Airlines & Routes

Garuda Indonesia, the national carrier for Indonesia, has selected an end-to-end suite of operations and crew technologies from the Sabre AirCentre Enterprise Operations portfolio, making Sabre Corporation its primary airline operations technology provider. Sabre Airline Solutions’ Operations and Crew Technology Platform will enhance Garuda’s aircraft tracking, disruption control and prevention, and crew management operations. By […]

Capital Airlines will officially launch its Shenyang-Qingdao-Melbourne route, operating three times a week, on September 29th. Deploying an Airbus A330 aircraft, Capital Airlines will provide travelers with a comfortable journey to the other hemisphere. The airline will launch services from several Chinese cities to Melbourne with transfer in Qingdao.

Air China announced at a press conference in Chengdu, that their Chengdu-Sydney service will begin on November 11, 2016. After the launch of Chengdu-Frankfurt and Chengdu-Paris flights, this route is Air China’s third intercontinental flight based in its Chengdu hub, and also its first nonstop service between western China and Oceania. Not only will travelers

Haiti-based Sunrise Airways has entered into the final phase of its application process toward initiating its first-ever flights to/from Jamaica. “Our journey to this point has been long, with some minor turbulence endured along the way, but I’m very pleased to say that we are now, indeed, on final approach to spread our wings to

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has granted an extension of the anti-trust immunity to include Iberia in the joint business between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair, allowing the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan. Iberia is expected to join the existing joint business between the

Norwegian reported that July traffic increased 15% and capacity was up 14% compared to the same period in 2015. The load factor was 94.6%, up 0.8 points.

Hawaiian Airlines has announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the month of July and year to date. Traffic for the month was up 6.4% compared to the previous year, while capacity was up 4.3%. The load factor for July was up 1.7 points to 86.2%

Hainan Airlines has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation to launch an historic new route connecting Las Vegas to Beijing, the first-ever nonstop flight between Las Vegas and Mainland China, announced the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The service will begin December 2, 2016 and will initially operate Mondays, Wednesdays and