Eight US airports have won prizes in the 2013 US ANNIE Airport Awards, with Hawaiian airports wining three of the four ANNIE awards for traffic growth this year. New York JFK wins the prestigious ”Airports With The Most New Airlines” award, and Los Angeles Airport takes the “The Most New International Routes” award.
Manchester Airport’s Group Ken O’Toole will be spending more time in London and Dublin following the sale of London Stansted from LHR Airports Ltd.
Base number 56 and 57 will be in Africa for Ryanair, making it the first European low-cost airline to start operational bases outside of Europe.
anna.aero reveals from a top-level source at Emirates which destinations on the map will be added in 2013 in addition to the already announced new routes to Warsaw and Algiers.
Despite the global economic malaise, 2012 was a record-breaking year for route development. In 2013, Ryanair and Southwest are amongst the airline “usual suspects” with the most additional services on their respective new routes list.
Most of the eight airlines operating the Boeing 787 are keeping them close to base while they build-up familiarity with the new airframe. At 5,245 kilometres, Qatar Airways’ Doha to London 787 route which touched down for the first time on 14 December, is only using around one-third of the aircraft’s 15,000 kilometre range capability.
anna.aero’s publisher is investing in our industry by getting on a plane for Christmas (London Gatwick-Dubai on Emirates). The next anna.aero e-flash is on January 9 2013 when you will also be able to read about all the launches which took place over the long vacation.
Following on from this week’s Top Story where we discovered 27 soon-to-be announced Turkish Airlines routes, anna.aero sources have been in touch again to reveal nine further spokes that are on Turkish Airlines’ drawing board for 2013.
anna.aero reports from Friedrichshafen in southern Germany, which last week saw the arrival of Santa onboard Monarch Airlines’ inaugural flight from London Gatwick.
anna.aero reveals from a top-level source which points on the map will be added to the nearly 200 destinations already connected to the Istanbul Atatürk hub in the near future.
In terms of routes, what does it mean if the world’s biggest airline becomes a half-shareholder of the second largest airline at the world’s busiest international airport?
