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Following strong performance of aviation traffic for the first eight months of 2018, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) announced 17 airlines will add 30 new routes by the end of the year. Several of the new routes include Taipei to Ontario, CA, Taipei to Chongqing (resumed route), China, Taipei to Jakarta, Indonesia, all to be […]

October 16 is a date that will be remembered in Argentina as the day the commercial aviation market changed forever. Norwegian Air Argentina, the local branch of the European holding, started operations with three flights onto its first two routes: Buenos Aires to Cordoba and Buenos Aires to Mendoza. Norwegian’s first domestic flight was operated […]

Earlier this week, AirlineGeeks reported that Larnaca-based Cobalt was experiencing financial trouble. The airline’s website has just been updated to inform passengers that all future flights have been suspended indefinitely. The airline’s main stockholder is AJ Cyprus, a company owned by Avic Joy Air, a Chinese company. With 49 percent of the carrier being controlled […]

Sweepstakes are very common in the industry as airlines will often include all-expenses-paid vacations to luxurious locales throughout the world. JetBlue just announced its latest sweepstakes that also includes an all-expenses-paid trip for the lucky winners, the only catch is that the winner won’t know where they’re going until check-in and it won’t be a […]

Flightstats.com has been keeping track of airlines and airports punctuality and tardiness, ranking them in terms of there performance in those areas.  Airlines were classified into global airlines, major airlines, regional airlines and low-cost carriers, with SriLankan Airlines being the most punctual global airline of September 2018. The on-time arrival rate was 91.37 percent. Referring to […]

An Air India Express 737 en route from the southern Indian city of Trichy to Dubai on Friday had to land in Mumbai three hours into its flight after Trichy Airport officials reported that the aircraft ‘might have’ hit an airport perimeter wall prior to takeoff. BBC News reported that the aircraft, operated as Air […]

At the L.E.A.P. conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Air New Zealand unveiled its first foray into the world of game design with its “multiplayer spatial computing gaming experience.” Although the name is a mouthful, the premise behind the gaming system is to use advanced virtual reality technology to promote tourism to New Zealand. The […]

Trade war tensions with China are rising in the U.S. as President Donald Trump creates new barriers for Chinese trade. While this has been occurring, Cyprus has kept its doors wide open to Chinese investment and trade, with plans to double bilateral trade to more than $1 billion, equivalent to about 5 percent of Cyprus’ […]

American Airlines has begun instructing their agents to follow a new policy when rebooking disrupted passengers. Their new policy will affect mostly passengers booked in economy class. The new policy is to not book disrupted passengers on flights on competing airlines, according to the Chicago Tribune. This could leave passengers in an indefinite wait for […]

On Oct, 7, 1919, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was founded by eight Dutch businessmen and became one of the first commercial airline companies. The first flight took place just over seven months later on May 17, 1920, between Croydon, U.K. and Amsterdam, Netherlands on a leased De Haviland DH-16 registered as G-EALU with two British […]