During February 2016, EasyJet passengers figures rose by 9.8% to 4,932,212, while its load factor dipped by 0.4 percentage points to 90.5%. For the 12 months to end February 2016, EasyJet carried 7.5%...
Pobeda, the Russian budget airline and a subsidiary of Aeroflot, reports that during 2015, it earned 11 billion rubles ($150 million) in revenues with net profit worth 37 million rubles. The airline, ...
On February 19, the Pakistan government registered Pakistan Airways Limited (PAL) as an independent firm company an authorised capital of Rs100 billion. This company is parallel to the national flag c...
Qunar is planning to launch a new budget airline based in Shenzhen that will fly domestic services. The Chinese online travel firm intends to create the airline with assistance of two unidentified par...
A United Arab Emirates company, LGO International is preparing to launch a women only airline. The new airline will serve only women clients with an all-female crew, made available for high-profile an...
Oman is creating its first low-cost airline to be called Salam Air. The state-owned Muscat National Development and Investment Company (ASAAS) was awarded the country’s second new air services operato...
Growth in Eastern European low-cost carriers (LCCs) is continuing to surge, according to OAG’s new report, ‘Eastern Europe – low-cost and loving it’, with Poland’s LCC’s generating a third of all seat...
In February 2016, Wizz Air’s passenger traffic increased by 21.7% to 1.636million passengers, on the back of a 17.9% increase in capacity. Load factor during the month increased by 2.6 percentage poin...
Media reports are circulating that Norwegian Air International, the Irish based subsidiary of Norwegian Air, has reached an agreement with Shannon Airport to potentially launch transatlantic flights o...
Malaysia Airlines has launched a major codeshare partnership with Emirates. Malaysia Airlines marked the start of its codeshare agreement with Emirates last week, with both carriers placing its codes ...
Kiwi Air is adding more services from Tauranga Airport just two weeks after its first flights to and from the city. Kiwi Regional Airlines' first flights from Tauranga Airport to Nelson and on to Dune...
From April 2016, Vistara will reconfigure its current fleet of nine aircraft to the new seating configuration of eight business class seats, 24 premium economy seats and 126 economy seats. This change...
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