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On August 21, 2017, Qatar Airways operated its first flight from Doha to Prague. While the route was started just two days ago, the airline is already planning to significantly upgrade operations on the route. A New Daily Qatar Airways Flight Between Doha and Prague Currently, the flight between Doha and Prague is operated daily […]

Yesterday, American Airlines announced the planned launch of three new (seasonal) routes – from Philadelphia to Budapest and Prague, and from Chicago to Venice. Given my connection with the area, the two routes from Philadelphia caught my attention. Both of the routes from Philadelphia will operate daily between May 4, 2018 and October 27, 2018, and

While children’s spaces in airport lounges are fairly common, it is not that often that one’s theme is based on a major franchise. That is the case with the “Star Wars ANA Kids Lounge” that opened recently within one of the two ANA LOUNGEs at Tokyo Haneda airport. Star Wars ANA Kids Lounge The “Star

ANA flight 37 bound from Tokyo to Osaka encountered an emergency shortly after taking off from Tokyo Haneda. The flight, scheduled to depart at 6PM, made a U-turn only a couple of minutes after taking off from Haneda’s runway 05. Given that the oxygen masks dropped out – as seen in tweets by the flight’s

As some of you might know, growing up in Slovakia, Vienna (besides Bratislava) was the closest airport to my home. As such, Fokkers in Austrian (or previously Austrian Arrows, or even Tyrolean Airways) livery were a common sight for me. Unfortunately, though, since January 2016, Austrian Airlines has been replacing its fleet of Fokker 70s

With Cathay Pacific retiring their last passenger 747-400 in October 2016, it is unfortunate to see another Asian airline – EVA Air – put the Queen of the Skies out of passenger service. The last flight of the EVA Air 747-400 will take place on August 21, 2017. The Last EVA Air 747-400 Flight EVA

Yesterday, HK Express (Hong Kong Express) announced its plans to launch a fifth freedom route from Nagoya in Japan to Guam. While this is not the first time for HK Express to enter the Guam market (it operated a flight from Hong Kong to Guam between December 2016 and June 2017), it is the first

According to a news article published on Nikkei (Japanese) last night, Japanese MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and Tourism) will ease its regulations to allow airport operators to open up domestic airside areas to non-passengers. It seems like the effort was spearheaded by Sendai Airport that was recently privatized and is looking for ways to

Recently, I wrote about Austrian resuming the Tokyo route from next summer. Now it seems like Vienna’s connectivity with Asia will improve even more as the airport just announced that Thai Airways will start flights from Bangkok to Vienna from November 16, 2017. Return of Thai Airways to Vienna Interestingly, this is not the first