Emirates upgrades aircraft on Abuja service

Only two months after launching its operations to Abuja, Emirates has today announced it will upgrade the route’s operating aircraft to a Boeing 777-200ER, starting from 1st October 2014. Emirates launched a daily service to Abuja – its second Nigerian gateway and 22nd passenger destination in Africa – on 1st August utilizing the Airbus A340-300. … Read more

Wizz Air signs financing deal for seven A320s

Wizz Air announced today that it had entered into a sale and leaseback agreement with Goshawk Aviation Limited for seven new Airbus A320 aircraft. The airplanes are planned for delivery between November 2014 and June 2015. This is the first financing deal between the two parties. Goshawk is an aircraft leasing vehicle managed by Investec … Read more

Qantas offers additional services to Wellington

Qantas has announced four additional return Boeing 737-800 services to Wellington from 19 to 23 December 2014 to cater for increased demand over the holiday period. Qantas will operate three return services between Melbourne and Wellington and one return service between Sydney and Wellington. This is in addition to the 14 return services a week … Read more

Qantas and SriLankan Airlines to codeshare

Qantas and SriLankan Airlines today announced a new codeshare agreement, making it easier for Australians to visit Colombo and surrounding holiday destinations, and creating new options for Sri Lankan travellers to access Australia. Effective for travel from 26 October 2014, Qantas will codeshare on SriLankan’s daily Singapore-Colombo service. Customers will be able to connect within … Read more

MEA and Royal Jordanian to codeshare

Royal Jordanian and Middle East Airlines-Air Liban concluded a new bilateral free sale codeshare agreement that will be implemented as of mid this month. Under the terms of the agreement, Royal Jordanian will place its marketing carrier code on MEA-operated flights between Beirut and Amman as the marketing carrier. Also, ME will place its marketing … Read more

Jetstar and Emirates expand codeshare

Emirates and Jetstar have announced the expansion of their codeshare and frequent flyer relationship, to 30 routes across the Asia Pacific region providing more choice to Emirates customers. From 26 October 2014, Emirates will grow its codeshare on Jetstar services to include Jetstar Airways services between Melbourne and Ayers Rock (Uluru), Christchurch to Wellington in … Read more