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Cubana Airlines Opens Route between Holguin and Santo Domingo

Cubana Airlines will start direct flights from the Frank Pais International Airport, of the city of Holguin in eastern Cuba, to Santo Domingo, capital city of the Dominican Republic, according to company officials. Violeta Sayas, commercial specialist of the airline in Holguin said, in an exclusi...

World’s First Solar Airport No Longer Pays Electricity Bills

Cochin International Airport, the world’s first 100 percent solar airport, is generating so much power from its massive solar array that the airport no longer pays for electricity. “We wanted to be independent of the electricity utility grid,” Jose Thomas, the airport’s ge...

Moscow and Cairo agree to resume flights as soon as possible

Direct flights between Russia and Egypt are about to resume, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. They will start shortly in accordance with air safety, said Lavrov after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry. According to Lavrov, Cairo responded positively to Russia’s recommendations for airport and flight security. "We have agreed that measures will...

Let London City Airport expand and we’ll all enjoy the benefits

UK airports had their busiest ever summer last year, collectively handling 78m passengers, and the indicators are that 2015 as a whole was the busiest year on record. London City Airport certainly had a record-breaking year, with 18 per cent growth in passengers to 4.3m. More people than ever are taking to the skies and generating wealth for the UK economy in doing so – passengers travell...

Badger stops plane from landing at Newquay Airport

A badger on an airport runway forced a passenger plane to abort its landing. The flight from Gatwick to Newquay was an estimated 300ft (90m) off the ground when the wild animal was spotted. Passenger Pete Atkinson said there was a tense five-minute gap between the aircraft climbing sharply away from the runway and the pilot announcing the badger's presence. The airport said it was a c...

World’s Shortest Commercial Flights: Westray-Papa Westray by Loganair

One of the world’s shortest commercial flights is Loganair’s Westray and Papa Westray flight, which takes anywhere from 75 to 180 seconds, depending on wind conditions. The record for the fastest flight is 53 seconds. The distance between Westray Airport (WRY) and Papa Westray Airport (PPW) is slightly more than a mile, and standing at one airport, you ca...

Ethiopian Airlines Cargo relaunches cargo flights at Brussels Airport

Ethiopian Airlines Cargo is set to operate 12 full cargo flights a week out of Brussels Airport starting from 26 March. In recent weeks, the airport has been conducting intensive talks with the carrier about returning to Brussels Airport after the Federal Government had inked a new bilateral agreement with Ethiopia, enabling the carrier to undertake direct flights from Belgium to Dubai, Shanghai a...

Lease deal with Adria Airways supports Air Serbia network growth

Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, has signed an agreement to lease a Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft from Adria Airways to support its growing network. The aircraft, which is configured with 86 seats and will be leased between the busy summer months of June and September 2016, will allow Air Serbia to expand its flight network with non-stop flights to Hamburg in Germa...

Emirates adds A380 aircraft to Vienna route

Emirates will operate one of its two scheduled daily flights into Vienna International Airport with its A380 aircraft. The airline, which has carried almost three million passengers on the Dubai-Vienna route since it was launched on 1st May 2004, will fly its three-class A380 with 519 seats – 14 in First Class, 76 in Business Class and 429 in Economy – on one of its daily services t...

Bird strike leaves huge dent in passenger jet as it lands at Heathrow

This is the huge dent left in the nose of a passenger jet after a bird struck the plane as it landed at Heathrow Airport. The EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 was approaching the runway following a flight from Cairo when it collided with the bird, leaving behind blood stains and feathers. The aircraft, registration SU-GDZ, which had 71 passengers on board managed to land safely...

Abu Dhabi Airports signs agreement with Aéroports de Paris

Abu Dhabi Airports has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aéroports de Paris (ADP) linking Al Bateen Executive Airport with Le Bourget Airport. The MoU was signed by Abdul Majeed Al Khoori, chief financial officer of Abu Dhabi Airports and Isabelle Dreysse, deputy managing director of Paris-Le Bourget, during Abu Dhabi Air Expo 2016. The agreement will pave...

British Airways and Iran Agree to 42 Flights a Week

Iranian State Media announced this week that flights between Iran and the United Kingdom will resume, with British Airways planning for the flights to begin in July 2016. The two countries signed an agreement this week that details that number of flights on a weekly basis. The announcement comes shortly after Iran made an international agreement about its nuclear program. In Decembe...

Emirates Presses Pause on Panama Hub Plan Until More Agreements in Place

Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, put its plan to establish a hub in Panama connecting cities across Latin America with Asia on hold because government accords permitting cooperation with a key local carrier took too long to put in place. Dubai-based Emirates has secured approvals from only three or four of the 13 countries from which it needs backing for a wide-rangin...

Bryan Adams: Cairo Airport Officials 'Defaced' My Vintage Guitar

"Summer of '69" may have been the best days of Bryan Adams' life, but the Canadian singer isn't too happy about the spring of 2016. His entire collection of instruments — including his prized vintage guitar — was "defaced" by customs officials at an airport in Egypt, the singer told NBC News on Friday. Adams said he was traveling through Cairo Inte...

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