Air Arabia Egypt, a leading low-cost carrier in the region, said it has started direct services to the Turkish city of Istanbul from its main hub in Alexandria.The airline’s inaugural flight to Istanbul took off from Burj Al Arab International Airport on Friday.Roundtrip flights will operate twice... 

Spirit will add daily nonstop service to five new cities from O’Hare International Airport, the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) said in a statement. Spirit will begin multiple daily flights to Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit and New York/LaGuardia on Aug. 18, 2011, and daily service to... 

Russia will ban flights by short-range Tupolev Tu-134, Antonov An-24 and Yakovlev Yak-40 planes as of 2012, ITAR-TASS reports citing the Russian Transportation Ministry.Short-range aircraft are not fitted with a ground proximity warning system. On Thursday, Transportation Minister Igor Levitin held a... 

LAN Airlines launch temporary flight schedule between Australia and Chile until next Monday, 27 June, in response to continuing uncertainty about the volcanic ash cloud in New Zealand airspace.From now until Monday, 27 June, LAN will suspend flight LA 800, its daily Sydney-Auckland-Santiago service.Instead,... 

Facing the certain closure of its biggest employer, the northern community of Bathurst is looking to its airport to become an economic hub for the region in the near future.As Xstrata Zinc anticipates winding down its operations sometime in 2013, the Northern New Brunswick Airport Authority is exploring... 

PAL resumed regular flight service to Australia resumed on Wednesday following a single cancelation on Tuesday due to volcanic ash that enveloped the skies near Melbourne.PAL PR 211 Manila-Sydney-Melbourne took off at 9:20 a.m. using a PAL Airbus A340 aircraft. Its 140 passengers include those supposed... 

Continental Airlines said Wednesday that it will resume twice-weekly flights between Guam and Sendai, Japan, on Oct. 2. Sendai’s airport was closed after the March 11 earthquake that struck Japan. The airport reopened April 13. The Continental flights mark the first resumption of regular service... 

Qatar Airways is looking to add a second Australian city to its current Melbourne-only schedule, but says that Sydney Airport’s high cost and nightly curfew weigh against it.Speaking with AAP’s Jordan Chong, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker talked up the strong yields and fewer restrictions... 

Vietnam’s flag carrier will flights to Britain starting in December, marking the first direct air link between the two nations which are expanding ties, the airline said in a statement.State-owned Vietnam Airlines did not say how many flights would initially operate to London’s Gatwick airport,... 

The impact on Australia’s transport industry from an ash cloud created by a Chilean volcano intensified Tuesday with Qantas Airways Ltd.Cancelling flights to and from the Pacific nation’s largest city of Sydney.Qantas said it’s possible that flights to Australia’s second-largest...