News AIRLINES STAND BY CHRISTCHURCH
AirAsia X’s planned April 1 launch of four weekly fl ights from Kuala Lumpur to Christchurch remained unchanged at the time of going to print, Senthil Balan, the airline’s head of route planning and network management told Routes News. “We are defi nitely not an airline that abandons a city in its moment of need and will do what we can to help the city within our constraints,” he said.
Jetstar continues to operate its full schedule of domestic New Zealand and trans-Tasman international services from Christchurch, with a total of 95 weekly return services to the city. Meanwhile, Christchurch International Airport (CIAL) has been working collaboratively with its tourism partners from Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism and Tourism New Zealand to develop a new strategy to ensure that the South Island continues to attract tourists. CIAL chief executive, Jim Boult, said: “We have always been the major gateway for international travellers to come to the South Island and we still intend to be. Tourists spend NZ$4.3 billion a year in the South Island, so keeping this industry alive and thriving is vital to the renewal of Christchurch and the well-being of the South Island economy.” CIAL’s efforts include arranging a meeting with all the regional tourism offi ces and airlines involved in tourism in the South Island.
HAINAN SETS SIGHTS ON SWITZERLAND Privately owned Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines will begin three-times weekly service from Beijing to Zurich this summer. The route will be operated by an A330 and will be Hainan’s sixth point in Europe. It already fl ies from Beijing to Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Moscow and St Petersburg, and from Shanghai to Brussels.
NASSAU’S NEW DEPARTURE TERMINAL Nassau’s Lynden Pindling International Airport opened its new US Departures Terminal on March 16, 20 months after breaking ground on the 247,000sqft facility, writes Chris Kjelgaard. The new terminal – completed for $191 million, $7 million under budget – is 20% larger than the existing international terminal and can handle 1,800 passengers per hour. (From left): George H Casey, president and CEO, Vancouver Airport Services; Stewart Steeves, president and CEO, Nassau Airport Development Company; Hubert A Ingraham, prime minister, The Bahamas; Sir Arthur Foulkes, governor-general of The Bahamas; and Frank H Watson, chairman of Nassau Airport Development Company.
Swiss already offers a daily connection from Zurich to
This story fi rst appeared on The Hub on March 4, 2011.
China, but it serves Shanghai, rather than Beijing. About 214,000 O&D passengers travelled between Switzerland and China in 2010, with around 57,000 using the direct routing offered by Swiss.
GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd, a part of GVK, intends to develop new international airports in Indonesia at Bali and Yogyakarta. The company has reportedly signed an MoU with the Indonesian government to build, operate and manage the new gateways.
Traffi c at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport was back at pre-Hurricane Katrina levels in 2010
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thanks to 5.1% growth in passenger volumes. It welcomed a number of new routes and airlines. Now the city is gearing up to host the 2013 Super Bowl, which will include a $290 million airport modernisation project.
Tiger Airways intends to buy a 32.5% stake in SEAIR, the niche carrier based in the Phillippines. SEAIR intends to expand domestic and international routes and will
operate A320 aircraft on short-haul point-to- point fl ights. The two airlines had previously signed a partnership agreement.
Spainair will introduce a second weekly fl ight from Barcelona to Bamako in Mali from June 1. It is the only direct service between the two cities. The airline launched its fi rst service on December 18 and said the success of the weekly fl ight prompted it to introduce a second weekly connection.
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