Air Canada, the flag-carrier airline of Canada, has announced that it will operate direct, seasonal flights between Montreal and Athens; between Montreal and Barcelona; between Toronto and Athens; and between Toronto and Barcelona from June 3, 2010, to October 18, 2010.

Turkish Airlines, the national flag-carrier airline of Turkey, has started non-stop flights between Istanbul in Turkey and Toronto in Canada. Binali Yildirim, Turkey’s Minister of Transportation, and businessmen and journalists were on board Turkish Airlines’ first flight from Istanbul to Toronto on July 11, 2009. In a statement, Turkish Airlines said that it would use Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 aircraft on the Istanbul-Toronto route. Turkish Airlines will fly between Istanbul and Toronto thrice week – on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. The non-stop Istanbul-Toronto flight takes nearly 11 hours. The Istanbul-Toronto flight is Turkish Airlines’ 117th international flight destination. Canada and Turkey had started cooperating in civil aviation after both entered into an agreement in March 2009. The bilateral air transportation agreement allows Canada and Turkey to operate scheduled flights by more than one airline operator from both countries. The first permit under the bilateral pact was granted to Air Canada and Turkish Airlines. The agreement on air transportation had set two destinations each in Canada and Turkey as scheduled flight destinations. Airline companies in both countries are permitted to operate three passenger flights and three cargo flights, as well as third-party codesharing flights. Turkish Airlines also announced that it would launch flights between Istanbul in Turkey and Lviv in Ukraine from July 27, 2009. The new Istanbul-Lviv flight will operate thrice weekly – on Monday, Thursday and Sunday, in both directions. On the Istanbul-Lviv route, Turkish Airlines will offer promotional prices for a month – with roundtrip tickets starting at 99 euros, excluding taxes. Lviv will be Turkish Airlines’ 118th international destination as well as its 6th flight point in Ukraine, after Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Simferopol and Odessa. Turkish Airlines said in the statement that it would launch new flights between Istanbul in Turkey and Bologna in Italy; and between Izmir in Turkey and Athens in Greece. More information on flights of Turkish Airlines can be had from the carrier’s website www.thy.com Turkish Airlines, the national flag-carrier airline of Turkey, has started non-stop flights between Istanbul in Turkey and Toronto in Canada.

The Canadian carrier Porter Airlines announced its plans to build a new $45-million terminal in Toronto’s downtown island airport.

Emirates Airline, owned by the government of Dubai, will make the first commercial flight of Airbus A380 Superjumbo aircraft to Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada, on June 1, 2009.

Emirates Airline will introduce its double decker Airbus A380 aircraft on its Bangkok, Thailand and Toronto, Canada routes starting June 1, 2009 from Dubai.

Emirates to fly Airbus A380 Superjumbo on Toronto-Dubai route from June 1, 200.

Porter Airlines, a regional passenger carrier based at Toronto’s City Centre Airport in Canada, has launched a new service between Toronto City Centre Airport and Chicago’s Midway International Airport in the United States.

Porter Airlines, the regional passenger carrier based at Toronto City Centre Airport, Canada, will start flying to Midway International Airport, Chicago, the United States, from November 12, 2008.

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has ordered Porter Airlines Incorporated, a regional airline based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to “trim” its weekday schedule for flights from Toronto to Newark, New Jersey, the United States.