Archive for the 'Aviation News' Category

Cebu Pacific ranks 4th in Asia’s top 10 budget airline list

Cebu Pacific (CEB) now ranks 4th among Asia’s top low-cost carriers. This was stated by Smart Travel Asia’s Top 10 Budget Airlines of 2009 poll. SmartTravelAsia.com, Asia’s leading online travel magazine with one million readers worldwide, revealed the results of their May to July 2009 Best in Travel survey recently. Low cost carriers were rated [...]

Amadeus Now Distributing AirAsia Flights

Amadeus has formed a partnership with AirAsia, which for the first time, will enable Amadeus-subscribing travel agencies worldwide to book AirAsia flights in the same way they would for a full-service carrier. More than 102,200 travel agencies worldwide using the Amadeus Global Distribution System (GDS) for reservations will now be able to book flights for [...]

First Raiders’ Touchdown of the Season Goes to AirAsia

Partnership with Oakland Raiders brings flight, from Kuala Lumpur to Oakland in Celebration of Raiders’ Season Opener Against the San Diego Chargers on September 14, 2009 For one day only, AirAsia, the world’s best low-cost carrier is bringing its Raider’s branded A340 aircraft to US soil. The aircraft is named ‘Xcellence’, to match the Oakland [...]

AirAsia launches discounted Fares Promotion

AirAsia has launched a new promotion with flights from Melbourne, Perth and the Gold Coast of Australia to Malaysia available from just A$119 one way. From there, or for those already in Asia, the low cost airline is offering an assortment of Chinese destinations from Kuala Lumpur including one way fares to Hong Kong from [...]

Etihad Airways launches Chicago Flights

Etihad Airways has launched flights from its Abu Dhabi home-base to the American city of Chicago. Flight EY151 took-off on Wednesday 2 September, landing 14 hours later at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. For the inaugural flight, Etihad operated its Airbus A340-600 aircraft in the iconic Formula 1 livery, with O’Hare airport fire trucks providing the [...]

Boeing demonstrates commitment to dynamic market at Asian Aerospace 2009

Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, will present several key elements at Asian Aerospace 2009. Boeing will spotlight its commercial airplane family, with several of its Commercial Airplanes business unit experts speaking at the conference sessions and will conduct a pair of media briefings focusing on the current market as well as Boeing products and [...]

Kingfisher Airlines now offers Kolkata – Bangkok Flights

India’s Kingfisher Airlines has launched flights between Kolkata and Bangkok. After London, Colombo, Dhaka and Dubai, Bangkok is the fifth international destination on the international route network of Kingfisher Airlines. Flights are timed with flight IT 021 departing from Kolkata, at 11:20 am and reaching Bangkok at 3:15 pm, local time. The flight departs Bangkok [...]