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Qantas announced it would increase capacity from Perth to a number of Western Australian destinations from today. Qantas Group Executive Commercial Rob Gurney said the increased capacity would further meet demand from regional communities and industries including the resource sector across Western Australia. “Qantas is always focused on meeting market demands and responding with increased capacity, where appropriate,” Mr Gurney said. “From today we will be increasing capacity from Perth to...
Ryanair will open 4 new routes (14 in total) from Knock to Barcelona (Girona), Frankfurt (Hahn), Milan (Bergamo) and Paris (Beauvais) from April 2012. Ryanair’s 14 routes from Knock will deliver over 500,000 passengers To celebrate its 14 low fare Knock routes, Ryanair released 1m seats with fares from €14.99 for travel across its 1,000 European routes in Jan 2012. These seats must be booked on ryanair.com before midnight (24:00hrs) Thursday (24th Nov). Ryanair’s 4 new low fare routes from...
Air Arabia announced today that it has launched direct service to Russia, offering breaking launch deals on return flights to Moscow. Later this month, Air Arabia will also introduce service to Yekaterinburg, its second destination in Russia and the fourth-largest city in the country. To facilitate easy online bookings for Russian passengers, customers can access the Air Arabia website (airarabia.com) in the Russian language – or in Arabic, English, French, Italian, German or Spanish. The two...
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will serve meals by the Flemish chef Peter Goossens of restaurant Hof van Cleve in World Business Class from 1 December. In working with this top chef, KLM is once again offering its passengers the highest quality, following on from meals by Sergio Herman, Jonnie Boer and Mario Ridder. Peter Goossens’ restaurant Hof van Cleve has three Michelin stars. Goossens was also ranked 15th in the world’s top 50 restaurants in 2011. “KLM is continuing to work with top chefs and...
Lufthansa is expanding its presence in the dynamic Chinese market and next year will be resuming its service to Shenyang and launching a new route to Qingdao. From 26 March 2012, an Airbus A340 with a seating capacity of 266 passengers will take off from Frankfurt for Shenyang, a key industrial centre in northeastern China. From there, the flight will continue onwards to Qingdao in Shandong Province, connecting the port city on the Yellow Sea to Lufthansa's global route network for the first...
KLM will serve Lusaka three times a week using an Airbus A330-200. The aircraft has space for 243 passengers, 30 in World Business Class and 213 in Economy Class. Starting 15 May 2012, flight KL561 will depart from Schiphol on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:30 hrs, arriving in Lusaka the same day at 22:10 hrs. The return flight, KL562, will depart Lusaka at 23:55 hrs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights and arrive in Amsterdam at 09:55 hrs the next morning. Zambia is experiencing...
Royal Jordanian will resume its regular direct operations from Amman to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, starting November 24, 2011. The airline has five flights a week to Tripoli. RJ President/CEO Hussein Dabbas said that the company's decision to restart operating flights to Tripoli comes two months after its resumption of flights to Benghazi, which started on September 15, 2011. RJ suspended all its flights to Tripoli and Benghazi due to the events witnessed by Libya starting with February....
At a special event in Kingston, Jamaica this afternoon, JetBlue Airways' Chief Commercial Officer Robin Hayes announced that the value airline intends to grow services from the island's capital and largest city next spring, launching twice daily nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale, Florida beginning April 30, 2012. From Fort Lauderdale, Jamaicans will also have convenient connecting service onwards to Austin, TX; the New York metro area (La Guardia, Newark or Westchester County); and Richmond,...
Air Seychelles has announced that it will be suspending its Singapore services as from November 24th, 2011. Simultaneously it will be identifying new routes to the Far East in co-operation with other airlines. The withdrawal from Singapore on the national airline’s regional network is mainly due to heavy losses in revenue based on operating costs, low uptake of seats and cargo space. This has come about due to increased competition from other carriers offering multiple shopping destinations...
Thai Airways International is now serving the route Bangkok-Brussels-Bangkok, reinforcing tourist confidence in Bangkok as a leading world travel destination. Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand, THAI President, said that THAI has begun serving the route Bangkok-Brussels-Bangkok at the start of its Winter Program, in order to meet rising passenger demand for travel from Europe to Thailand that increases particularly during Europe’s winter season. THAI’s service to and from Bangkok-Brussels also makes...
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