China Southern Airlines is temporarily suspending its twice-weekly A380 service to London Heathrow. Outbound flight CZ303 and the return flight, CZ304, are not operating between January 14 and January 28, 2021. The airline attributes this to prevention and control advice regarding the COVID-19 pandemic from the Chinese Government. This follows Chin …
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian doesn’t think his airline or the airline industry will begin to turn around until a COVID-19 vaccine is widely distributed. Mr Bastian believes the airline industry will continue to stagger along, as it did over much of 2020, until most travelers are vaccinated and confident to fly again. “While we have high hopes that …
A New Zealander is claiming Jetstar ground staff at Queenstown Airport got stuck into her box of cherries. The unidentified woman was checking in for a flight to Auckland last month and was told her luggage was overweight. The passenger surrendered the box of cherries, but when she chased it up the following day, she discovered the box was signific …
Icelandair recognizes the wonders that its country has to offer. The airline has expressed that there are plenty of tourism opportunities across Iceland, and it aspires to play an integral part in the nation’s progress in this field. Simple Flying recently had the opportunity to speak with the chief executive officer of Iceland’s flag carrier, Bogi …
Qatar Airways has completed its first service to Saudi Arabia since the latter ended its blockade. The flight saw an Airbus A350 completing the short hop from Doha to Riyadh earlier this afternoon. Recently, there have been many positive developments in air traffic in the Middle East. Last year one of the big stories was that a direct air corridor h …
Emirates has announced it will resume non-stop services to Seattle (from 1 st February), Dallas and San Francisco (from 2nd March). The addition of these three destinations will take Emirates’ North American network to 10 destinations following the resumption of services to Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Toronto and Washing …
The new airline EGO Airways is planning to launch point-to-point domestic routes in Italy beginning March 2021. On January 7, 2021, EGO Airways started ticket sales for travel starting from March 2021. EGO Airways is planning to operate on underserved routes. It will offer service to Forli Airport (FRL), Florence Airport (FLR), Catania Fontana …
Many airlines hastened to meet a cargo demand that found itself without its usual supply of aircraft bellies in 2020. Meanwhile, already established top cargo carriers were well-poised to make the most of the situation. Since the beginning of the crisis, Emirates SkyCargo has recruited an A380 for cargo charter, flown 50 humanitarian flights to Bei …
IAG Cargo ended 2020 with the departure of its 1000 th charter flight since March that year. The new charter flights were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic and utilise aircraft from the Group that would, in normal times, not be available. The 1000 th flight from London Heathrow to Los Angeles Airport was on a B777-200 and included a la …
With the drop in business travel, airlines have shifted their focus toward leisure demand. This change has caused airlines to focus on “sun and fun” destinations — cities focused more on beach tourism. United Airlines has done this throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and will add one more of these routes to their route network. The airline will add a …
Conviasa has taken delivery of an Airbus A340-300. The plane officially arrived on December 31st in Caracas, Venezuela after being reconditioned and painted in Tehran, Iran. High hopes According to Aviaciaonline, registration YV-3507 was previously operated by the Venezuelan private airline Avior. This unit joins registration YV1004, an A340-200 alre …
Indonesian officials said Sunday (10 January) that they believe they have found the site of the crash of a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 passenger plane that fell into the seas shortly after take-off from the country’s capital Jakarta on Saturday. The Sriwijaya Air jet was carrying 62 people when it disappeared from radar four minutes into its journey t …
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