NewsWeek WORLD NEWS Delta to boost international links


ISTANBUL MAYOR Kadir Topbas has approved the con- struction of a third airport situated to the west of the city. Located on the European side of the city, and planned to have a far greater capacity than Istanbul’s main Ataturk gateway, it will be Turkey’s biggest-ever airport.


LOW-COST airline Iceland Express is to start flying from its Reykjavik hub to Dublin and Belfast in the second half of next year. Also able to offer non-stop transatlantic flight connections from Reykjavik to both New York and Boston, the carrier notes that its fleet of B737-700 aircraft is well suited to cargo transport.


BRITISH AIRWAYS is to inaugurate three times a week B737 services between the UK’s Gatwick airport in south- ern England and the Moroccan city of Marrakech on 27 March.


CHINA LOGISTICS Group, a US cargo agent doing business in China through its majority ownership of Shandong Jiajia International Freight & Forwarding, saw its third-quarter revenue rise by 19.7 percent year-on-year to reach US$6.9 million, largely the result of additional activ- ity as the economic environment picked up.


KUWAIT-BASED Jazeera Airways is set to launch three times a week A320 services to Sohaj in Egypt on 1 December. It will be the airline’s fifth non-stop route to Egypt – adding to Sharm El Sheikh, Alexandria, Luxor and Assiut.


INDIAN DOMESTIC CARRIER IndiGo is to inaugurate A320 services from Delhi and Chennai to Coimbatore in southern India. Both services are scheduled to start tomor- row (30 November).


DELTAAIR LINES says itwill make a priority of expanding its international flight network next year. The area of most significant


growth is expected to be Asia, with Delta having applied last week to theUSDepartment of Transportation to begin five times aweekB777-200ERser- vices from Detroit to Beijing, as well as a daily B767-300ER connecting service between Guangzhou andTokyo-Narita. Delta is also planning to


resume B777-200ER/LR ser- vices, on a twice a week basis, to Shanghai from Atlanta in June next year, a routeing that was suspended in the hard times of 2009.


LIONEL Smith, managing director of Dubai-based Air Cargo Integrators, is also CEO of a new Kenya-based carrier, D Connection. “We are flying ad hoc cargo


services out of Nairobi,” he explained. A 14-ton capacity B737-


200QC (Quick Change) air- craft began flying in the first week of October, operating on behalf of global concerns such


Furthermore, from April


the service betweenNarita and Manila is to be upgraded. Across the Atlantic, Delta’s


focus is on London Heathrow, with twice-daily B767-300ER services from Boston and a daily flight from Miami set to inaugurate on 26March. Delta’s services to Iceland


are also to be expanded. On 2 June, it will launch a new B757-200 route linking New York JFK with Reykjavik’s Keflavik International airport. Delta has also confirmed


that its B757-200 operation between Pittsburgh and Paris is to be improved to a daily frequency in the summer timetable next year and the


as DHL and Agility, as well as some major South African freight forwarders. D Connection maintains


regional links to destinations such as Lusaka, Mogadishu, Juba, Dar es Salaam and Lilongwe, for example. “We’re trying to get as


many airlines as we can to work with us on interlines and with block space agreements,” Smith remarked, although the


carrier will add an extra daily flight on its Boston - Paris, New York JFK - Paris and Seattle - Amsterdam routes. All these new US - Europe


routes will be operated within the scope of the airline’s


D Connection seeks partners on services out of Kenya


philosophy is to be a “totally neutral carrier doing a hub and spoke operation”. He is also hoping to move


up to a B737-300 freighter, an aircraft type that would offer the company benefits in terms of cost-efficiencies and a pay- load increase to around 20 tonnes a flight.


Smith outlines the idea of a “totally neutral carrier”


transatlantic alliance with Air France-KLMand Alitalia. Finally, the African market


will see the launch of a B767 service between Atlanta and Luanda in Angola via Dakar on 20 January.


29 November 2010


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