China Southern, the Guangzhou-based airline that’s the largest in Asia and the fifth largest in the world, is set to fly to Perth later this year, Australian Business Traveller has learned.It’s a key business route, with Western Australia’s Deputy Premier Kim Hames highlighting that... 

Finnair’s Asian strategy has worked extremely well. The Singapore route will strongly support our core strategy as well as serving our main target group of customers travelling between Asia and Europe on business,’ Finnair’s chief executive officer Mika Vehvilainen said, according to a company... 

Oklahoma’s growing bioscience sector helped persuade United Airlines to launch a nonstop daily flight between Oklahoma City and San Francisco.Beginning Aug. 29, flight 6241 will depart Will Rogers World Airport at 7:14 a.m. and arrive in San Francisco at 8:50 a.m. The return flight 6240 will depart... 

Virgin Blue continues to pursue its international ambitions with a new agreement to share flights between its international arm V Australia and US carrier Delta.Under the codeshare arrangement, passengers on V Australia will be able to book and transfer onto connecting Delta flights from Los Angeles... 

The head of budget long-haul carrier AirAsia X said the eurozone debt crisis would not prevent the airline expanding in Europe and that he hoped to open a route to New York next year.Tony Fernandes said he would absolutely not  rethink plans to begin new flights into Russia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic,... 

AirAsiaX, the Asian long-haul, low-cost, airline has a lightning-fast sale on flights to Kuala Lumpur. Book by Wednesday to snap up the discounted fares – London Stansted to Kuala Lumpur from £199 one-way including taxes. Travel between 1 July and 10 November 2011.From Kuala Lumpur, AirAsiaX has... 

Singapore Airlines A380 flights will resume to Melbourne and Sydney after earlier grounding the aircraft for precautionary checks following the explosion of a Qantas A380 Rolls Royce engine on a flight from Singapore yesterday.Singapore Airlines initially indicated that A380 flights would continue as... 

The federal government has negotiated a temporary increase in the number of weekly plane flights between Australia and China.The extra flights will be made available to cater for an expected spike in demand between November and the end of February 2011.During the past year more than 410,000 Chinese visitors... 

QANTAS is considering tapping into the booming Brazilian economy by flying either to Sao Paulo or the popular tourist destination of Rio de Janiero.Any decision by the airline to launch flights to Brazil is likely to result in it dropping services to Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, because of... 

Etihad Airways is celebrating its recent route expansion by offering cheap flights to Australia.The airline is joining forces with Virgin Blue to offer new flights to key destinations such as Adelaide and Cairns. There will also be a number of additional services to New Zealand as part of the expansion. To...