Aviation

In the 2018/19 winter flight schedule, Lufthansa will be offering the connections from Frankfurt to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) as two separate flights.

Etihad Airways and Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) have launched a new codeshare partnership with bookings effective immediately.

Bangkok Airways announces additional non-stop flight between Bangkok and Vientiane (Laos), bringing this route to 2 daily flights in order to serve increasing demands. These additional services will be effective from 25 March 2018 onward.

Delta will start Las Vegas service from Boston this October, marking the global airline's 50th nonstop destination from Boston Logan International Airport.

Lufthansa Group has launched hasslefree, one-step biometric boarding utilizing facial recognition.

Snowploughs at airports may soon be autonomous. For the first time, autonomous snowploughs, 20 metres long and 5.5 metres wide, have cleared snow from a runway.

Air France’s millennial-focused Joon adds its new generation travel experience to Avinor’s Oslo Airport this summer. Having presented its new subsidiary last autumn, Air France’s Joon has become Avinor’s Oslo Airport’s latest connection to Paris Charles de Gaulle for S18.

Vietjet announced Brisbane as its first Australian long haul destination following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the airline and Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), Queensland, Australia.

APG is the new GSA of Latvian airline airBaltic (IATA code-BT) effective from March 2018.

Vietjet announced that travel will be much easier between Vietnam and India thanks to the new direct flights between the two countries.

All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest and only 5-Star airline, and Juneyao Airlines, Shanghai based airline established in 2006, announced the launch of codeshare and frequent flyer program partnership, starting from March 25, 2018.

Hertz Europe Limited, part of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., has signed a global partnership agreement with the European airline Eurowings, a Lufthansa subsidiary, and its frequent flyer program Boomerang Club. Hertz and Thrifty rentals are now available to Eurowings' customers from the Eurowings.com website, resulting in added convenience and car rental choice worldwide.

Res2, the Netherlands-based ground handling IT expert, and Travelport, the leading Travel Commerce Platform, jointly announce a new multi-year agreement with Havaş Ground Handling for deployment of the industry leading iPort DCS (departure control system).

A passenger plane from US-Bangla, a Bangladeshi airline, has crashed off the runway while trying to land at Kathmandu airport in Nepal.