• SWISS to offer new summer Ibiza, Olbia and Palma de Mallorca services from Basel.

    SWISS will be offering new seasonal services between EuroAirport Basel and the vacation destinations of Ibiza, Olbia and Palma de Mallorca in its 2014 summer schedules. From the beginning of June to the end of October SWISS will operate up to four weekly flights to Palma de Mallorca. Olbia will receive two weekly services from…

  • Brussels Airlines will fly The Broken Circle Breakdown crew to USA for the Oscars.

    This morning, The Broken Circle Breakdown crew flew out from Brussels Airport. They were on board Brussels Airlines flight to New York where they will start their promotional tour for the Oscars.  Actress Veerle Baetens, director Felix van Groeningen and producer Dirk Impens flew to New York with Brussels Airlines. It is the starting point…

  • United Airlines Celebrates Valentine’s Day with “Love in the Air”.

    Airline asks couples to share their love stories for a chance to win two BusinessFirst tickets. Met your better half in flight? Popped the question at 30,000 feet? Cupid‘s arrow strike you at the airport? If so, United is looking for your story. The airline today launches its “Love in the Air” promotion for customers whom United helped connect…

  • Lufthansa: Pioneer in aviation.

    80th anniversary of trailblazing airmail flight across the South Atlantic. On 3 February 1934, the predecessor of today’s Lufthansa launched a scheduled transatlantic airmail service from Germany to South America – a pioneering achievement that received international acclaim. Lufthansa covered the distance of more than 13,000 km from Berlin to Buenos Aires in just six…

  • Nigerian airline moved 2.7 million passengers in 2013.

    Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier, has announced a steady growth in the number of passengers it carried between 2012 and 2013, according to latest figures released here Thursday by the airline. The figures showed that the airline moved  2,745,400 passengers in 2013, representing 18.6 per cent increase over the 2012 passenger figure of…

  • QATAR AIRWAYS VOTED ‘BEST LONG-HAUL AIRLINE’ AND ‘BUSINESS AIRLINE OF THE YEAR’ AT UK AWARDS CEREMONY.

    Qatar Airways Takes Home Two Accolades At UK Business Travel Awards 2014. Qatar Airways has been named ‘Business Airline of the Year’, and for the second year in a row ‘Best Long-Haul Airline’ at the high profile UK Business Travel Awards 2014 which was held in London recently. Over 1,300 industry representatives attended the 19th…

  • Cathay Pacific adjusts Middle East network effective from 2014 summer schedule.

    Cathay Pacific Airways today announced that it will make some adjustments to its Middle East network. These changes become effective from the 2014 summer schedule which commences on 30 March 2014. Dubai The two daily flights between Hong Kong and Dubai will remain unchanged. Bahrain The Bahrain service will be increased to a daily flight…

  • First US Airways Aircraft Takes to the Skies in American Airlines Livery.

    An Airbus A319 returns to service as the first legacy US Airways aircraft painted in American Airlines colors. American Airlines today entered into service the first legacy US Airways aircraft, an Airbus A319, painted in the American Airlines livery. The newly dressed plane, tail number N700UW, will debut its freshly painted fuselage with service fromCharlotte to New…

  • TAP launches campaign with special prices for 49 destinations.

    TAP’s new multi-destination campaign includes 40 cities in the airline’s European network, as well as New York and Miami in the United States, Casablanca, Marrakech and Tangier in Morocco, and Sal, Praia, Boa Vista and São Vicente in Cape Verde. The promotion offers very attractive prices for round trip travel to destinations in Cape Verde…

  • All Blacks take to the sky once again with Air New Zealand.

    Air New Zealand has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the country’s world champion All Blacks for the upcoming 2014 season. The airline will this year launch a global campaign promoting the association between the two well known brands, featuring some equally recognisable faces – Richie McCaw, Dan Carter and Kieran Read. Air New Zealand has also added Dan Carter…