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Ryanair: 3 New Manchester Winter 16 Routes To Berlin, Hamburg & Nuremberg

Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, announced 3 new daily winter services from Manchester to Berlin, Hamburg and Nuremberg, beginning at the start of November. Ryanair celebrated its new Manchester winter routes by releasing seats for sale from just £19.99 for travel in November. The...

airBaltic to Fly Riga – Rimini

Riga. The Latvian airline airBaltic will launch a new summer charter flight between Riga and Rimini on June 5, 2016 for Tez Tour. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “We are delighted to serve Rimini, Italy for our excellent cooperation partner Tez Tour to boost summer trave...

Southwest Airlines Intends To Serve Long Beach Airport

Southwest Airlines Co. confirmed its interest and application to bring more low-fare service to Greater Los Angeles by adding new Southwest® service in 2016 at Long Beach Airport. Working with the City of Long Beach, the carrier this week formally applied for slot authority to offer new service, subject to requisite approvals. Southwest’s operation at Long Beach would be an addition to t...

Mahan Air: Development of tourism ties between Islamic Republic of Iran and Kingdom of Thailand

Last week a ceremony held at the Parsian Azadi Hotel, in which, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Mahan Air and high ranking officials of Thailand’s tourism. Some of the most important provisions of this MOU include: 1. Exchange of tourists between the two countries, Iran and Thailand 2. Support and collaboration to expand Mahan air route network to major tour...

Ryanair To Double Berlin Operation

Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, launched its biggest ever Berlin winter 2016 schedule, with 13 new routes to Budapest, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Lisbon, Manchester, Rzeszow, Seville, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Timisoara, Toulouse and Vilnius, and 2 new winter services to Malta and Pisa, which will help deliver 4.7m customers p.a. and support 3,500* jobs, as Ryanair doubles its Berlin...

Air France officially inaugurates its A380 between Paris and Mexico

On 9 February 2016, Air France officially inaugurated its Airbus A380, the Company’s largest super jumbo in its long-haul fleet, on the Paris-Charles de Gaulle – Mexico route. To celebrate the event, Frédéric Gagey, Air France Chairman and CEO, Pieter Elbers, KLM President &CEO, and a delegation led by Matthias Fekl, Minister of State for Foreign Tra...

High-tech terminal rises from the ashes

Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2), in Lagos, is the first and only privately-funded terminal in Nigeria. Keith Mwanalushi spoke to the terminal's chief executive to see how new technology has transformed operations. MMA2 rose from the ashes of a terminal that was engulfed in flames back in May 2000. After the inferno, the Nigerian Government made a decision to redevelop the air...

The 8 most extravagant airports in the world

Exploring a new city on a long layover is the perfect way to squeeze another destination into your trip. But it's a science that's difficult to perfect without ample time to roam around—so why not make an amazing airport your bonus destination? Spending hours in a terminal won't give you cabin fever if it's at one of these action-packed air hubs, with events and amenities...

Napoleon goes solo...

It is one of the most remote spots on the globe. Its population of around 4,500 has huge problems reaching the outside world. For St Helena, however, a new airport means that life is about to change dramatically. Alan Dron reports. In 2016, the tiny island of St Helena, which lies 1,200nm (2,220km) off the coast of Namibia and is just 47sqm (122skm) in area, will open up to the outside world...

Airservices to trial new flight path at Perth Airport

Some overnight flights taking off to the south on Perth Airport’s Runway 21 will have a new flight path as part of a trial to monitor aircraft noise. Airservices is conducting the trial over two periods between February and April to compare actual noise levels from the new flight path with noise modelling data that was used in the initial environmental assessment. Between five and 13 a...

Los Angeles International Airport to Get a Game-Changing $5 Billion Upgrade

It’s not easy being an American airport these days. We may be the world’s top economy, but the world views our airports as substandard, with antiquated facilities, poor design and inconvenient connections among terminals and to their cities. Not one U.S. airport cracked the top 25 in the 2015 Skytrax survey of the world’s best airports. Los Angeles International Airport has co...

Edinburgh Airport hails new flight path a 'success'

Edinburgh Airport has said the recent five-month trial of a new flight path was a success. The route saw planes take off towards the Forth, passing over West Lothian and to the east of Linlithgow. The airport said it reduced congestion and allowed increased airspace capacity but no decision will be made on its future until the end of the year. Some people living under the proposed path ob...

Oman Airports sees new records for growth

The number of passengers in Muscat International Airport exceeded first time ever 10 million passengers (+18%). Additionally, Muscat International Airport broke first time 1 million passenger milestone per month in August, 2015. Salalah International Airport broke also its record – over 1,0 million passengers (+22%) to the newly opened, state of the art airport, resulting in increase in b...

If we choose growth at Gatwick over inertia at Heathrow, 2016 can be year Britain finally solves its airport challenge

For the first time, and after decades of delays and dead ends, there is now a deliverable alternative to the UK’s air capacity question. If we choose growth at Gatwick over inertia at Heathrow, 2016 can be the year Britain finally solves one of its longest running policy challenges. The Government delayed its decision on expansion in December last year, showing once again that Heathrow...

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Star Alliance Paris CDG Lounge remains the World's Best Airline Alliance Lounge

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