„Aktuell“ – News from the industry

Hispanic college students can win tickets in Adelante! Fund essay/video contest about Latin America – Winners to be announced at Adelante! Leadership Institute

On May 29, tens of thousands of blondes will parade through the Latvian capital of Riga, as part of the city’s annual Go Blonde festival. airBaltic welcomes Go Blonde visitors to Riga on the airline’s more than 70 direct flights originating in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East

Westin guests who stay twice till May 13 receive $100 Amazon.com gift card

Maintaining connectivity and growing selectively in key strategic areas

The Board of Virgin Blue Holdings Limited (VBA)announced that it had appointed John Borghetti as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, effective May 8, 2010.

Latvia’s national airline Air Baltic will be offering flights between Riga and the Romanian capital of Bucharest from March 29 this year. The flights will be operated by the Romanian national airline, TAROM, under a code-sharing agreement with Air Baltic.

ontinental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today reported a February consolidated (mainline plus regional) load factor of 77.7 percent, 5.2 points above the February 2009 consolidated load factor, and a mainline load factor of 78.1 percent, 5.2 points above the February 2009 mainline load factor. Both February load factors were records for the month.

Three nonstop flights per week, and four during the summer. The Spanish airline will offer more than 50,000 seats on the route between the two capital cities in 2010

Favorable scenario for the airline industry: prospects of increased economic activity in Brazil and in South America, notably in the tourism and leisure markets and accelerated growth of Brazil’s middle class.

The positive trends which began at the end of the second quarter continue, and the slowdown in rate and occupancy decreases point towards a forecast recovery in 2010