A number OF airlines including Aer Lingus have announced the cancellation of flights to and from London today and tomorrow as heavy snow is expected to fall in the area.Aer Lingus says that some of its services today between Dublin, Cork, London Heathrow and London Gatwick airports are affected.Sixteen of tomorrow’s flights have been cancelled by the airline and those include flights between London and Belfast and Shannon. The airline says that passengers affected by the cancellations can reschedule their flight or cancel their booking online. The list of affected flights... 

Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of the Seychelles, today announced details of its new direct flights from Mah? to Abu Dhabi.This follows last week’s announcement that Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, would form a strategic partnership by taking a 40 per cent stake in the airline, Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE said in a press release. Complementing Etihad Airways’ existing four weekly services from Abu Dhabi to Mah?, March 12 will see Air Seychelles inaugurate two weekly return services on the... 

For the first time since 2006, the flights will link the university city and the Channel Island every Saturday from mid-May until mid-September.The new route will be run by the Channel Islands-based airline, Blue Islands.David de Carteret, from Jersey Tourism, said it was an excellent opportunity for Jersey to market itself.  Read More →

Spirit Airlines announced Wednesday that will add three-day-a-week service between Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport    beginning May 3.Spirit (NASDAQ: SAVE), which is based in Miramar, said it would offer $28.79 fares each way through its website Wednesday and Thursday for the Myrtle Beach flights. The Myrtle Beach area is known for its golf courses and the airline sees a demand for leisure passengers to that area.The airline said the flights would be on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.Spirit’s largest hub its at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood... 

Atlantic Canadian travellers may need to make alternate plans to visit the Big Apple.American Airlines will no longer offer service to John F. Kennedy International Airport from Halifax as of April 3, citing continued restructuring under the Chapter 11 protection it received last year.We’d been serving the market since October 2009 but, over time, it just didn’t develop as we had hoped,said Ed Martelle, spokesman for the airline based in Fort Worth, Texas, in an email Tuesday. The decision leaves United Airlines, which includes the former Continental Airlines, as the only... 

AirAsia X will double its frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Tokyo Haneda route to meet demand in the Asia-Pacific region.The airline will increase its flights from three to six times weekly from March 23.It said this was to service its core markets in Australasia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea after demand for the route rebounded with healthy two-way traffic.AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani said the airline had seen a steady increase in passenger traffic and yield from the Haneda route since its launch on Dec 9, 2010.With our wide network and strong brand affinity... 

Budget airlines Jetstar will stop flying between Macau and Singapore starting February 6 after the number of passengers dropped significantly last year, the local aviation regulator confirmed.The Macau Civil Aviation Authority (AACM) told Portuguese-language newspaper Tribuna de Macau that Jetstar would drop the Singapore route for commercial reasons. Last year the low-cost airline carried about 79,600 people in this route, 12,500 less than in 2010. This 13.8 percent drop took the passenger figures below the 82,100 registered by Jetstar in 2008, the first year it flew to Macau. Despite... 

Indonesia’s national airline, Garuda Indonesia, is to launch a third daily flight between Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta on 19 February 2012.The new service will operate using a Boeing 737-800NG aircraft, which features Garuda Indonesia’s new ‘Nature’s Wing’ livery, signature interior and upgraded on-board services such as individual touch-screen LCD TVs with Audio-Video on Demand entertainment systems. Risnandi, Senior General Manager, Area Asia, Garuda Indonesia, said,As a regional hub for both business and leisure travellers, Malaysia is a very important destination for... 

France said Friday it was planning resumption of flights to Libyan capital, Tripoli, in near future.Secretary of State for Transport Thierry Mariani was quoted by French media as saying he would pay an official visit to Tripoli on Sunday to discuss resumption of flights which have been suspended for long years. Mariani will be leading a delegation of French airline companies including Air France to guarantee success of his mission.Air France, which stopped flights to Tripoli after an attack against French UTi airplane over the Niger in 1989 killing all 170 people on board, was... 

Dozens of cancelled and delayed flights marked the first 24 hours of the snow blockade at Sofia Airport. Wednesday night the passengers of Wiz Air coming from London and Barcelona landed in Skopje instead of Sofia. AUA flight from Vienna had to return to Schwechat Airport. The passengers of Bulgaria Air coming from Frankfurt, London, Moscow and Brussels were luckier they arrived at Burgas airport and reached Sofia by bus. Most flights departed with serious delays as Olympic Airways waited the record three hours and a half.Sofia Airport works under winter conditions and the runways...