Posted by Adee in Airline News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Aegean Airlines signs Full Content Agreement with Travelport GDS
Travelport GDS has signed a new, multi-year full content agreement with Greek carrier, Aegean Airlines.  Under the new agreement, the airline will provide all Travelport GDS-connected travel agents around the world with its full, published inventory, including its former web only fares. Robin Ranken,...
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Posted by Yamna in Travel on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Amusement Parks: The Phenomenon
The idea of creating in the real world, a world in which to materialize castles, roads, trees and animals that have always populate fairy tales and imagination of young and adult people, born from the genius of Walt Disney, in the fifties, in California, with the opening of the famous Disneyland Park....
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Posted by Adee in Worldwide Flights on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Thermal scanners at Adelaide Airport
SA Health is waiting for federal approval before it can use thermal scanners to help detect swine flu among incoming passengers at Adelaide’s International Airport. The Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, says eight international airports around the country will have the technology. But the...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Delta Airlines all set for direct flights to Kenya
Delta Airlines has confirmed it will start commercial flights from the United States to Kenya on June 3. The US-based carrier, the world’s largest, will start flights to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JIKA) via Dakar, Senegal. The flights to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline Financial News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia and Air France-KLM suffer from swine flu threat – SHARE WRAP
Lufthansa (-9.3%), British Airways (-7.8%), Iberia (6.6%), and Air France-KLM (-6.6%), all of which have Latin American services, lost most heavily yesterday, as the threat of Swine Flu was broadcast around the world. The world’s airline, airport and aviation supplier stocks were punished in front...
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Posted by jones in Airline News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Ritz-Carlton Cuisine Takes Flight on Lufthansa
Starting May 1st, Ritz-Carlton will be lending the culinary skills of their chefs to Lufthansa flights embarking from their 18 US gateways to Germany as part of partnership that seeks to deliver a seamless brand experience. The idea being that business and first class customers can stay at one of the...
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Posted by Yamna in Worldwide Flights on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
France urges EU ban on Mexico-bound flights
How far should Europe go to protect itself from swine flu?  While passengers continue to return from Mexico, France will call for an EU-wide ban on all flights to the stricken country. The proposition will be discussed by the bloc’s health ministers. But, with precautions already being taken at...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Cathay Pacific declines union request for cabin crew to don masks as swine flu precaution
Cathay Pacific Airways has declined a request by flight attendants to wear masks and gloves as a precaution against swine flu, saying Thursday global health authorities haven’t advised such measures. The airline’s flight attendant union asked permission earlier this week for cabin crew to...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Air France Crew Refuses To Board Flight To Mexico
An entire Air France-KLM crew and several individual flight attendants have refused to board flights to Mexico since Saturday because of the outbreak of swine flu, airport sources said Wednesday. Under French law employees may refuse to stay on their job if they have "a reasonable motive" to...
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Posted by Yamna in Worldwide Flights on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments
[ Swine Flu ] Airlines offer alternative arrangements
British Airways is among seven airlines allowing passengers to reschedule their flights to Mexico in the wake of the worsening Swine Flu outbreak. The flag carrier is still operating four weekly flights to the country, unlike Thomson, Thomas Cook and First Choice – which have cancelled their services...
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Posted by Adee in Airline News on April 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Virgin Blue launches Daily Perth – Darwin Flights
Virgin Blue has launched daily flights between Perth and Darwin in Australia. Perth Airport CEO Brad Geatches said Virgin Blue’s decision to fly to the Northern Territory brings more competition to the route and more choice for Western Australian travellers. “The new service by Virgin Blue will bring...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Air Namibia Cuts London Route
WINDHOEK – The national airline has canned the London route, as the world economic crisis continues to take a bite on its bottom line. In addition, Air Namibia has reduced the frequency of other flights in the region and increased flights in routes deemed to have potential for growth, all in a bid...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline Financial News on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments
British Airways bounces back from flu losses
British Airways has bounced back after this week’s swine flu inspired losses. The airline’s shares have added 6.4p to 149.5p as investors decided the recent falls had been overdone. Cruise operator Carnival edged 10p higher to £17.72 for similar reasons. With Wall Street virtually unchanged...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Worldwide Flights on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Tour operators and airlines cut flights to Mexico
British tour operators are preparing to fly all passengers home to the UK from Mexico. The operators cancelled all holidays to the beach destinations of Cancún and Cozumel on the Yucatán peninsula until 8 May, following new Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice on Monday night. A spokesman said: "We...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Edinburgh-Frankfurt service cut
LUFTHANSA suffered a 35 per cent drop in passenger numbers using its Scottish service this year, as the global economic crisis resulted in a sharp decline in tourism and business traffic between Edinburgh and Frankfurt. And yesterday the German carrier said it was to cut flights between the two cities...
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