Aviation

Still dreaming of that San Diego sunset? Longing for Las Vegas entertainment? Spirit Airlines has you covered with ultra-low fares to 22 new routes and 27 seasonal routes starting this spring. To celebrate, Spirit is offering roundtrip flights in these 49 routes as low as $49 for members of its $9 Fare Club and as low as $79 for non-members.

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will launch two new flights directly connecting Chennai with Paris and Bengaluru with Amsterdam. The new routes will enable guests to travel to destinations in Europe and North America with its codeshare partners Delta and Air France-KLM.

Famous with its low cost overseas flights, Norwegian now announced a new route from London Gatwick to Singapore this winter. From 28th September, Norwegian will operate four weekly flights, increasing to five in the winter, from London Gatwick to Singapore Changi Airport, with fares starting from £179.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will again offer direct flights between London and Sion in the 2017/18 winter timetable period. With the flights having proved highly popular this winter, SWISS has decided to again offer UK-based winter sports enthusiasts these convenient direct services between London and Sion in the coming winter season.

SAS launches new year round route between Helsinki and Malaga. The new route is served with an Airbus A320 and B737-800, on Saturdays all year round, starting November 4th of 2017. Including the new route, SAS is now offering ten departures to Malaga from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and now also Finland.

Iberia presented today its first Airbus A340/600 fitted with its new Premium Economy seating section to travel agencies, major companies, and Spanish and European media. This summer the Spanish airline will have five such aircraft in its fleet.

SAS opens a new direct route between Stockholm and Eilat in Israel. The new route between Stockholm and Eilat starts on October 28 as part of SAS’ winter program for 2017/2018, with departures weekly on Saturdays during the period of 28th of October to March 24th 2018.

Emirates is decreasing flight frequency to the United States because of a drop in demand caused by heightened security measures and Trump administration attempts to ban travelers from Muslim-majority nations.

Airports Council International (ACI), which is the trade association of the world's airports, announced traffic statistics of airports in 2016. The statistics reveal that traffic at the world's 20 busiest air passenger hubs grew 4.7% in 2016. Compare to previous year, the top spot for the world's busiest airport is unchanged. Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) ranked as the world's busiest airport, boasting over 104 million passengers, 2.6% more than 2015.

Tunisair, the national carrier of Tunisia, and Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, signed a Digital Services Agreement. Jeppesen will provide Tunisair with FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag (EFB) on iPad, tailored charting services and OpsData aircraft performance management tools.

After named world's strongest airline brand earlier this year, Brand Finance announced that Aeroflot is also the strongest brand in Russia. Brand Finance is the world's leading independent branded business valuation and strategy consultancy. Both awards were presented to Vitaly Saveliev, CEO of Aeroflot, at a ceremony in London today.

Global passenger traffic increased 3.5% in February which was below the past 12-month growth trend of 5.3%, according to Airports Council International. February year-over-year traffic growth was distorted by the timing of the Chinese New Year that fell in January as opposed to February last year, and the fact that 2016 was also a leap year.

Qatar Airways announced that the carrier will showcase its unique and revolutionary new premium travel experience, Qsuite at next week’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM), the region’s leading travel trade fair taking place 24 to 27 April in Dubai.

Ukraine International Airlines launched non-stop scheduled flights between Kiev and Kherson. Currently, Ukraine’s flag carrier operates domestic flights between the capital and nine regional destinations.