Airlines
ETIHAD ADDS SANA’A TO NETWORK
Etihad Airways will launch direct flights to Sana'a, Yemen's political and commercial capital on Sept. 1. Sana'a will be the airline's eighth destination on the Arabian Peninsula beyond Abu Dhabi, joining Bahrain, Dammam, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat and Riyadh. Flights to Sana'a will operate four times a week. The route will be operated by a two-class Airbus A320 aircraft with 16 seats in Pearl Business Class and 120 seats in Coral Economy Class....
WESTJET, AA LAUNCH CODESHARE
WestJet begins code-sharing today on American Airlines flights to 16 new cities beyond Dallas-Fort Worth in conjunction with WestJet's new, non-stop service between Calgary and Dallas-Fort Worth launching April 29, 2013. WestJet and American Airlines together will provide three round-trip flights per day between the two cities. The WestJet code has now been added on American Airlines-operated routes connecting through Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque, N.M., Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, N.C., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Jacksonville, Fla., Kansas City, Mo., Orlando, Fla., Miami,...
IATA DELIVERS CHANGE
IATA is restructuring its main divisions and regional operations to better address the needs of its 240 member airlines. Senior management changes were also announced to support the new structure. All changes will take effect from July 1, 2013. A key guiding principle of the restructuring is the concept of "Global Development, Regional Delivery". Tony Tyler, IATA's director general and CEO, explained: "IATA is changing to deliver even greater value to its members. Strengthening our regional structures where we are closest to our members will help us to understand and meet their needs better....
APG MAKES A MOVE
APG CANADA INC. has relocated it headquarters to the Airways Centre complex at Toronto International Airport. APG CANADA is a full partner in the APG WORLD NETWORK for Airline Services. It originally operated as AIRBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL INC., but has been an independent entity for the past year. In its new location, APG CANADA offers an expanded range of outsourced services, known as the APG WORLD PROGRAM. The APG NETWORK, in addition to General Sales Agency, provides such services as access to BSP and ARC, Interline-Electronic-Ticketing, Fares filing and a comprehensive Commercial and...
A DEAL FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
American Airlines and Farelogix have unveiled details of a new, seven-year agreement. The deal will see Farelogix continuing to provide enhancements and support for American's direct connect, a technologically advanced system which enables the sale of American's fares and other products by travel agencies. Cory Garner, managing director of sales operations and distribution for American Airlines, said that: "Using direct connect technology, we can make individually tailored offers possible in real time, transparently, no matter where the customer chooses to shop. Third-party distribution...
ETIHAD PICKS DWM IN THE WEST
Etihad Airways has selected Discover the World Marketing to provide sales and marketing development support in Western Canada, Latin America, and Europe. The new agreement is for representation in Western Canada including Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon as well as Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Croatia, El Salvador, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. In addition the partnerships have been renewed in Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Go to...
A BUNDLE OF UPDATES
WestJet's fare bundles have been live for just over one month now and the carrier is updating agents on them. Effective April 11, 2013, WestJet will move the P fare class to the Econo bundle. This will provide more availability for our guests that are primarily looking for the lowest fare option.á Please note that bookings on P fare class made prior to April 11, 2013, will continue to have the change, cancel and other Flex fare attributes associated to those bookings. As well, WestJet reports that the full reconfiguration of its fleet is almost done. Once complete, all 737s will have 36...
BETTER USE, BETTER NUMBERS
All the airlines in the Lufthansa Group profited in the first quarter of the year from improved capacity steering and, as expected, lifted the utilization of their aircraft in comparison with the year-earlier level. The Lufthansa Group raised the seat load factor in passenger traffic by 1.9 percentage points year-on-year to 76.1%. The cargo load factor rose by 0.6 percentage points to 70.5%. Due to the Group-wide 2.7% reduction in capacity (in terms of available seat kilometres), the number of passengers carried by Lufthansa German Airlines, SWISS and Austrian Airlines in the period from...