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Delta Airlines is launching daily flights between Tel Aviv and Atlanta beginning Monday.
The airline is also considering scheduling flights between New York and Tel Aviv starting in 2007.
Delta Airlines executive VP and chief of network and revenue management Glen W. Hauenstein said that the airline is considering submitting an application to Israel's Tourism Ministry. Outgoing Minister of Tourism Abraham Hirchson said he would support an application.
Taiwan and Vietnam have agreed to expand flights between them on the back of booming trade and tourism, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Saturday.
Under the new pact pending final approval from both governments, the seat capacity of Taiwanese airlines offering regular passenger flights to Ho Chi Minh City will nearly double to 11,000 a week from 6,010, the CAA said in a statement.
And the cargo flight capacity of Taiwan air carriers would be lifted from 600 tonnes a week to 1,000 tonnes, it said.
Taiwanese airlines would also be allowed to extend their flights from Vietnam to Europe while Vietnam Airlines would be allowed to extend its flights from Taipei to San Francisco or Los Angeles, it said.
British Airways (BA) has decided to add another flight from London Heathrow to Bangalore from 4 May 2006. The airline had launched the flights to Bangalore on 31 Oct 2005 and will operate six flights a week to the city.
BA intends to rationalise flights to and from Chennai to five times a week from 4 May 2006. The airline operates twice-a-day flights from Mumbai and Delhi.
How often do you hear an Alaska Airlines flight attendant say "we have a very full flight today"?
The flight attendant is telling the truth: Alaska's flights are fuller. In February, the airline's passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare-paying passengers) rose to 73.7 percent from 70.7 percent a year ago.
The airline, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK), reported traffic increased by 6.4 percent to 1.26 billion passenger miles from 1.18 billion in 2005. The airline carried 1.2 million passengers last month, up from 1.17 million a year earlier.
Horizon Air's load factor also rose, to 71.5 percent, compared with 67.4 percent a year ago.
Regarding the airline's on-time performance, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's "Air Travel Consumer Report" for January released this week, Alaska Air was No. 18 of the 19 airlines surveyed by the government. Alaska's on-time performance in January was 71.2 percent of flights arriving within 15 minutes of their scheduled time. The 19 airlines surveyed averaged 78.8 percent of on-time arrivals.
Alaska's on-time performance bettered only JetBlue, which recorded a 70.6 on-time performance average. Hawaiian Airlines topped the January list, with its flights arriving 95.9 percent on time.
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