Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
Mar 17, 2008
Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand also is planning to enlarge the premium economy
cabin on its Boeing 747-400s and 777-200ERs. "Premium economy has
been such a success for us. There . . .
Airline News - Africa / Middle East.
Mar 17, 2008
Emirates Airlines
Emirates will launch daily Dubai-Los Angeles Sept. 1 aboard a
266-seat 777-200LR. It will be EK's third US gateway after New York
JFK and Houston . . .
Travel Technology News.
Mar 10, 2008
The TSA hopes to eventually approve a design for a laptop bag that
would allow travelers to pass through security checkpoints without
removing their laptops. The TSA has asked . . .
Travel Health & Environment Watch.
Mar 10, 2008
Scientists expect to expand their use of unmanned aerial vehicles
to monitor severe weather conditions. Some UAVs can remain in the eye of
a storm for several hours at altitudes as . . .
Destination News - Hotel, Resort & Spa.
Mar 10, 2008
Accor
Accor has plans to build a $100 million Pullman hotel in Auckland,
New Zealand by the middle of 2010. The 290-room five-star hotel will
target the corporate and meetings . . .
Destination News - Destination, Rail, Road.
Mar 10, 2008
Air France
Air France could cut a quarter of the 4,000 jobs in its domestic
network by 2016 due to increased competition from TGV fast trains, a
spokesman said on Friday. A number . . .
Destination News - Cruise.
Mar 10, 2008
ASTA president Hudak warned cruise selling agents of the impact of
the Passenger Vessel Services Act that could devastate the cruise
industry and travel agents. It would, for . . .
Destination News - Car Rental.
Mar 10, 2008
Auto Europe
Auto Europe is offering savings on early bookings for reservations
made now through February 29, 2008 for travel through December 31, 2008.
Included are discounted . . .
Travel Security Update.
Mar 10, 2008
A laptop case that would allow airport screeners to see its
contents as it goes through an X-ray machine would make traveling easier
for the 250 million people who travel with . . .
Travel Safety Update.
Mar 10, 2008
Aviation groups ask lawmakers to pass FAA reauthorization this
year. A group of 36 aviation organizations is calling on the Senate to
pass a comprehensive FAA reauthorization bill . . .
Airport News - North America.
Mar 10, 2008
A laptop case that would allow airport screeners to see its
contents as it goes through an X-ray machine would make traveling easier
for the 250 million people who travel with . . .
Airport News - Europe.
Mar 10, 2008
A bill going through U.K. parliament and expected to become law
within three months commits the government to cut emissions of carbon
dioxide, the main climate change culprit, by at . . .
Airport News - Asia / Pacific.
Mar 10, 2008
Beijing Capital Airport
Beijing Capital International said the three-concourse facility
welcomed Shandong, Sichuan Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, British
Airways and El Al . . .
Low Cost Airline News - North America.
Mar 10, 2008
AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways launched daily flights to San Juan from Atlanta and
Orlando International. Mar 7, 2008
AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways said February traffic . . .
Low Cost Airline News - Europe.
Mar 10, 2008
EasyJet
EasyJet said on Friday that passenger numbers increased by 22.4
percent year-on-year in February, helped by its acquisition of GB
Airways. Its load factor -- a measure of . . .
Low Cost Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
Mar 10, 2008
Tiger Airways
Tiger Airways will add two leased A319s this year and a fifth A320
in April to its Australian operation, growing seat capacity 65%, the
Centre for Asia Pacific . . .
Airline News - North America.
Mar 10, 2008
US Dept. of Transportation granted rights to operate one daily
frequency to Bogota to Delta Air Lines (from New York JFK beginning
immediately), JetBlue Airways (from Orlando . . .
Airline News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Mar 10, 2008
Air Jamaica
Air Jamaica will offer four daily, nonstop flights between John F.
Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York and Montego Bay and
Kingston, Jamaica. Starting April . . .
Airline News - Europe.
Mar 10, 2008
Aeroflot
Aeroflot on the occasion of its 85th birthday said it intends to
double its annual passenger numbers by 2015 to approximately 16 million
and acquire at least one European . . .
Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
Mar 10, 2008
Air Canada, Jet Airways
Air Canada will operate daily Calgary-Newark from June 16 aboard an
Airbus A319. Separately, it launched a codeshare arrangement with Jet
Airways under . . .
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