China Southern Airlines is to launch daily Boeing 777 flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Guangzhou starting June 22.
This trans-pacific service, operated by China Southern Airlines for the past eight years, is operated under code share service with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, offering connecting flights between seven major USA destinations and Guangzhou including New York City (JFK), Atlanta, Salt Lake city, Honolulu, Boston and Cincinnati.
Virgin Atlantic began flying between the Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai, its first Middle Eastern location, and London yesterday and will offer daily flights starting June 2.
Mr. Andrew Fyfe, regional manager for the Middle East & Indian Sub-continent, stated that “we are delighted to have set up our office in Dubai and are ready to begin flights from today, four times a week to London non-stop and then build up to daily from June 2.”
JetBlue Airways has unveiled the launch of their brand communications program titled “Sincerely, JetBlue” designed to provide customers a forum in which to tell their personal JetBlue stories. JetBlue customers believe they helped build the company. And JetBlue isn´t disagreeing.
Created by marketing partner JWT New York, the program uses multiple media channels to facilitate the collection and distribution of these stories to the broader community.
Copa Airlines will begin flights to five new destinations in Latin America from its Hub of the Americas in Panama City, Panama.
Starting in July the new destinations are Port of Spain in Trinidad & Tobago Daily (July 7); Manaos, Brazil (July 15); Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (July 15);
Montevideo, Uruguay (Aug. 15), and San Pedro Sula, Honduras (November 13).
American Airlines is signing a new five-year content distribution agreement with Worldspan.
In conjunction with the agreement, Worldspan has developed two new optional products to introduce into the marketplace.
Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB) is “on the verge of bankruptcy,” its president said, as a worsening financial and labor crisis left the airline threatening Monday to cancel national and international flights again.
In a television announcement Sunday night, Ernesto Asbun also called on workers to halt recent strikes, warning that if the situation did not reverse itself quickly, LAB, which has some 1,500 employees, would be forced to cease flights to Madrid, Miami and Washington.