Airports, air-traffic control

Bombardier Transportation has announced two contracts for its BOMBARDIER INNOVIA Monorail 300 system for two mass rapid transit lines in Bangkok.

Begishevo Airport, a subsidiary of KAMAZ PTC (part of Rostec State Corporation), entered the top 40 of Russian airports in terms of traffic volumes in January-June 2017. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, Begishevo is 38th in the rating of Russian airports among 259 companies.

Emirates, the world’s best airline according to TripAdvisor, will increase capacity on its services to Egypt from 29th October 2017, with the launch of four additional scheduled flights every week to Cairo.

Emirates and The Football Association announced today a three year contract extension to their successful existing partnership. The agreement will see the tournament continue to be named The Emirates FA Cup through until 2021.

Aeroflot has recently taken delivery of another brand-new aircraft Boeing B737 -800.

Due to the strike action by security staff at Barcelona Airport, Aeroflot asks passengers booked on flights departing Barcelona on Fridays, Sundays and Mondays starting from 4 August onwards to arrive at check-in in plenty of time/

Mashhad and Isfahan are Iran’s second- and third-most-populous cities, respectively. Both represent new destinations for the Pulkovo route network, and Zagros Airlines — a new carrier for the St. Petersburg airport.

On August 2, 2017, Pulkovo St. Petersburg Airport welcomed the first commercial flight of airBaltic Bombardier CS300 aircraft from Riga, Latvia. The airplane was traditionally greeted with a water cannon salute from the airport firetrucks.

Air France-KLM will acquire Virgin Group’s 31% stake in Virgin Atlantic for 220 million.

In the winter of 2017/2018 Sichuan Airlines plans to commence scheduled flights from Pulkovo Airport to the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan, Chengdu.