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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments
More flights to Colombo with Air Asia
AirAsia has launched daily direct flights between the two capital cities of Sri Lanka and Malaysia – Colombo and Kuala Lumpur.  Dato’ Sri Tony Fernandes, Group Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia, said, “Colombo has long been on our network radar and we are very proud to liberalize the market...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Jetstar to cut flights to Sydney
JETSTAR will slash three Sydney services daily from its Avalon Airport operations as parent company Qantas cuts costs by $1.5b. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce confirmed the cuts this morning in a “rebalance” of operations between Avalon and Tullamarine operations. He said introducing some...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Air Canada to start flights between Calgary and Hawaii
Air Canada announced that from Dec. 5, it will launch the only nonstop, seasonal service between Hawaii and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. "We are pleased to launch the only nonstop flights from both Honolulu and Maui to Calgary this winter, saving more than two-and-a-half hours of trip time in each...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Continental Airlines to join star Alliance on October 27
Continental Airlines said Monday that it will officially join the Star Alliance that includes United Airlines and Lufthansa on Oct. 27. The Transportation Department approved antitrust immunity for Continental last month to work closely with its new partners in setting prices and schedules on international...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Arik Air has resumed flights to Maiduguri
Arik Air has resumed services between Abuja and Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. The airline suspended its services to Maiduguri at the end of July following the outbreak of militant activity across the region. The resumption of flights means that Arik Air connects Maiduguri and the Federal Capital...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Virgin Atlantic is picked by Gordon Brown ahead of British Airways for USA Visit
The securing of the contract to take the Prime Minister’s entourage to the G20 summit in Pittsburgh is a huge propaganda coup for Sir Richard Branson’s airline group. It will be the first G20 summit hosted by President Obama and will attract huge media interest. British Airways lost out to Virgin...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 17th, 2009 | No Comments
More cheap flights to Thailand with V Australia
Virgin’s V Australia, will begin flights to Thailand by November and South Africa early next year as it attempts to reduce its dependence on the highly competitive Australia-US route by expanding its international network. In the latest sign of the extent of the difficulties it is having on the trans-Pacific...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 12th, 2009 | No Comments
New flights to Maldives with British Airways
British Airways would start flights to Maldives during the last week of October, Maldives’ Minister of Civil Aviation, Mahmood Raazee had said speaking at the ceremony to sign MOUs on joint air services agreements between Maldives and UK. Minister said that the main objective of the MOU is to revise...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Big sale promotion by Air Asia
AirAsia has launched a regional “Big Sale” promotion with 3 million seats up for grabs. Flights are available under this new promotion  from AirAsia’s eight hubs: Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Penang, Kota Kinabalu, Bangkok, Jakarta, Bali and Bandung. Travellers could fly from Kuala Lumpur to domestic...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline Financial News, Airline News on August 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Increase in Ticket price and change fee by British Airways
British Airways has increased its long-haul fares across the board by up to £40 per round trip on August 07, 2009.  The airline is adding £20 per round trip to all long-haul fares in World Traveller (economy) and World Traveller Plus (premium economy) and £40 per round trip to fares in Club World...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 10th, 2009 | No Comments
More flights to Cairns with Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines has announced its decision to continue offering four weekly connecting flights linking Japan and Cairns, Australia, via Guam after October 1, 2009. On April 1 2009, Continental Airlines provisionally increased the weekly number of flights on Guam-Cairns routes from two to four. And...
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Posted by Yamna in Airline News on August 10th, 2009 | No Comments
British Airways load factor increase of 3.1% to 84.6% in July
British Airways surprised the market when it revealed this week that traffic in July actually lifted by 1%, which resulted in a load factor increase of 3.1% to 84.6%. Premium traffic continues to drop, and British Airways notes that while yields may be uncertain, overall traffic figures over the coming...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 7th, 2009 | No Comments
More Sydney flights by Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand is to launch direct air services between Rotorua and Sydney. The service which is scheduled to commence 12 December 2009 will be operated with 152-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. The airline will operate a twice weekly service from 19 December on Saturdays and Mondays until the end of January,...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 7th, 2009 | No Comments
New flights to Riyadh from Mumbai
India’s Jet Airways has launched flights to Riyadh, the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. The new flight is the airline’s second service to Saudi Arabia, complementing the airline’s existing daily Mumbai-Jeddah service. The airline...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 7th, 2009 | No Comments
More Melbourne flights by China southern airlines
China Southern Airlines has launched a third weekly flight from Melbourne to Guangzhou (formerly Canton). The new service will run until the end of March, 2010. The new flight schedule, which introduces a Saturday departure, is being introduced in two phases. In phase one, from now until 26 October 2009,...
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