Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand have emerged as the two airlines setting the standard for premium economy, a cabin that has moved from a niche add-on to a core piece of airline revenue strategy, according to an October 15 article by Simple Flying writer Daniel.
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Middle East carriers are showing sharply divergent recovery patterns six months into the regional conflict, according to an analysis published Friday by Aviation Week comparing September flight activity to the same month in 2025.
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Thailand's tourism authority is preparing to offer free guided tours to international travelers with long layovers, aiming to turn idle transit time into tourist spending.
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Ryanair said Thursday it will invest $200 million in a new aircraft base at Rimini, Italy, set to open for summer 2027. The base will run 114 weekly flights and offer more than 600,000 low-fare seats across 17 routes, with the airline framing the move as a boost to tourism and connectivity in the region.
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Air traffic between Europe and the Middle East fell 14% in cumulative 2026 totals compared with the same period last year, according to a Eurocontrol report, with the decline reaching 20% when measured against pre-war levels from January and February. Those two pre-war months had themselves been running 9% ahead of the prior year, a trajectory the outbreak of war in the region reversed through airspace closures and higher fuel costs.
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A frequent business-class flyer reviewing cabins for Business Insider has named Starlux Airlines their favorite, ranking the Taiwanese carrier above Singapore Airlines and Emirates. The verdict came after a flight on the airline's Airbus A350-900 from Taipei to San Francisco, a nearly 12-hour overnight leg that was the second half of a trip that began in Kuala Lumpur.
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Air India will lift its Melbourne-Delhi and Sydney-Delhi services from daily to 11 times a week, the carrier's global head of sales, Manish Puri, has announced. The expansion is part of a wider widebody deployment the airline is planning across the United States, Australia and Europe.
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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, a 155,000-hectare stretch of white sand dunes in Brazil's north-eastern state of Maranhão, drew record numbers of visitors in 2025 and is now set for its first direct international flight connections.
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German airports handled 97.7 million passengers in the first half of 2026, down 0.8% from a year earlier, while scheduled seat capacity across the country sat at 82% of 2019 levels.
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Global air passenger traffic fell 0.8 percent in August compared with a year earlier, the International Air Transport Association reported, reversing the marginal growth the industry posted in July.
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North American demand for summer travel to Europe has surged, with airlines scheduling 69% more seats in July 2026 than in July 2010, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium data analyzed by Business Insider.
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Skyscanner's Travel Trends 2027 report, published Sunday, found that 58 per cent of Indian travellers plan to travel abroad more next year. The report draws on a OnePoll survey of 2,000 Indian respondents conducted in July.
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Air India's chief commercial officer and transformation officer said two-thirds of the country's 160 airports see "very low" use, with only 40 operating at 70 to 80 per cent of capacity, as he pressed airlines to expand regional flying beyond India's biggest cities. Nipun Aggarwal made the comments at a panel discussion organized by GE Aerospace India on Monday.
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The North Atlantic Communications Centre in Ballygirreen, County Clare, is marking 90 years of uninterrupted service to global aviation, operated by AirNav Ireland since the station was established in October 1936.
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Travelers planning multi-city trips often run into two terms that sound interchangeable but affect how a trip is booked and spent: the layover and the stopover.
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Nigerian travellers booking domestic flights for the Christmas and New Year season are facing fare increases of up to nearly three times normal prices, according to an analysis by the flight booking platform Flightpadi.
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Airfare for Thanksgiving and Christmas flights is climbing, and travel experts say the window for booking at reasonable prices is closing fast.
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A $200,000-per-person round-the-world travel package sold out in 17 seconds, Jane Sun, chief executive of the Chinese travel company trips.com, told a World Travel & Tourism Council summit in Malta on Sunday.
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Holiday airfares are climbing sharply this year, with average fares up 23% since fighting broke out in Iran sent oil prices higher, according to an October 9 report from The Points Guy.
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Vacationers are increasingly booking trips without knowing where they're going until after they've paid, a practice known as mystery travel.
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