Read more
Alitalia confirms that Silvano Cassano is to step down as Chief Executive Officer, with immediate effect. Mr Cassano, who is leaving for personal reasons, formally tendered his resignation to the Board of Directors today. The Board of Directors has decided to provide the appropriate delegation of authority to the Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to exercise … Read more
Airnorth has announced the expansion of its Northern Territory network with services to operate from Darwin to Katherine, Tennant Creek and onto Alice Springs commencing 19 October, 2015. This new route further expands regional air services within Northern and Central Australia for Territorians and visitors to the region. Airnorth will operate full service flights three … Read more
Ethiopian Airlines announced that it has finalized preparations to start new services to Yaoundé, Nsimalen International Airport on October 25, 2015. The capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, is the second largest city in the country after the port city of Doula. The four weekly flights to Yaoundé is Ethiopian second destination in Cameroon and offers customers … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Qantas has today announced it will meet increasing demand from Australians travelling to Bali with new seasonal services to operate direct from Sydney. During December this year and January next year, Qantas will operate four services per week, a total of 33 return services, between Sydney and Bali with … Read more
LIAT announced the resumption of flights to and from the Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica starting Friday September 18. LIAT was forced to suspend services to Dominica on August 27 due to the passage of Tropical Storm Erika which resulted in severe damage to the island and closure of the Douglas-Charles Airport. Chief Executive Officer David … Read more
Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, has posted its 2014 financial and operational results, the airline’s strongest financial results in a decade. The results reflect a fall in annual losses from BHD93.3 million in 2013 to BHD62.7 million in 2014 – equivalent to a 32.8% reduction. Commenting on the airline’s ongoing positive development … Read more
easyJet has agreed a three year strategic partnership with Cranfield University, a world-leading aviation and aerospace institution. Both based in Bedfordshire, the agreement will see the two organizations work together on projects which support each other’s strategic objectives. Marking the start of the partnership and easyJet’s forthcoming twentieth birthday, Cranfield students have been tasked with … Read more
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $24.5 million in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to 11 airports around the country to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) and Zero Emissions Airport Vehicle (ZEV) programs. “These programs are crucial to our efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and … Read more
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline based in the UK, is for the first time today introducing an ATR 72-600 series aircraft into its fleet. The aircraft has been delivered to Flybe from the leasing firm Avation PLC, and will operate from Sweden in the livery of Flybe’s new partner in Northern Europe, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). … Read more