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Ryanair launches Liverpool-Bari route

Ryanair announced a new route from Liverpool to Bari, with a twice weekly service beginning in March 2017, the first route of Ryanair’s Liverpool summer 2017 schedule, which will be launched in full soon. Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said: “Ryanair is pleased to announce a new...

Airlines get freedom to operate flights between US and Mexico

Most restrictions on flights between the United States and Mexico will lift on Sunday, a change expected to bring more options and possibly lower prices for travellers. American, Delta and Southwest have already announced that they will offer new flights across the border later this year. United...

Kalashnikov gunmaker opens store at Moscow's largest airport

Kalashnikov Group incorporated in the State Corporation Rostec has opened its first branded shop to sell non-licensed products. Starting today, the goods are available to be purchased in Sheremetyevo Airport, 3nd floor, Aeroexpress Terminal. The branded Kalashnikov store with the total area of 58 square meters has opened in the Aeroexpress Terminal connected to Sheremetyevo Airpo...

easyJet announces new ski route to Sweden from London Gatwick

easyJet, Europe’s leading and Gatwick’s largest airline, has announced a new route from London Gatwick to Åre Östersund Airport, Sweden which will commence on 11 December 2016 and is expected to be especially popular with skiers and snowboarders. The new route will be easyJet’s first service from the UK to Sweden. When it launches it will be the 32nd country in easy...

Wizz Air Opens Its Sibiu Base

Wizz Air and Romania’s largest airline today celebrates the major milestone of opening its seventh Romanian base in Sibiu and starting four new routes from Sibiu to Nuremberg, Madrid, Milan Bergamo and Munich Memmingen. With the four new flights starting over the weekend, WIZZ, deploying a robust Airbus A320 aircraft to the newest WIZZ base represents a further €9...

Etihad Airways bridges Abu Dhabi with Venice

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will expand its services to Italy with a daily flight to Venice Marco Polo Airport. The new service will begin from 30 October 2016 and be served by an Airbus A319, offering 16 seats in Business and 90 in Economy. Together with Alitalia, its codeshare and equity partner, Etihad Airways will offer 35 weekly flights in and out of I...

Some 15 Russian air companies ready to resume chartered flights to Turkey

Some 15 Russian air companies are ready to resume chartered flights to Turkey as permission is in place, head of Rosaviatsiya Alexander Neradko told reporters on Saturday. "They are about 15 companies," he said. All the companies, which formerly served chartered flights to Turkey, would like to offer flights, he added. Earlier in the day, he told reporters tt may take Russian ai...

Brussels Airlines connects Belgium to India again

Since last March, Belgium and India are no longer connected. Brussels Airlines is to change this as from March 2017, with 5 direct flights to Mumbai’s modern airport Chhatrapati Shivaji. Situated on the West Coast, Mumbai is the state capital of Maharashtra and, with its 20 million inhabitants, is ranked in the top 10 of the world’s largest megacities. The city, that bore the name Bomb...

Man arrested after running across Madrid airport tarmac to catch flight

A man who jumped out of a disconnected jet bridge and ran across tarmac at an airport in Madrid caught his flight, but was arrested when it landed. He had a boarding pass and had cleared security, but had missed boarding for his flight to Gran Canaria. A video posted on Facebook showed him jumping from 10ft (3.5m) in the air, then shouldering two bags and running. The Associated Press new...

Bomb alert 'on two passenger flights' due to arrive at Brussels aiport

Bomb alerts have been reported on two passenger jets due to arrive at Brussels airport The alerts were reportedly radioed in from the aircraft to air traffic controld. The threats came from messages on Twitter, according to Belgian newspaper HLN. Both plane have now landed safely. The planes were both run by the Scandivian airline, SAS, one came from Oslo in Norway and the ot...

Emirates Goes All A380 to Manchester

Emirates announced an 11% capacity increase to Manchester with the deployment of a third daily A380 on the route. As of 1st January 2017, the replacement of the Boeing 777-300ER will mean that all Emirates flights to Manchester will be operated by the iconic double decker aircraft. The airline also unveiled plans to swap its current A380 service at Birmingham from the morning to the afternoo...

Swissport Executive Aviation Nice completes IS-BAH certification for Nice Côte d'Azur

The accreditation awarded by the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) marks the first certification for a Nice FBO. IS-BAH is the protocol of the safety envelope, and it sets an international standard for operations in business and general aviation aircraft ground handling. Aldo Salzillo, Network Quality Manager Swissport Executive Aviation says “Achieving the IS-BAH c...

Dubai International returns to full capacity after Emirates fire

Dubai International returned to full capacity on Saturday for the first time in more than 72 hours after an Emirates plane caught fire and caused hundreds of flight cancellations and delays at the Middle East’s busiest airport. “Dubai Airports confirms that is has lifted all remaining capacity restrictions at DXB (Dubai International) and the airport is back to normal operations,&rd...

Boeing 757 test-bed plane showcases Honeywell R&D capabilities in Dubai

Honeywell’s Boeing 757 test-bed aircraft arrived in Dubai for a three-day stop as part of final testing for a revolutionary new GX Aviation, high-speed inflight Wi-Fi network arriving to airlines and business jets later this year. The jet has been used for research and development by the US company since 2008, and arriving in Dubai last week it had completed more than 400 flight tests in...

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