Tiger Airways, the Singapore-based carrier part-owned by the family of the late Tony Ryan, is working with Australia’s aviation regulator towards the resumption of domestic flights in the country by early August, a source said yesterday.Its flights were grounded more than three weeks ago on safety... 

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,... 

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... 

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... 

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, this week celebrates its fifth anniversary of non-stop services between Abu Dhabi and Casablanca with the announcement that it will increase capacity on the route by adding a fifth weekly flight.The airline commenced its operation to the... 

Etihad CEO James Hogan has reaffirmed the airline’s desire to increase its flights to Canada in a speech to businessmen in Toronto.Hogan made his comments in an address to the Toronto Board of Trade when he told them that services to Canada would increase if if regulatory access was eased.There... 

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...