Airline profits are ready to return to growth on the back of lower oil and expanding economies, IATA predicts.
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Avianca Brazil files for bankruptcy but keeps flying
The move follows the repossession of much of its leased fleet, hitting air services in a huge market Norwegian is starting to break into.
Read More »Finnair’s Asia traffic in surprise decline
Routes to Asia make up half of the airline’s traffic measured in available seat kilometres, so why the decline?
Read More »Vietnam gets $45m loan for new destinations
The loan will help Vietnam spread the extremely high growth in visitor numbers it is seeing to other towns and beaches.
Read More »airBaltic targets investors for expansion
An independent assessment is being made to see if a stock exchange listing is viable, the CEO revealed today.
Read More »Aviator Alliance Airport may go up for sale
Sources say that Aviator’s owner Accent has mandated DNB to sell the Nordic ground handling company.
Read More »Turkish Airlines to start flights to Lapland
Turkish Airlines’ direct flights from Istanbul will bring the first-ever business-class seats to Rovaniemi.
Read More »Lufthansa unveils ‘panorama lounge’ at FRA
The new Panorama Lounge, which increases Terminal 1 lounge capacity by 40%, has a view of rolling aircraft.
Read More »Europcar partners up with SAS
The worldwide car hire giant “shares the same sense of customer satisfaction” as the Scandinavian carrier.
Read More »Disneyland Paris splurges on Marvel attraction
Disney is investing €2bn in an expansion plan to deliver “immersive” Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars attractions.
Read More »More people fly in Norway, less in Sweden
Numbers just released for the month of November show a declining trend in passenger numbers in Sweden.
Read More »ATR 72 suffers violent birdstrike
The aircraft operated by Precision Air hit a flock of birds just as it was landing at an airport in Tanzania.
Read More »What next in Travelport’s “new era”?
US equity firms will take the travel tech company private – but the deal may mean a round of cost cutting for Travelport.
Read More »SAS EuroBonus gets two tweaks
From now on, points can be shared in groups of family and friends, and there’s a new ultimate tier, Lifetime Gold.
Read More »Geothermal ‘pool of god’ opens on Iceland beach
Designed on three levels over a cliff at Langisandur beach in Akranes, the new attraction is a hotspot in all weathers.
Read More »New Park Inn at OSL aimed at business guests
With lots of meeting rooms, Park Inn by Radisson Oslo Airport Hotel West is Radisson’s third at the airport, ninth in Oslo, 23rd in Norway.
Read More »Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand strikes
Separate strikes called to coincide with Christmas are causing uproar among management and passengers alike.
Read More »Egypt angry at Dane’s nude pyramid photo-shoot
Even climbing the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is illegal, let alone appearing to have sex on it.
Read More »US investors circling to buy Travelport
A consortium including activist investment firm Elliot Management is reportedly in talks to acquire the GDS.
Read More »Scandic Hotels expands to Munich
The Nordic hotel operator has signed up New York architects for a new building in a redeveloping industrial area.
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