news: February 2011 Archives

Sapnish national carrier Iberia has applied to launch services to Sao Paulo from Barcelona. If approved, the route will start on June 17th or 18th. Iberia plans to operate the service thrice weekly with an Airbus A340-300. The competition comes from Singapore  Airlines, which operates thrice weekly SIN-BCN-GRU service on board Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

 Jet Airways (IATA:9W) has applied to start nonstop flights to New York area from India. The airline is expected to start the route from either Delhi or Mumbai. Jet's three Boeing 777-300ERs currently on a wet lease with Turkish Airlines are scheduled to return by October, which the carrier will use for this route. It is believed that the carrier may opt to operate BOM-JFK.

You read it here first. A trusted source has informed The Networker that KLM plans to resume it is services to Buenos Aires, Argentina from the beginning of the IATA Winter timetable (31st Oct) - after a twelve year hiatus. The service will be operating thrice weekly, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It is believed that the flight will have a daylight departure and an overnight arrival to fit the existing hub banks. The equipment is believed to be Boeing 777-200ER, although there is a chance that the airline may opt for either a MD11 or A330 operation. The final route, and equipment details will be published here as soon as they are available. So keep an eye on this blog !

 Oman Air, the national carrier of Oman, is to continue its route network expansion in 2011 Summer season beginning on 27th March.

 Turkish Airlines CEO Temel Kotil, in an interview with a news agency had stated that he plans to launch flights to more US destinations in the next two years.

 The UAE has finally received the much requested additional air services rights from France, report multiple sources. The discussions were later focused on a Rafale order  in exchange for the additional rights, The DEW Line had reported in 2010.

Volaris ( Y4 ), the Mexico based LCC has filed with US Dept. of Transportation to operate on a range of routes between USA and Mexico.

 In yesterday's part one of this article, we covered the soon to be fully merged Air India's new route network. Let's have a look at the airline's system-wide flight number changes from this second and final part of the article.

 Air India will finally start operating under a single AOC on February 12, completing the merger of Air India, Indian and Alliance Air. What is the shape of new AI's network ? Which routes will it operate ? We're here to find out.

 Emirates Airline from 27th March will add four extra flights to Vienna, while doubling its daily flight to Hamburg from 1 September. Schedules below.