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June 3 - Emirates Airline has announced operation of extra flights to Cape Town and Johannesburg to accommodate FIFA World Cup enthusiasts. Richard Vaughan, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations Worldwide, said: "Emirates is looking forward to flying in football fans from our network of over 100 destinations across six continents. Being an Official Partner of the 2010 FIFA World Cup…
June 02, 2010 - Al Masria Universal Airlines, Egypt’s first private airline flying to Saudi Arabia, hopes to accommodate 450,000 travellers between the two countries in its first year of operation, the airline’s agent in the kingdom said. Prince Faisal bin Abdullah Al Faisal, Chairman of al Faisaliah Aviation Co, said that AlMasria is targeting up to 15 per cent of the estimated three million air travellers…
June 02 2010 - The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced on Tuesday that the Jordanian airline, Royal Falcon Airlines has started flights from Amman to Abu Dhabi International Airport from June 1. The flights will operate twice a week. This will be Royal Falcon Airlines' second direct flight into the UAE after Sharjah, which started in March this year. The airline will deploy its Boeing 737-400 for the…
June 1 - Dubai’s low-cost carrier, Flydubai, is celebrating its first anniversary today when its inaugural flight was launched. Despite concerns that the airline would not survive in an already suffering aviation industry, the airline has managed to capture more passengers than a conventional airline. Starting with Beirut, Flydubai has added 15 more routes during the year. Recently, the airline started services…
June 1 - The Libyan airliner that crashed on May 12 killing 103 people did not have any technical problems, said the prosecutor's office on Sunday citing an initial probe. "No technical problem has been reported. All the equipment functioned normally," Ali Suyah, who heads the office of Libya's state prosecutor, told journalists. He also clarified that the crash was not "an act of terrorism." The Afriqiyah…
June 1 - The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is considering a set of regulations for the air transportation market in Kuwait to maintain relations between airlines and travel agents, said Deputy Director for Air Travel and Transport Affairs, Nabil Al-Zamel. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the launch of the 2010 Boodai Travel Mart (BMT), organised by Boodai Aviation Group. These…
June 1 - The British Airways (BA) cabin crew strike resumed yesterday once again resulting in one flight cancellation from Dubai. "Out of the three daily flights from the UAE, we have cancelled one flight on the Dubai route during the second wave of strikes," a BA spokesperson told journalists. "Abu Dhabi flights have not been affected." The third wave of strikes is slated to begin on June 5, just a few days…
Copenhagen, DENMARK – Qatar Airways celebrated its recent launch of flights to Copenhagen with a festive gala dinner and a press conference in the Danish capital, where the airline reinforced its commitment to Scandinavia. The Danish city is Qatar Airways’ second destination in Northern Europe, to where the airline also operates daily flights to Stockholm in neighbouring Sweden. Since the…
May 31 - Gulf passengers will once again be bracing themselves for the next round of strikes by the British Airways (BA) cabin crew that kicked off yesterday. Talks between Unite – BA cabin crew union – and the management failed once again on Friday. This round of strikes will last five days, coinciding with the June British bank holiday while the third round will begin on June 5, right before the FIFA world…
May 31 - Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) said on Sunday that it is being targeted by the media in a bid to cause harm to its reputation and commercial interests. Talking about the slander campaign, the head of the Public relations Department, KAC, Adel Bourisly said that the company is always striving to improve its services for the benefit of its customers and that several reports that have appeared in the…
May 31 - Kuwaiti-based Jazeera Airways announced the launch a new sales channel in Kuwait via the Galileo Global Distribution System (GDS). This makes Jazeera the first low-cost airline in the country to have signed up for Galileo. Speaking on the occasion, Stefan Pichler, CEO, Jazeera Airways said: "We remain firmly committed to providing guests with as many channels as possible to book their travel with us,…
Tunisia’s national airline, Tunisair, launched a direct Djerba-London route on Friday with the first plane landing at the Djerba airport. The flight had 90 passengers onboard, including journalists, diplomats and tour operators' representatives. Flights to London will operate twice a week, Monday and Thursday and a plan has been formed to ensure that British guests have a pleasant stay in the Djerba Island.…
May 30 - British Airways (BA) announced on Saturday that several of its flights to and from Heathrow Airport are operating normally as the entire cabin crew have returned to work before starting the next round of strikes over staffing and pay. "The knock-on impact at Heathrow is far less than anticipated due to the numbers of cabin crew who came to work over the past week," British Airways said in an emailed…
March 29 - German Airline Lufthansa announced on Friday that it will start its Baghdad-Munich flights from September 30, the first in 20 years. Lufthansa said that the flights will be operated four times a week by Swiss affiliate PrivatAir using Boeing 737 aircraft between Arbil in northern Iraq and Frankfurt. The group's Austrian Air subsidiary also serves Arbil from Vienna.
May 27 - The overall hotel revenues in the Middle East have gone down with the biggest loser being the hotel industry in Abu Dhabi, said global research provider STR Global. According to a recent report released by the company, the revenue per available room (revPAR) went down by 48.5 per cent in Abu Dhabi to $126 in April over the same time the year before. This is the fourth consecutive month that the…
May 28 - Beirut-based Middle East Airline’s (MEA) pilots went on strike for a few hours on Wednesday but air traffic at the Rafik Hariri International Airport remained normal and no flights disruptions took place. The strike was the result of the breakdown of talks between MEA and its pilots over packages and work conditions. Pilots accuse the airline of temporarily hiring pilots from other airlines thus forcing…
May 27 -The Iraq government dissolved Iraqi Airways because of a decade long financial dispute which dates back to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of oil-rich neighbor Kuwait, the Transportation Ministry said on Wednesday. Kuwait alleges that Iraqi Airways stole ten airplanes and millions of dollars worth of spare parts during the 1990 invasion and has long been demanding $1.2 billion in reparations. Kuwait has been…
May 27 - Dubai’s first low cost carrier flydubai announced it will launch flight service to Colombo, Sri Lanka further expanding its fast growing network. Flydubai began operations nearly one year ago, in June 2010. Ticket prices to Flydubai’s 21st destination start at Dh 450 and will begin on Wednesday, June 23rd. Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, said the new service to Sri Lanka should be very popular…
