(Seoul, July 19, 2023) - Korean Air is resuming multiple routes to China and Japan, including Changsha, Wuhan, Weihai, Fukuoka and Nagoya, after a hiatus of three years and six months. The Seoul Incheon-Changsha route will resume operations with flights five times a week from July 19, and...

Emirates expects a busy summer and is set to operate as scheduled over the peak travel season, including at its 39 European points with its London Stansted route re-starting from 1 August. With over 24,000 scheduled passenger flights to and from 129 airports around the world for July and August, Em...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will operate more flights to Japan and India in the coming months amid strong demand for air travel. It will also add more flights to Los Angeles and Paris by December 2022 and continue with its direct services to Vancouver. Together with adjustments to the Scoot netwo...

Virgin Atlantic continues its transatlantic expansion with a new direct route from London Heathrow to Tampa, launching 3rd November 2022, further cementing the airline’s commitment to its Florida heartland. The new year-round Florida service will initially fly four times a week before increasi...

Latvian airline airBaltic announces that starting on November 1, 2022, it will launch new flights from Riga, Latvia to Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria is the second most visited island in the Canary Islands after Tenerife and is a well-known, attractive leisure destination for travellers all aroun...

Austrian Airlines has said its final Airbus A320 aircraft is finally operational once again. The Airbus aircraft had been in long-term storage since March 2020 in the European country. With its return, the Austrian Airlines fleet of 61 aircraft is fully operational. This marks a significant mil...

Ryanair announces its busiest month ever within last month, flying 15.9 million passengers. Its load factor reached 95 per cent for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, and topped previous records set in May this year. The budget airline reported it operated over 88,500 flights ...

With passenger volumes set to reach 3 million this year, London City Airport today launched a 10-week public consultation on how it can meet passenger demand in the decade ahead. Following the pandemic, the London aviation market has rebounded strongly, with the airport’s own analysis suggestin...

CAA International (CAAi) has joined a consortium led by Spanish artificial intelligence (AI) specialists, Innaxis, to evaluate the human factors and safety considerations in the transition to digital assistants and AI-run aviation operations. The three-year SafeTeam project, funded by Hor...

EasyJet's chief operating officer Peter Bellew has stepped down to pursue other opportunities, the airline said, adding that it remained "absolutely focused" on its daily operation after staff shortages forced it to cut thousands of flights this summer. EasyJet announced on Monday it had appointed ...

airBaltic announces new, modern high visibility uniforms for its technical staff supplied by their manufacturer FRISTADS, which is the first company to provide environmentally declared high-visibility uniforms. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic said, “At airBaltic, w...

Wizz Air announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for June 2022. In June 2022, Wizz Air carried 4,340,115 passengers, representing a 179% increase compared to June 2021, at a load factor of 86.1%. Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offe...

Lufthansa is reactivating the Airbus A380 in response to the steep rise in customer demand and the delayed delivery of ordered aircraft. The airline expects to use the long-haul aircraft, which is popular with customers and crews, again from summer 2023. The company is currently assessing how man...

Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways speaking at the IATA 78th Annual General Meeting in Doha (photo: BillyPix). For a month around the FIFA World Cup being held in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December later this year, hometown carrier Qatar Airways will cut back its route network fr...

“Too many airports are addicted to a “spend big and cream it off the customer” mentality,” said IATA head Willie Walsh at the IATA AGM in Doha (photo: IATA). Government mismanagement in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and airports seeking to raise charges at a time when airlines are st...