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Amsterdam Airport Introduces Robot Guide to Stop Passengers Missing Flights

Amadeus Selling Platform welcomes airport express tickets

Travellers are now much closer to a door-to-door experience as Amadeus Selling Platform’s latest module enables travel agents to sell airport express tickets as they book a flight or hotel. Heathrow Express is the first to launch this tool with Airtrain in Brisbane to follow in 2016. For...

Upbeat Assessment for London Ashford Airport Expansion

More than 60 pre-commencement conditions attached to the planning permission for a runway extension at London Ashford Airport have been successfully discharged and work to lengthen the runway will begin early in the New Year. An upbeat assessment of the multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Kent...

CAAC Plans 1.3 Billion Yuan Subsidies for Small Airports in 2016

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued its 2016 subsidy policy for 152 small civilian airports, which will receive subsidies amounting to 1.31 billion yuan next year, according to an announcement released on CAAC's website on Thursday. According to the announcement, 152 small airports are among the beneficiaries and each will get a subsidy ranging from 1.11 million yua...

Again?! Flights Between Oz and Bali Disrupted by Lombok Volcano Ash

Just when we thought it was safe to travel again and proceed with normal flight bookings, volcanic ash spewed from Lombok's Mt. Barujari (Rinjani) has got some flights cancelled again after being quiet for the past couple weeks. Both Virgin Australia and Jetstar have announced cancellations on their websites. Virgin cancelled all flights in and out of Bali and a 9:00 a.m. flight this mor...

French Cities Say Airport Sale a Ticket to Weakening Paris Power

France's provincial cities reckon they're being held back by an airport system that focuses two-thirds of passenger traffic on Paris and denies them long-haul routes. Their claims are about to be put to the test. The governm'ent is gearing up to sell 60 percent stakes in Nice-Cote d'Azur and Lyon airports, France's third and fourth largest, after disposing of Toulouse-B...

Runway Protesters Cause Traffic Chaos at London's Heathrow Airport

Activists opposed to the expansion of London's Heathrow Airport blocked an approach tunnel on Thursday by chaining themselves to a parked vehicle, bringing traffic chaos to Europe's busiest airport. Police said they had arrested five people and removed three vehicles from the tunnel, used by cars and taxis to access three of Heathrow's five terminals. Heathrow could be given...

Gorno-Altaisk airport lodges one-million-rouble suit against Transaero

Gorno-Altaisk’s airport on Wednesday lodged a suit to a sum of 1.07 million roubles (16,304 U.S. dollars) against bankrupt Transaero air company, according to materials published on the website of the St. Petersburg Court of Arbitration on Thursday. No further details are available. Transaero’s aggregate debts to creditors, along with leasing, are 250 billion roubles, or 3.8 bill...

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French carriers resume Mali flights following Bamako attack

Air France (AF, Paris CDG) and Aigle Azur (ZI, Paris Orly) have resumed scheduled services to Bamako following an Islamist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel last week which killed twenty-two people including six Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) crew that had been staying there. Speaking to The Telegraph, a Malian hotel source, who was present when the attack occurred, said the gunm...

Taiwan to Start Using Bomb Detection Dogs on Aircraft

Starting Thursday, Taiwan will step up its efforts to improve flight safety by employing sniffer dogs to check all aircraft departing for Europe, the Aviation Police Bureau said Wednesday. The new measure will start with the first EVA Airways to leave for Paris on Thursday, as Taiwan seeks to improve flight safety in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, the bureau...

Virgin Australia to start Christchurch-Rarotonga flights

Virgin Australia is making a smart utilisation play with a new back-of-the-clock winter weekend flight between Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands beginning in seven months’ time. Tickets are now on sale with an introductory lead-in fare of NZ$299. The airline will fly the roundtrip service once weekly between June 25 and October 8 2016 using...

French, United States Airport, Transport Workers Under Investigation for Islamic Radicalization

Paris airport employees are among the subjects of French investigations into Islamic radicalization in the country, CNN reported Wednesday. Public transport operators are also being investigated. The investigations began a "couple of years" before the Nov. 13 Paris assaults for which the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility, a French counterterrorism source told CNN. Am...

Spanish Ghost Airport "Paid Ryanair 420,000 Pounds to Fly There"

A "ghost airport" in Spain that waited four years for its first commercial flight has been accused of paying Ryanair, now its sole airline, EUR600,000 (420,000 pounds) a year to fly there. Castellon was finished in 2011 at a cost of more than 100 million pounds but had not seen a single passenger through its gates until March this year when the Irish low-cost airline arrived...

Air Canada Adds Seasonal Vancouver-Dublin Flights for Summer 2016

Air Canada today announced a further, strategic expansion of its Vancouver hub with the addition of the only non-stop flights to Dublin, Ireland next summer. This new seasonal route follows the recent announcement of several enhancements at the airline’s Vancouver hub for 2016, including new transborder services to Chicago, San Jose and San Diego, double daily flights to London Heathro...

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Hong Kong Airlines officially moves into Terminal 2

Hong Kong Airlines’ check-in counters at Hong Kong International Airport’s Terminal 1 have officially relocated to the new Terminal 2. From now on, passengers travelling with Hong Kong Air...