Ethiopian Airlines announced that it has finalized preparations to start three weekly flights to Doha as of 2 December 2014. Ethiopian flights to Doha will bring the total number of Ethiopian international destinations across five continents to 84. The city will mark the 10th Ethiopian destination to the Middle East. With this new flight, travelers to … Read more
VLM Airlines and Ilyushin Finance have signed a Letter of Intent that will see the airline become the first European operator of Sukhoi Superjet 100LR.
SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier of Sri Lanka, has taken delivery of its first A330-300 becoming a new operator for the type.
Cargo airline improves link of the Norwegian oil hub and the African continent with the global network. The Norwegian city of Stavanger is a new destination on Lufthansa Cargo’s freighter schedule. As of 8 November, one of the cargo airline’s Boeing 777F will link Houston with Stavanger every Saturday, providing a direct freighter service between … Read more
Indonesia AirAsia Extra, the affiliate of AirAsia X announced the first route from Melbourne to its hub in Bali, Indonesia, after been awarded with the air operator’s certificate earlier last month. The first long-haul low-cost carrier in Indonesia plan to commence its 5-times weekly flight on 26th December 2014. The maiden route announcement was made … Read more
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital passenger spaceship crashed during a test flight today at the Mojave Air and Space Port killing one crew member and seriously injuring another. Television footage of the Virgin Galactic crash site showed wreckage of the spacecraft lying in two large pieces on the ground, and the company said the spacecraft was destroyed. The … Read more
Boeing and Monarch Airlines today finalized an order for 30 737 MAX 8s worth more than $3.2 billion at current list prices. The order, originally announced at the Farnborough International Airshow in July when Monarch selected Boeing as its preferred bidder for fleet replacement, includes options for 15 additional 737 MAX 8s and marks the beginning of … Read more
Customers of American Airlines will have the most daily, direct service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and London Heathrow Airport (LHR) when the airline adds more service between the two cities beginning in March 2015. The new flight will be operated with the latest addition to American’s international fleet, three-class Boeing 777-300ER. This added … Read more
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines will expand routes to Japan with the opening of new services to Osaka and Nagoya via Cebu.
Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Air Timor last month, Garuda Indonesia officially opened the Denpasar – Dili service.