Air Astana has recorded a 10% increase in passenger traffic and a 17% uptick in revenues in the first half of the year compared with the corresponding period of 2017. Between January and June 2018, the airline carried more than two million passengers. The traffic growth was driven by the strong performance on international passenger
Loss-making Tunisair is seeking governmental approval to lay off 1,200 of its currently bloated 8,000-staff workforce. The flag-carrying airline is 74% owned by the Tunisian government. The carrier is currently struggling to keep aircraft in service owing to restricted cash flow, the consequence of an excessive wage bill, which is stopping it from buying much
Mediation talks between Ryanair and its Irish pilots’ union Ialpa-Fórsa which began last week, and which were chaired by independent mediator Kieran Mulvey, have succeeded in breaking the current impasse between the two sides. As a consequence, the 350 or so Irish Ryanair pilots will be voting on the latest proposals, which have been recommended
Ryanair has announced an investment of US$200 million at London Luton airport with two new based aircraft (6 aircraft in total) for its winter 2018 schedule and added 6 new routes to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Cork and Malaga and more flights on its existing Vilnius route. Ryanair’s winter 2018 London Luton schedule will now
Hawaiian Airlines has announced its decision to suspend its thrice-weekly nonstop service between Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) upon the completion of the National Day Golden Week holiday in October. The airline, which started the service in April 2014, will re-deploy its 278-seat Airbus A330-200 aircraft elsewhere
ERA (European Regions Airline Association) has welcomed Air Alsie as its newest airline member, bringing the number of carriers in ERA membership to 51. Based in Sønderborg, Denmark, Air Alsie has been operating since 1989 and with an available fleet of 22 aircraft, is the largest executive operator in northern Europe. Air Alsie, owned by
Ryanair and Air Malta have jointly announced that the Irish carrier will cooperate on sales and marketing initiatives by selling Air Malta flights from its website ryanair.com as from August 21. This win-win milestone agreement for both parties will offer Ryanair’s 139 million customers an even greater choice of destinations whilst also boosting Air Malta’s
Customers at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport will fly nonstop to Dublin, Ireland and Munich, Germany, starting June 6, 2019, thanks to new service from American Airlines. With these flights, DFW Airport will provide its first ever nonstop service to Ireland and its third daily nonstop flight to Germany. The launch of Dublin and
Continuing with its growth strategy, Finnair will begin flying to Los Angeles, California, as of next spring. Finnair will fly three weekly frequencies to LAX airport as of March 31, 2019. In addition, the new route to Los Angeles will be Finnair’s first US route to be regularly operated with the new Airbus A350 aircraft.
Air Astana passengers originating in Dublin, Ireland, can now experience award winning services to Kazakhstan in Central Asia with Air Astana via Frankfurt as a result of Air Astana’s interline agreement with Lufthansa. This means that Dublin originating passengers can benefit from a seamless travel experience to Kazakhstan with a single reservation. Lufthansa operates multiple
