Air Asia X has said that it will announce its first Indian and Australian destination in the coming days, including the UK, Middle East, India and China.
Air Asia is an offshoot of Asia’s biggest low cost airline Air Asia.
source: luchtzak.be
Fly540, the low cost Kenyan airline, has introduced thrice-weekly flights between Nairobi and Eldoret.
This is in response to requests from potential passengers affected by the poor state of roads in Western Kenya, the airline said.
Fly540 will fly to Eldoret via Kisumu on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, starting July 20. The flights leave Nairobi at 8.15 am to arrive in Eldoret at 9.40 am. The return flight departs Eldoret at 10.10 am arriving in Nairobi at 11.30 am. Return fares begin with a pay-and-go starter fare of Ksh 7,540 ($113) exclusive of taxes.
source: allAfrica.com
An engine failure has forced a brand new Airbus A330-200 carrying more than 300 Jetstar passengers to Melbourne from Bangkok to divert for an emergency landing at Bali’s Denpasar Airport.
The captain of the Jetstar flight headed for Bali after the aircraft’s computer system detected the fault and shut one engine down.
Flying for almost an hour on one engine, the jet landed at Denpasar about 6.45am (AEST), stranding its 302 passengers and 12 crew for an unwanted 17-hour stopover.
source: theage.com.au
In a move that will be a boost to travelers benefitting from cheaper air fares and a headache to discount airlines like JetBlue Airways Corp. and Southwest Airlines Co. who are going to face more competition, newcomer Virgin America Inc. began selling tickets Thursday in preparation for starting service next month from San Francisco to Kennedy Airport.
San Francisco-based Virgin America, the low-fare airline partly owned by United Kingdom billionaire Richard Branson, said it plans to begin flying Aug. 8 from San Francisco to Kennedy, charging an introductory one-way fare of $139. Service to Las Vegas and Dulles Airport in suburban Virginia are to be added in the next two months, Virgin said.
The low-cost airline Ryanair is to ditch its flights from Inverness and Aberdeen to Liverpool after only a year because of poor passenger numbers.
The company yesterday announced plans for 11 new routes across Europe from October. But 11 other links, including Inverness-Liverpool and Aberdeen-Liverpool are being axed from 2 November to accommodate them.
source: scotsman.com
Maverick airline Virgin America plans to begin selling tickets Thursday, giving travelers their first chance to book a trip on planes equipped to pamper passengers even when they aren’t flying first-class.
The airline’s inaugural flights are scheduled to take off Aug. 8 from Los Angeles and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrive at roughly the same time late that morning in San Francisco, which will serve as Virgin America’s hub.
source: MSNBC
Ryanair today announced 11 new routes from its bases in Barcelona, Bremen, Brussels, Dublin, London, Marseille and Milan. The airline also cancelled another 11 routes.
These 11 new routes bring the Ryanair network to 499 routes across 26 countries and mark the reinstatement of low fare flights between France and Morocco following the French Government’s refusal in December to proceed, as other European countries did, with the prompt application of the already agreed EU Morocco open-skies agreement.
source: finfacts.com
Angry passengers have hit out after budget airline Flybe axed a number of popular routes and blamed the controversial terminal tax for killing off routes.
Since the much-vaunted arrival of the low-cost airline in the city in January 2005, the number of scheduled flights to a range of UK and European destinations has more than doubled.
Passenger numbers have boomed with holidaymakers joining business people on flights out of the city to a number of destinations including Amsterdam, Paris, Belfast, Edinburgh, Malaga and Alicante.
But the introduction of a controversial £3-a-flight terminal tax for passengers in April has led to the withdrawal of some flights this winter including Alicante/ Malaga.
source: eveningnews24.co.uk
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, the parent company of Brazil’s low-cost airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. and VRG Linhas Aereas S.A., has entered into an interline agreement with Aerolineas Argentinas.
Passengers traveling on Aerolineas Argentinas will be able to purchase tickets through the airline or participating travel agencies for all 58 destinations served by GOL in Brazil and South America.
This is the third interline agreement GOL has entered into international carriers in 2007. North American-based Continental and Delta airlines all currently sell GOL tickets through their reservation systems. GOL does not sell tickets for partner airlines’ flights. In addition to these interlines, GOL maintains a code-share agreement with Panamanian-based Copa Airlines since August 2005.
source: PR Newswire
Vueling said the number of passengers it transported in June increased 78.7 pct to 529,537 from 296,309 a year earlier, while its load factor fell to 69.1 pct from 73.7 pct in June 2006.
In a statement, the low cost airline said that the outlook for the load factor in the third quarter is ”favourable”.
During the first half, the number of passengers transported rose to 2.5 mln, also up 78.7 pct from the year-earlier period, while the load factor increased to 69.5 pct from 67.0 pct, it noted.
source: ABC Money
