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Air France announced (11-Dec-2025) plans to open a new lounge in Terminal 4 at London Heathrow Airport in spring 2026. The lounge will be reserved for the airline's La Première, Business and Flying Blue Elite Plus customers, as well as eligible travellers flying with KLM and SkyTeam alliance partner airlines. The 750sqm lounge was designed in collaboration with SGK Brandimage and features approximately 150 seats. [more - original PR]

US Department of Transportation (DoT) reported (11-Dec-2025) the following traffic highlights for all carriers for Sep-2025:

• Passengers: 86.1 million, -1.6% year-on-year;
  • Domestic: 67.4 million, -0.9%;
  • International: 18.7 million, -4.2%;
• RPM: -1.0%;
  • Domestic: -1.0%;
  • International: +5.1%;
• ASM: +1.2%;
  • Domestic: -0.5%;
  • International: +2.9%;
• Passenger load factor: 80.5%, -1.9pp;
  • Domestic: 81.0%, -0.5pp;
  • International: 80.0%, -3.2pp;
• Number of flights: 790,726, -0.2%;
  • Domestic: 672,785, +0.2%;
  • International: 117,941, -2.5%. [more - original PR]

Turkish Airlines and Phnom Penh Techo Takhmao International Airport, via their official LinkedIn accounts, announced (11-Dec-2025) the carrier launched three times weekly Istanbul-Phnom Penh service.

flyadeal CEO Steven Greenway, in an interview in the CAPA - Centre for Aviation report entitled: 'Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030: An Evolving Market for Air Travel', stated (12-Dec-2025) the airline plans to launch services with A330neo aircraft to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines to capture pilgrim and worker traffic before adding selected European markets for pilgrim travel. Mr Greenway said: "We are testing the market to convert to scheduled services depending on demand. So, our own A330s have a potentially bigger operational scope". He said the A330neos "will be high utilisation and high density configuration" to target "high volume, low yield markets for Hajj and Umrah pilgrim travel" while maintaining "the lowest possible unit cost". [more - CAPA Report]

Air India and Scoot signed (11-Dec-2025) an interline agreement. Under the agreement, Air India passengers can travel from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai to Singapore and connect to Scoot services from Singapore to more than 60 destinations in the Asia Pacific region, all under a single itinerary. This includes multiple destinations "not covered by any of the airline's other existing [interline] partnerships", including Macau, Padang, Labuan, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Langkawi, Ipoh, Kuantan, Miri, Sibu, Malacca, Kota Bharu, Davao, Koh Samui, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Nha Trang and Phu Quoc. [more - original PR]

Air New Zealand announced (11-Dec-2025) the opening of its new Lookout Lounge on level 2 of Auckland International Airport's terminal on 12-Dec-2025. The lounge will be open daily from 05:00 to 10:00 and from 15:30 to 21:15. The airline plans to commence construction of Koru lounges at the airport in 2026, with the project to be delivered in two stages. The existing Koru Lounge will remain open with reduced capacity while work is completed on the Koru Premier Lounge for Koru Platinum, Koru Black and Business Premier customers, due to open in 2027. Following this phase, the current lounge space will be redeveloped, with the refreshed Koru Lounge expected to open by late 2027. [more - original PR]