Posted by- Neelam Mathews
Dec 30, 2011
Emirates starts flights to Dublin Airport in January 2012. The new route will expand direct links in the region and its onward connections into India, Africa, South East Asia, Australasia and China. It was the additional long-haul capacity provided by new boarding gates at Terminal 2 which clinched the deal, according to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).
The carrier is looking at narrowbodies for its revised network strategy. The short-haul model will then form the backbone of an expansion in India, East Africa and the Indian Ocean.
As it builds its presence in the Middle East market, Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated a three times weekly new route between its Addis Ababa base and Muscat using a B737-700 on December 27. Ethiopian Airlines expects to generate additional passengers wishing to fly onto other destinations in Africa and is providing connections to and from cities such as Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Entebbe and Lusaka.
All Nipon Airways (ANA) has revealed that Seattle and San Jose are to become its first US destinations for B787 services - two cities is not does not currently operate to.
Tiger Airways is to launch direct flights from Singapore to Dhaka from March 2012.
Delta Air Lines is expanding its flight schedules for at New York's LaGuardia Airport by 60% and adding services to major destinations such as Miami, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver and Houston as it seeks to make the gateway a new domestic hub.
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