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Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000. Photo: John Leivaditis - @athspotting LONDON – Qatar Airways (QR) has announced it will add its 12th gateway in the US with four-weekly flights to Atlanta (ATL) starting June 1. The carrier will also significantly increase frequencies, adding an additional 13 weekly flights to operate a total of 83 weekly flights across its 12 gateways. Qatar Airways Airbus A350-900 taxiing via Hotel Malpensa Airport (MXP) Photo: Andrea Ongaro Flights Schedule In line with the airline’s steady rebuild of its US network, QR plans to resume services and increase frequencies to several destinations: Atlanta (four weekly flights starting 1st June) ....
Norwegian Air Boeing 787-9 Leaving off from Rome Fiumicino Intl Airport Photo: Andrea Ongaro LONDON – Norwegian Air Shuttle’s (DY) Board of Directors has today outlined a simplified business structure and dedicated short-haul route network. With this plan, DY says it is set to create a robust airline to attract investors. The first order of business is to drop its long-haul operations, which will in turn affect 1,1000 UK workers. The company is known for low-cost travel and for winning numerous awards in that category. As such, DY will build on this foundation, it says, and focus on its core Nordics business, operating a European short-haul network with narrow body aircraft. ....
China Souther Boeing 787-8 Boeing 787 China Southern Livery) taken in Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FC=-LIRF) Photo: Andrea Ongaro MIAMI – China Southern (CZ) ranks third largest airline this winter due to the gradual resumption of air traffic in the country. Since 2019, CZ has gone up by three places, with a 16% increase per year from year to year. The growth is linked principally to domestic flights, not international. As such, China’s total domestic seats are up by 35% this winter, OAG data shows. However, the country’s international market remains a shadow of its former self, down by 87%. Chinese airlines now account for seven of the world’s top-20 airlines, up from three last winter. They have 40% of the top-10 spots too, double YOY. ....
MIAMI – 2020 has been a crazy year for the aviation industry. Massive news was constantly being announced from January onward, and our team of writers were hard at work covering all the content. Writers also had the freedom to work on projects expanding beyond news and developed interesting and informative articles. Today, we will take a look back at the top 10 articles of 2020. These articles were selected based on creativity, writing and the featured news. I do wish the list could be longer to showcase all of the amazing articles from this year, but we had to narrow it down to a select few. ....
LONDON – Alitalia (AZ), the largest Italian airline bought by NEWCO, has decided to apply drastic cuts: starting with 5,000 workers, there will also be a review on long-haul routes and on European cities. Five of the many long-haul routes remain active, that is, only the legacy and profitable ones. The draft of the industrial plan of Italia Trasporti Aereo SPA (ITA), provides for the choice of an international partner, when the market begins to show signs of recovery: one between Lufthansa (LH) and the triad Delta Air Lines (DL), Air France (AF) and KLM (KL). Alitalia Boeing 777-243 EI-FNI Landing on Runway 16R in Rome Fiumicino Intl’ Airport (FCO). ....