Frontier Airlines and Silver Airways are dropping air service to Cuba , saying other airlines are adding too many flights to the island nation and making the routes unprofitable. U.S. airlines rushed to begin flights to Cuba last year after the Obama administration allowed commercial service for the first time in more than half a century.
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Air NZ contract for Virgin Australia planes to be serviced in Nelson
Air New Zealand chief operations officer Bruce Parton, left, and general manager regional maintenance operations Adam McMillan look at one of Virgin Australia’s ATRs at the regional maintenance base in Nelson. A fleet of Virgin Australia’s turboprop planes are now being serviced at Air New Zealand’s regional maintenance facility in Nelson.
Australia shares hit by materials, Qantas up after results; NZ edge higher
Feb 23 Australian shares fell on Thursday, dragged by weakness in the materials sector with miner Rio Tinto tumbling after going ex-dividend, though rises in Qantas Airways and Casino operator Crown Resorts after their earnings contained losses. The S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.4 percent, or 22.399 points, at 5,782.700 by 0044 GMT.
Australia shares hit by materials, Qantas up after results; NZ edge higher
Feb 23 Australian shares fell on Thursday, dragged by weakness in the materials sector with miner Rio Tinto tumbling after going ex-dividend, though rises in Qantas Airways and Casino operator Crown Resorts after their earnings contained losses. The S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.4 percent, or 22.399 points, at 5,782.700 by 0044 GMT.
Qatar chief bags Air NZ for cancelling agreement that would have connected Kiwis to vast network
Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker with Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand at the Qatar Airways press conference in Auckland. The head of Qatar Airlines Akbar Al Baker has slammed Air New Zealand for withdrawing from an agreement before it touched down on our shores, saying the move will prevent Kiwi travellers from connecting to a wide international flight network.
China Southern Airlines Is A Buy
Shares of China Southern Airlines, the largest Chinese Air Carrier are attractively priced and are trading at a discount from the highs. In a conservative scenario, the shares have about 30% upside if they trade at 5-year average historical forward EV/EBITDA.
Pacific Islands: Why it’s Island Time
Okay, so it’s wet season for most Pacific Islands from November to March/April, so you’re not guaranteed a 100 per cent sunny holiday. But this means it’s also low season at the moment, so you can get some really amazing deals.
Gisborne bus crash survivors settle in at Auckland church
Dozens of students aged between 11 and 17 from Tonga’s Mailefihi Siu’ilikutapu College, in Vava’u, have started settling in at a church in the city, having been flown to Auckland free by Air New Zealand . The youngsters, most of them teenage boys, spoke quietly but continued to smile and joke with each other, while others slept inside.
Winds may finally clear ‘scary’ pollution from China’s skies
Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a “red alert,” the highest level in China’s… . A man wearing a mask for protection against air pollution pushes his luggage at the Beijing Capital International Airport as the capital of China is shrouded by heavy smog on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016.