Airports, air-traffic control

Aeroflot began selling tickets for flights to/from Salekhard. The flights begin operating on 1 June 2017.

On 26 March 2017, KLM will launch a thrice daily service between Milan Malpensa and Schiphol, in addition to the existing service from Milan Linate. In addition, Air France operates five flights a day between Milan Malpensa and Paris Charles de Gaulle.

Changi Airport Group (CAG) announced today the completion of construction for its new passenger terminal building, Terminal 4 (T4). 

KLM today announced a major step forward in the pension conflict with the cabin crew unions VNC and FNV.

IATA highlighted four priorities in the Middle East and North Africa which must be addressed for aviation to deliver maximum economic and social benefits.

The two airlines have agreed to sell tickets on other’s flights between Amsterdam and Taipei via code-sharing and block-space agreements, with each getting a set number of seats to sell on each other’s Amsterdam-Taipei-Amsterdam services, using their own flight number.

The consortium comprising Basic Element, one of Russia’s diversified industrial groups, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Changi Airports International (CAI) announces the acquisition of Vladivostok International Airport in Russia’s Far East.

Muhammad Ali Albakri joins IATA as Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East on 1 January 2017.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen, promote, and develop cooperation on aviation facilitation and border integrity issues—two of the key components for governments to fulfill their national security responsibilities.