Zayed Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain’s Minister of Industry, Commerce & Tourism, speaks to Routes about the aviation aspirations of the Routes World 2024 host and what delegates can expect from the event.
Sky High is seeking to further expand services through the Caribbean and U.S. as it makes use of the range capabilities of its small fleet of Embraer E-Jets.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has been appointed the Official Carrier for Routes Europe 2024, the leading route development event taking place in the Danish city of Aarhus from April 22-24.
Maria Kouroupi, Senior Manager Aviation Development, Marketing and Communications at Hermes Airports, speaks to Routes about what it meant to win the 5-10 million category at the 2023 Routes Awards.
Warner Andrada, OIC – Assistant Secretary for Tourism Development at Department of Tourism, Philippines, speaks to Routes about the country’s tourism recovery and target markets.
Léon Verhallen, Director Aviation Development at Brussels Airport, speaks to Routes about recent successes and what it means to be named the winner of the 10-20 million passenger category at the 2023 Routes Awards.
Space Domain Awareness - the ability to rapidly detect, characterize, warn, attribute, and predict threats to space systems - is one of the top priorities for U.S. Space Command.
Dominating this week’s top air transport stories include aircraft orders from Dublin-based lessor Avolon’s order for 140 new Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific’s order for six Airbus A350 freighters.
Jordi Pla Pintre, Director of Network Strategy and Long-Term Planning at Vueling Airlines, outlines what it meant to win the Airline Award category at this year’s Routes Awards.
Peh Ke-Wei, Vice President of Air Hub Development at Changi Airport Group, discusses the reopening of Terminal 2 and Singapore’s route development targets.
Paul van den Brink of Cape Town Air Access, winner of the Destination Award category at the Routes Awards 2023, notes recent successes and upcoming plans.
In 1951, Lockheed’s chief engineer, Hall Hibbard, asked a 41-year-old Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson to come into his office. Johnson had made a name for himself during World War II for delivering the first XP-80 jet fighter prototype in 143 days, and Hibbard wanted his advice on Lockheed’s newest aircraft design proposal: the Model 82 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop transport. Johnson, who believed speed was the key to aviation’s future, blurted out: “Hibbard, if you send that in [to the Air Force,] you’ll destroy the Lockheed Company.”