Capacity between Canada and Mexico grew by 16 percent last year to more than 5.6 million seats, with start-up Jetlines the latest airline to announce plans to serve the market.
Ahead of his participation at Routes Americas 2019, Routesonline speaks to Xavier Mufraggi, chief executive of Club Med North America and the Caribbean, about the company's approach to route development.
We speak to Mohamed Sallauddin Mat Sah, general manager of Airline Marketing team at Malaysia Airports, the Overall Winner of the Routes Asia 2018 Marketing Awards, to gain an insight into how they work, and what winning the award meant to them.
This week: Allegiant Air to open base at Grand Rapids; KLM and Atlantic Airways to codeshare; record year for Budapest; and VINCI to invest in Lisbon airports.
In the second part of our interview with Vincent Hodder, the chief executive of LEVEL, he discusses the low-cost carrier’s existing network and route development strategy
Low-cost carriers continue to dominate the list of fastest-growing major airlines in the world, exclusive research by Routesonline has found, with eight of the top ten positions taken up by budget operators. A Thai airline took the crown as the carrier which expanded at the quickest rate in 2018.
North Asia continues to be a strong driver of international traffic for Mactan-Cebu International Airport. Routesonline looks at the growth of services between the Philippines airport and cities in China.
Aviation consultancy ASM has helped to secure a major new international route for Suriname with the confirmation that Star Alliance member Copa Airlines is to launch a twice weekly service from the South American country to Panama City.
A takeover has been agreed for struggling regional airline Flybe through a consortium led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group. The joint venture partners now plan to create a “fully-fledged UK network carrier” under the Virgin Atlantic brand, which will provide feed for Virgin Atlantic’s long-haul network.
The first chief executive of LEVEL, International Airlines Group’s low-cost brand, exclusively reveals to Routesonline how he plans to shape the airline so it is ready to aggressively expand from 2020 onwards. In the first part of a wide-ranging interview, Vincent Hodder discusses his time at the helm of the carrier so far and why it soon has a big decision to make on the type of aircraft that will form the backbone of its future fleet.
This week: HK Express is resuming service to Thailand’s capital city Bangkok and Avianca Argentina is to open a new international service to Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Heavyweights from across the region will gather in Cebu City to share insight and debate the predicted outlook for the aviation industry in 2019 and beyond.
Europe’s biggest carriers, including Lufthansa, Ryanair, British Airways and easyJet, will be attending the event to negotiate their future route networks.
This week: Air France to close Joon brand; Delta orders 15 more A220s, supersonic aircraft developer closes $100m funding round, Germania explores financing options and more.
