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Airlines & Routes

EL AL Israel Airlines and Alaska Airlines expand global partnership

EL AL Israel Airlines and Alaska Airlines have expanded their commercial relationship to include a reciprocal frequent flyer agreement. This agreement is in addition to the codeshare agreement that recently came into effect between the airlines allowing EL AL to place its “LY” code on various Alaska Airlines “AS” flights in the U.S. The codeshare

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Lufthansa becomes first airline to earn IATA ONE Order certification

ONE Order is the IATA initiative to modernize its member airlines’ flight booking and accounting processes, to enable them to align their products even more closely to customers’ needs and substantially simplify the customer’s booking experience. Under the ONE Order approach, the customer is issued a single reference number for their journey, known as their

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FlyArystan takes to the skies

FlyArystan, the newest low fare, high quality airline from Kazakh flag carrier Air Astana, took to the skies on May 1, for its first revenue flights from Almaty International Airport.  The airline starts with six domestic routes, with journey times from one to three hours to Taraz; Shymkent; Pavlodar; Uralsk; Nur-Sultan (Astana) and Karaganda. From

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Delta starts new service from New York to Mumbai

Delta will launch service connecting New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport with Mumbai beginning Dec. 22. This route establishes a link between the financial capitals of two large trade partners and boosts competition, choice and options for customers traveling between the United States and India. The JFK-Mumbai flight will be operated out of Delta’s

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Passengers compensation claims refused as SAS pilots’ strike continues

Scandinavian airline SAS has confirmed that it will reject all passenger compensation claims resulting from the current pilots’ strike which began last Friday, and which has so far affected over 100,000 passengers. According to the airline, compensation need only be paid if flights are canceled owing to “extraordinary circumstances”, events which could not have been

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Etihad Airways unveils major Economy transformation programme

Etihad Airways has unveiled a major Economy transformation programme starting with the cabin upgrade and refurbishment of 23 narrow-body Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft. The retrofit programme, which includes new personalised wireless streaming entertainment to smartphone and tablet devices, is scheduled for completion in August this year. The airline is also introducing a new and

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DAE delivers ATR 72-600 to US Bangla Airlines

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd. announced that it has delivered an ATR 72-600 to Bangladesh-based US Bangla Airlines. The aircraft was handed over to the airline during a celebration at the ATR facility in Toulouse, France. This factory new ATR is the final aircraft of an order of 20 ATR 72-600 aircraft which DAE placed

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