Part of the Vantage Airport Group network since 2007, the airport has been transformed into a place of pride for Bahamians and a warm, welcoming facility for millions of visitors every year. And air service to Nassau continues to grow with Frontier Airlines launching flights in November 2014.
Fort St. John residents enjoy the highest disposable income of any city in British Columbia, 16 per cent above the provincial average. Nationally, Fort St. John ranks among the top 20 Canadian cities with the highest disposable incomes. This can be explained by its youthful and energetic community with a median age of 30.6 years.
Canada has long been a seasonal market from Dublin, but this winter the airport will boast two new year-round scheduled services to Toronto. Irish carrier Aer Lingus will operate Dublin-Toronto up to four times per week while Air Canada’s leisure brand Air Canada rouge will fly three times per week between the two cities.
The first European operator of the new Boeing 787-9, Virgin Atlantic will deploy its aircraft on routes from London Heathrow to Boston from October 28, 2014; Washington from December 17, 2014, Newark from January 19, 2015 and New York from February 28, 2015.
Southwest Airlines’ vice president for network planning and performance, Andrew Watterson, reveals to our sister magazine, Routes News, what travellers can look forward to in the coming months.
A recent economic impact study reveals just how powerful the airport economic engine is for the Thomson Nicola region of British Columbia, a popular year-round tourism destination and a growing centre for educational excellence.
Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport (MBJ) is set to welcome nine additional weekly flights during the 2014-2015 cruise season, as UK-headquartered Thomson Cruises stations one of its four vessels at Montego Bay’s north coast port.
This year’s World Routes is set to be the biggest and the best ever, according to Chicago Department of Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino, who has worked tirelessly with her team and partners over the past five years to bring the event to the USA for only the second time.
Chicago’s 200 unique neighbourhoods, representing more than 100 countries, show the true value of global air connectivity and mean the city is a great example of the value airline service can have on a city and region's economy.
Don Welsh, chief executive officer of Choose Chicago, the official destination and marketing organisation for Chicago, is confident that “the most American city in the US” will wow World Routes delegates.
Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation, Rosemarie Andolino, talks to Joe Bates for our sister magazine, Routes News, about her delight at hosting World Routes and the economic benefits of new services to the Windy City.
Hosting World Routes was a positive experience for Las Vegas, location for the 2013 event with new air services already coming to fruition and more on the cards.
Qantas previously served Vancouver as an extension of its flights to San Francisco on a short season basis from summer 2006 through the winter 2007/2008 schedule. Through this period the carrier offered 37,900 seats in and out of the Canadian city.
The popularity of the airline’s service between Auckland and Los Angeles will see the airline step up frequency next year from twice daily to three times a day on three days of the week, while also extending the duration of its peak season capacity increase to Vancouver.
Like much of Icelandair’s existing North American network the destination will be served to support business and leisure demand in and out of Iceland as well as to provide new connectivity options for US travellers into the wider European market via the carrier’s Keflavik International Airport hub.
The 469-seat A380 will substitute a smaller Boeing 747-400 on the five London – San Francisco services boosting weekly capacity by just under 20 per cent. All nine other weekly rotations will continue to be served using the smaller Jumbos which are configured in either 299- or 337-seat arrangements.
United began operations in Costa Rica in 1990 and from December 19, 2014 will offer 64 weekly non-stop services between San Jose Juan Santamaría International Airport and four United US hubs (Houston, Newark, Chicago and Washington Dulles) and between Liberia International Airport and Chicago, Houston and Newark.
As Delta Air Lines’ expansion continues unabated and connecting traffic flows begin to shift toward this Pacific Northwest city, it is becoming increasingly clear that the industry is witnessing something that hasn’t been seen in a long time in the airline industry — a US legacy carrier developing a new airport hub from the ground up.
UK carrier Virgin Atlantic Airways is to suspend flights to Cape Town, Mumbai, Tokyo and Vancouver as it instead looks to strengthen its transatlantic partnership with shareholder Delta Air Lines. The latest network changes are part of an ongoing network review and business recovery plan to return the carrier to long-term profitability.
Condor will provide 518 seats per week to Portland and Providence including a Business Class offering using a Boeing 767-300 configured in three-class with 18 Business Class, 35 Premium Economy and 206 Economy seats. The Portland service will mark the return of flights to Oregon’s largest city from Frankfurt, a route previously served by Lufthansa up until September 2009.
The new Aer Lingus Regional operation will launch on October 23, 2014 and will be flown with 13 weekly services with two flights every day except Saturday when there will be just a single rotation. The carrier expects to carry up to 70,000 customers annually on the new route.
