LONDON, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — British Airways has refurbished its main lounge for business travellers at its Terminal 5 home. The Club World Galleries South at T5A has been given a careful make-over, sprucing up the busy business class lounge for the airline’s premium customers. A new furniture layout has been thoughtfully designed to… Read the full press release
LONDON, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — British Airways is celebrating 80 years of flying to Hong Kong with the launch of a special anniversary fare for customers. The maiden flight which took off on March 14, 1936 took ten days to complete, stopping at 24 different cities across the world and a one way ticket… Read the full press release
LONDON, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — Bear Grylls shares his endurance tips with British Airways’ staff embarking on a mile walk in heels for Sport Relief. The fundraisers were waved off by entertainer Alesha Dixon. The airline has raised £2 million for Sport Relief this year, and more than £12 million for Comic Relief since… Read the full press release
LONDON, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — British Airways believes it can boast the UK’s longest serving former apprentice. Keith Hayward, 86, joined British Airways’ predecessor, British South American Airways as a traffic apprentice in 1945, and has been with the airline ever since. Currently a volunteer in the airline’s archive and heritage centre, Keith has 70… Read the full press release
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — Blue Islands announces that it has today (10 March 2016) reached agreement with Europe’s largest regional airline, Flybe, for a franchise partnership which will see it take to the skies in Flybe branded aircraft with effect from June 2016. Rob Veron, Blue Islands’ Managing Director said:… Read the full press release
Edinburgh, Scotland, 2016-Mar-14 — /Travel PR News/ — Yesterday, 9th March 2016, Icelandair started a new year-round service from Aberdeen International Airport (ABZ) to Reykjavik (KEF).The new gateway will become Icelandair’s second in Scotland and sixth in the UK. Flights will operate four times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flight to Reykjavik (KEF)… Read the full press release
LONDON, 2016-Mar-11 — /Travel PR News/ — An innovative new procedure pioneered at Heathrow that allows more aircraft to land per hour during heavy head winds won one of five Single European Sky Awards yesterday. The operating procedure, called Time Based Separation (TBS), is a world-first at Heathrow, and came as a result of a partnership between… Read the full press release
Demand is shifting due to political turmoil Summer of 2016: 96 times per week to Italy and eleven weekly flights to Spain Jerez and Bari as new destinations in the flight schedule of Austrian Airlines Vienna, Austria, 2016-Mar-11 — /Travel PR News/ — The cards on the holiday market will be reshuffled in the upcoming… Read the full press release
• February 2016: 6.2 percent more passengers • January-February 2016: 3.7 percent increase in passenger volume VIENNA, Austria, 2016-Mar-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Following the positive start to the new year (+1.6 percent in January 2016), Austrian Airlines further increased its passenger volume for the month of February 2016: Austria’s red-white-red carrier transported more than… Read the full press release
Joint Release With Tourism Malaysia SINGAPORE, 2016-Mar-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Tourism Malaysia have agreed to work together to boost tourist arrivals into Malaysia through the signing of their first-ever Marketing Collaboration Memorandum. The two-year partnership was signed at ITB Berlin 20161, witnessed by Hon. Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz,… Read the full press release
COLOGNE, Germany, 2016-Mar-10 — /Travel PR News/ — Lufthansa has been actively investigating smell events in aircraft for many years. This includes an intensive and cross-disciplinary investigation into whether these incidents could cause a health risk to passengers and crew members. Lufthansa has so far invested more than EUR 500,000 in large-scale projects as part of… Read the full press release
Doncaster, England, 2016-Mar-10 — /Travel PR News/ — Doncaster Sheffield Airport has been helping to ensure that consumers still get their biscuits following a national shortage. The cargo team at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, have welcomed two Boeing 777 aircraft full of biscuits into the region in the last two weeks. Dayle Hauxwell, cargo manager for Doncaster… Read the full press release
Berlin, Germany, 2016-Mar-09 — /Travel PR News/ — In February 2016, airberlin was able to maintain virtually stable capacity utilization (RPK/ASK) compared to the corresponding month of the previous year and recorded only a slight decrease of 1 percentage point to 83.6 percent. When taking into consideration the accumulated time period, airberlin increased its capacity… Read the full press release
Individual travel comfort is now the trend Berlin, Germany, 2016-Mar-09 — /Travel PR News/ — A seat in the front row, extra legroom, a tasty currywurst sausage or extra baggage – passenger wishes are infinitely individual. airberlin offers numerous additional travel options, so every passenger can fly just as they like. Options can be selected during… Read the full press release
New Delhi, 2016-Mar-09 — /Travel PR News/ — This year on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Vistara thanks all the women in the world for making the world a better place, and honours the immense contributions of its incredible women employees who have helped the brand scale new heights in terms of reliability and service… Read the full press release
