Airline news

The Routes World 2023 show and exhibition hosted by iGA Istanbul Airport earlier this month has been hailed as a success by airlines and airports alike. This year’s event saw the world’s airlines, airports and tourism organisations welcomed to Istanbul to discuss route development, opportunities and tourism with a key [read more]

Turkiye’s newest airline, Southwind Airlines, is launching flights from Antalya, Turkiye to 10 UK airports for Summer 2024 as it looks to expand its route map. Southwind Airline launched in 2022 to continue to connect Russian tourists with Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast and later that year it added flights to Germany [read more]

October 2021 saw the long-awaited launch of transatlantic flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from Aer Lingus and two years on, the airline is seeing strong growth and an expanding network. Aer Lingus (operating as Aer Lingus UK) made the decision to offer a transatlantic service from Manchester based on customer [read more]

Leading UK holiday airline Jet2.com (LS/EXS) has announced it is adding two destinations in Morocco to its growing network of destinations together with Jet2 Holidays. Flights to Agadir and Marrakech will commence in the Winter 2024/25 season and continue through the Summer of 2025 from several UK airports. There will [read more]

ProColombia, the trade, tourism and investment agency of Colombia has announced new international connectivity between Colombia and Switzerland following talks at Routes Worlds 2023 held in Istanbul, Turkiye. A new twice-weekly route operated by Swiss leisure airline Edelweiss will operate between Bogota, Colombia and Zurich, Switzerland from 22nd November 2023. [read more]

The Malaysian aviation authority, the CAAM, has suspended the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) of low-cost carrier MYAirline for 90 days following the airlines suspension of operations. The airline has said that it has multiple offers for funding to avoid it collapsing and to restart services but this was not enough [read more]

Routes World 2023 is less than one day away with the great and the good from airlines, airports and aviation stakeholders heading to Istanbul for the 28th annual event. The event is a chance for the global airline industry to discuss route development, where the airline industry is heading and [read more]

Essex Police have confirmed they are attending an incident at Stansted Airport (STN/EGSS) after a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi (KQ100) was diverted there instead of its planned destination of London Heathrow. The Beoing 787 arrived at Stansted shortly before 4pm after being escorted by Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons [read more]