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The Routes Americas 2021 conference heard from four leading airports – Philadelphia International Airport, SEA Milan Airports, Aeropuertos Dominicanos

Qatar Airways to increase frequency to US and Brazil Qatar Airways plans to increase frequency for the following services, as per a 01-Jun-2021 GDS inventory and timetable display: Doha-Boston: From weekly to four times weekly from 03-Jul-2021; Doha-Miami: From twice weekly to five times weekly from 07-Jul-2021; Doha-New York JFK: From three to 14 times weekly from 02-Jul-2021; Doha-Philadelphia: From weekly to four times weekly from 02-Jul-2021 Doha-San Francisco: From twice weekly to daily fr...

Alaska Airlines to increase LA-Kona and LA-Lihue frequency from Nov-2021 Alaska Airlines plans to increase Los Angeles-Kona service from four times weekly to daily from 21-Nov-2021, as per a 27-May-2021 GDS inventory and timetable display. The carrier will also increase Los Angeles-Lihue service from three times weekly to daily from 20-Nov-2021. Want More News Like This? CAPA Membership provides access to all news and analysis on the site, along with access to many areas of our comprehensive d...

Lao Airlines to suspend all domestic flights until 05-May-2021 Lao Airlines, via its official Twitter account, announced (22-Apr-2021) plans to suspend all domestic flights from 22-Apr-2021 to 05-May-2021 in compliance with an order from Laos Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh. The Government announced the closure of its borders and a two week lockdown in Vientiane in response to an outbreak of COVID-19 linked to

Latest route launches GoAir began Hyderabad to Male on 11 February, with the 1,541-kilometre service operating four-weekly. The carrier will have four routes to Maldives capital this winter: Hyderabad along with Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai. This winter, five airlines are scheduled to operate between Male and India with eight routes, OAG shows. GoAir is the leading carrier by seat capacity. The Indian LCC also has 18 routes from Hyderabad, with Male its only international offering. Pradeep Pani...

COVID-19: Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc across the industry.  Christmas & New Year traffic was severely impacted by UK travel bans imposed at short notice by many EU Govts on 19 & 20 Dec.  These flight bans, and travel restrictions, saw the Group’s Dec. traffic fall by 83% to just 1.9m passengers.  As announced on 7 Jan., Ryanair expects the latest lockdowns and pre-arrival Covid test requirement to materially reduce flight schedules and traffic through to Easter.  The Group’s...

Posted 27 January 2021 10:12 British Airline Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks have announced that they will operate flights and city breaks from Manchester Airport to Iceland throughout Summer 2022. Flights will be operated on Mondays and Thursdays between April and October from Manchester Airport to Keflavík Airport. Customers can choose between flight-only with Jet2.com or a package option with Jet2CityBreaks. This comes in direct response to British holidaymakers and also gives Icelandic nation...

Exclusive: More than £115M spent on mothballed Crossrail 2 project More than £115M had been spent on developing Crossrail 2 proposals during the last six years before the project was mothballed in November, NCE can reveal. The money was spent on developing the route for the now mothballed scheme designed to connect south west London with north London. The Department for Transport (DfT) has spent £58.4M on Crossrail 2 development work, while Transport for London (TfL) spend amounts to £57.3...

Posted 14 December 2020 13:45 Iceland has been a growing tourism destination in the last decade while Keflavik Airport has been strengthening its position as a hub between Europe and North America. In 2018 Keflavik Airport had a record year of almost 10 million passengers but shortly thereafter in March 2019 Wow Air, the airport´s second largest carrier, went out of business and Icelandair had issues with the 737 MAX aircraft like many other airlines. On top of all that Covid-19 has had a con...