Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention, the Civil Aviation Ministry on Monday overturned its decision to suspend air operations to the Kashmir valley for the period during which repair work was to be carried out at the Srinagar airport. The air operations would continue from Avantipur... 

Private airline company PT LionAir is seeking the government’s permission to add extra flights to cope with the surge in passengers a week before and after the Idul Fitri holiday which falls on Sept. 10.Edward Sirait, Lion’s director of general affairs, said the additional flights were needed to... 

TRAVELLING between Sydney and Ballina will become even easier from December, with five extra Jetstar flights a week, adding an extra 92,000 seats to the route every year.Virgin Blue added two extra flights a week earlier this month, and will introduce another flight starting in September. Between the... 

At the same time the airline increases its weekly flight from Oslo to Marrakech from one to two departures a week and introduces a twice-weekly offer from Stockholm and Copenhagen to Marrakech.Morocco is a beautiful and exciting country. Our direct flight from Oslo to Marrakech was launched with great... 

Australian airlines Virgin Blue and the United Arab Emirates-based Etihad Airways Thursday agreed to operate joint flight services between Abu Dhabi and Australia next year.Etihad and Virgin Blue’s international arm V Australia will operate 27 weekly services between Abu Dhabi and Australia,... 

French private airline Aigle Azur plans to resume direct flights to Iraq in October, targeting French companies chasing huge business opportunities in the troubled country, local media reported Thursday.When people watch the news and when they talk about Iraq, they have a picture of a country in which... 

ZAMBEZI Airlines has launched four weekly flights from Dar es Salaam to Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The flights will be operated using the same aircraft with a stop-over in Lusaka. In addition, Zambezi has also launched one weekly flight from Dar es Salaam to Blantyre in Malawi again... 

Hainan Airlines Company is set to launch regular non stop flights on Hefei-Singapore route on August 29, with travel time of about five hours and 20 minutes.The new service is the first mid long haul international flights at the Hefei Luogang International Airport.The Hefei-Singapore flights will be... 

Travellers will soon be able to travel Garuda Indonesia direct to ‘the Land of the Rising Sun’ from Jakarta as the airline announced direct flights from Jakarta-Tokyo-Jakarta effective 31 August 2010.The new direct flights are part of our route expansion and a response to the growing demands, mostly... 

Emirates is to launch Airbus A380 services to the vibrant city of Hong Kong. Starting on 1 October 2010, Emirates’ A380 will operate daily from Dubai as EK384 via Bangkok with the return flight operating as EK385.Emirates has a total of 12 A380s in service with 78 on order and Hong Kong will become...