Five times weekly to Hong Kong on a Boeing 777 as of September 5, 2016 Austrian Airlines flying to China’s three largest cities – Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing Up to 31 times per week to Asia in the summer of 2016 Vienna, Austria, 2016-Mar-09 — /Travel PR News/ — Austrian Airlines is adding a… Read the full press release
Auckland, New Zealand, 2016-Mar-07 — /Travel PR News/ — Auckland Airport has welcomed today’s announcement by Air New Zealand that it will recommence three flights per week to Osaka, Japan in November 2016. The service will use a B767-300 aircraft and operate until March 2017. Norris Carter, Auckland Airport’s general manager – aeronautical commercial, says, “This… Read the full press release
Award-winning airline adds Sydney to its network of more than 150 destinations worldwid SYDNEY, Australia, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — Qatar Airways today celebrated the arrival of its first flight from Doha to Sydney, making this the airline’s third gateway into Australia. A delegation of VIPs from Qatar, including Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His… Read the full press release
Qatar Airways Cargo brings the world’s finest equine athletes to Doha on three specially chartered Boeing 777F aircraft Specialist team accompany the horses as they fly from Liege to Doha DOHA, Qatar, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — Qatar Airways Cargo will this week transport 118 of the world’s most admired show jumping and dressage horses… Read the full press release
Year-on-year figures reveal that Qatar Airways Cargo’s tonnage increased by more than 400,000 tonnes in 2015 DOHA, Qatar, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — Statistics revealed by Qatar Airways Cargo today show that the world’s third largest international air freight carrier increased its tonnage by 37.5 per cent in 2015. Highlighting the airline’s continued growth and… Read the full press release
The Skytrax 2015 World’s Best Airline will also reveal a new exhibition stand Guests invited to test First and Business Class seats at the airline’s stand DOHA, Qatar, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — Qatar Airways will once again participate in the world’s largest travel and trade event, ITB Berlin, from 9-13 March 2016, and is… Read the full press release
For the ITB, airberlin is serving the popular snack free on board Berlin, Germany, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — The curried sausage is cult aboard airberlin flights, and this year’s International Tourism Exchange (ITB) wouldn’t be the same without the popular savoury snack on board. Germany’s second largest airline will serve free curried sausage… Read the full press release
Allegiant Offers Flights To More Than 20 NASCAR Race Markets; Becomes Presenting Sponsor of NASCAR Goes West on NASCAR.com Daytona Beach, Fla., 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — NASCAR and Allegiant Air announced today, during the NASCAR Fuel For Business Council meeting in Las Vegas, a multi-year agreement designating the travel company as the Official Passenger Airline… Read the full press release
LAS VEGAS, NV, 2016-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) will be presenting at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. A live broadcast of this presentation will be available through the company’s Investor Relations website homepage at http://ir.allegiantair.com. The webcast will also be archived… Read the full press release
Berlin, Germany, 2016-Mar-03 — /Travel PR News/ — airberlin is extending its offer to Fort Myers and will be adding a weekly flight to the sunny Florida destination, increasing flight frequency to four times a week from 5 June 2016. The only European airline with a non-stop connection to Fort Myers, airberlin offers flights from… Read the full press release
Frankfurt, Germany, 2016-Mar-03 — /Travel PR News/ — Lufthansa commenced its new non-stop service between Frankfurt and Panama City today. Flight LH 484 departed from Frankfurt (FRA) at 10:15 local time, and is scheduled to arrive at the Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen in Panama City (PTY) at 16:40 local time this afternoon. Eastbound flight LH 485… Read the full press release
Yorkshire, England, 2016-Mar-02 — /Travel PR News/ — A major link road, which will cut journey times to the UK’s fastest growing airport and help to create thousands of new jobs and homes in Doncaster, has officially opened today (29 February 2016) as Great Yorkshire Way. Planning for the link from the south of Doncaster to… Read the full press release
UPWARD TREND CONTINUES FOR AIRPORT WITH 8.7% PASSENGER GROWTH IN JANUARY Oakland, CA, 2016-Mar-01 — /Travel PR News/ — With more flights, new destinations, and a terminal renovation underway, Oakland International Airport continues to trend upward into 2016. According to reports for January, total passenger traffic at the airport reached 843,073, up 8.7% from 775,420… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2016-Feb-29 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air Holdings plc (“Wizz Air” or “the Company” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces the appointment of Susan Hooper to the Board of the Company as a non-executive director with effect from 1 March 2016…. Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2016-Feb-29 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,today announced new service from Budapest to Sofia, beginning 1 November. The service between the Hungarian and Bulgarian capitals will run three days a week and tickets are on sale now at wizzair.com starting at 39.99 Lev/5,990 Forints… Read the full press release