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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News, Airline Offers on March 10th, 2010 | No Comments
South African Airways & Cathay Pacific will bring Korean and Japanese visitors to SA
South African Airways and Cathay Pacific Airlines, both of which fly between Johannesburg and Hong Kong, will bring large numbers of soccer fans from Korea and Japan for the FIFA World Cup in June and July. Neither Korea nor Japan have direct flights to South Africa.  David Ryan, Cathay’s...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Kenya Airways Improve KQ 767 Fleet Efficiency
Kenya Airways has achieved operation efficiencies on the utilisation of its Boeing 767 fleet of aircraft. This is now expected to improve on connectivity across the routes serviced by the KQ B767s. According to Technical Director Mr. Allan Fullilove, Kenya Airways B767 fleet schedule reliability vs....
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Emirates going to start new flights to Senegal this September
Emirates Airlines on Monday announced its plan to launch direct flights to Senegal – its 106th international destination. Dakar is the airline’s third new African destination in less than 12 months, after Durban and Luanda joined the network in late 2009 and follows new route announcements to Tokyo,...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Kenya Airways rejoined African Airlines Association (AFRAA)
Kenya Airways (KQ) has rejoined the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) six years after it quit, citing what it termed as mismanagement and administrative system failures, the association said here Friday in a statement. The airline’s managing director, Mr. Titus Naikuni, announced the return to the...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Qatar Airways announce to develop biofuel for commercial jets
Qatar’s national carrier “Qatar Airways” announced its plans to develop a biofuel for commercial jet operations in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. Qatar Airways announced plans with Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Science and Technology to develop a sustainable biofuel product for its commercial...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 4th, 2010 | No Comments
South African Airways begins 100-day count down as 2010 FIFA World Cup going to start on June 11
South African Airways (SAA), Africa’s most awarded airline, has begun the 100-day countdown as it continues to prepare to welcome the world to South Africa for the championship tournament that will begin June 11th.  For fans, it’s not too late to purchase seats on flights to the event,...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
No more paper boarding passes on Continental Airlines’ Heathrow flights
Continental Airlines has announced the expansion of its mobile boarding pass service to London’s Heathrow Airport, becoming the first carrier to offer paperless boarding passes on nonstop flights to USA from the United Kingdom. The service allows customers to receive boarding passes electronically...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Air France going to operate new route between Barcelona and Corsica
From next summer,  Air France will be operating a new route between Barcelona and Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica. Flights will begin on May 29 and will be operated by the regional branch at a rate of one flight per week on Saturdays, to which a second flight on Sundays will be added from...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
Fresh strike threat for BA’s passengers, as cabin crew voted in favour of strike
British Airways passengers around the world face fresh threats to their travel plans after the airline’s cabin crew voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. More than 7400 BA cabin crew on Monday voted in favour of walking off the job within weeks amid anger over working conditions and...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
Lufthansa hoping for resumption of normal services till Friday
Lufthansa said Tuesday it hoped to have flights back to normal by the end of the week after agreeing to talks with pilots that ended a costly and damaging strike at Europe’s biggest airline. The German group agreed late Monday to resume negotiations with the Cockpit union, which represents 4,000 pilots,...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
Cathay Pacific Airways to add more flights to Australia
Cathay Pacific will increase the frequency of flights to Australia and sees opportunities for more partnerships with Qantas, according to Cathay Pacific’s chief executive Tony Tyler. "We’ve got a great network around Australia. We don’t see many opportunities for adding new points to that...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 10th, 2010 | No Comments
More flights to Thailand, as Kingfisher is awarded government approval
Government approval has been granted to Kingfisher Airlines to start new international flights, which will double its overseas operations. According to recieved permission Kingfisher can now start flights to Thailand’s city Bangkok, London in UK, Dubai in UAE from New Delhi and Flights to Bangkok,...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Philippine Airlines resuming its Flights to Brisbane after 12 years
Philippines national flag carrier Philippine Airlines will be resuming its flights to Brisbane, Australia next month and is offering a special round trip fare for passengers who book early. Airline is set to relaunch its Brisbane route on March 17 with thrice-weekly flights from Manila (Manila-Melbourne-Brisbane-Manila)....
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Emirates Airlines planning to Fly to Liberia in near future
The Liberia Civil Aviation Agency (LCAA) has begun strong negotiations with Dubai-based Emirates Airline to begin flight to Liberia. On Thursday, January 28, Director General of the LCAA, told that Liberia was receiving favorable responses from Fly Emirates and that the negotiations between the two parties...
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Posted by mkmajeed in Airline News on February 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Emirates Airlines eyeing for Additional Flights to Australia
Since the current deal between the UAE and Australia allow the phased growth of Emirates’ services ends next year, negotiations on a new air services agreement between the two countries are expected to begin soon. Emirates already seems to have started a drive to boost flights to Australia. At...
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