• Spirit Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service between Oakland/San Francisco Bay and Chicago.

    Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) announced new nonstop service between Oakland International Airport (OAK) and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). This new service will consist of one daily nonstop flight starting May 1, 2014. “We are pleased to add the only nonstop service from Chicago/O’Hare International Airport to the San Francisco Bay Area‘s most convenient airport”…

  • SAS launches new direct route between Stockholm and Hamburg.

      On April 22, SAS launches a new direct route between Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Hamburg Airport with two return flights every weekday and one return flight on Sundays. This strengthens SAS’s customer offering with another direct route to an attractive business destination and a popular weekend destination. Today, over 100,000 passengers fly between Stockholm…

  • Air Canada rouge to Offer More Caribbean Destinations this Summer from Toronto and Montreal.

    22 per cent more seats to the Caribbean than last summer More flights from Montreal to Cancun, Port-au-Prince and Punta Can Air Canada announced that its leisure carrier subsidiary, Air Canada rougeTM, is expanding its choice of more Caribbeandestinations this summer. Routes previously operated by Air Canada from Toronto andMontreal to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Cancun and Tampa, FL, will be converted beginning this spring to Air Canada rouge service. Together with its…

  • SkyTeam Launches Online Round the World Booking Tool.

    Easy-to-book, multi-airline itineraries to 1,024 global destinations in a matter of clicks. SkyTeam, the global airline alliance, has launched an online booking tool for customers wishing to book a Go Round the World pass on any of its 19 member airlines.  Available on Skyteam.com, the intuitive tool offers customers a seamless planning and booking experience with cost-effective…

  • Take off with airberlin and enjoy the spring.

    Anyone wanting to turn their backs on the cold and dark winter will now have the choice of a million extra tickets to fly into the spring with airberlin. Return flights from 98 euros can be booked with Germany’s second largest airline until 28th January 2014. During the travel period from 15th February to 30th…

  • SATA publishes new book “Do Mito Nasceram Asas… Uma História da Aviação Civil” by Ricardo Madruga da Costa.

    SATA is pleased to announce the publication of it’s new book “Do Mito Nasceram Asas… Uma História da Aviação Civil”. The new book tying stamps to the history of aviation in the Azores written by a long time airline executive, Ricardo Madruga da Costa is now available. The book follows and presents a collection of…

  • UTair Launches New Route between Krasnodar and Yerevan.

    UTair Aviation will launch a new international route with service between Krasnodar and Yerevan, Armenia. Flights will begin operating four days a week on February 2, 2014 with departure from Krasnodar International Airport at 00:30 on Tuesdays and Sundays, and at 01:00 on Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights from Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan will depart…

  • Lion Group Chooses CFM56-5B to Power A320ceo Fleet.

    Valued at more than $1.2 billion U.S. Deliveries scheduled to begin in mid-2014 Lion Group announced it has selected CFM International’s engine to power 60 firm Airbus A320ceo (current engine option) aircraft. The agreement is valued at more than $1.2 billion U.S. at list price; the aircraft order was announced in March 2013. Jakarta, Indonesia-based…

  • NASA Selects Physical Science Research Proposals for the International Space Station.

    NASA’s Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency’s new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016.NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) will provide an opportunity to study ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the space station — a frontier…

  • TRANSPORT CANADA AND THE NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION AGENCY OF BRAZIL CERTIFY THE BELL 429WLG.

    Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced the initial certification of the Bell 429WLG by Transport Canada and the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil. Unveiled in October 2013 at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) conference, the helicopter combines the advanced capabilities of the Bell 429 with the added operational flexibility of retractable wheeled landing gear.…