Turkish Airlines inaugurated three flights a week between Mogadishu and Istanbul, via Djibouti.
Domestically, Jubba has inaugurated Antonov flights to Baidoa, a central Somalian town known as "the City of Death" during the devastating famine of the early 1990s; and Kismayu, a strategic southern port held by Al Shabaab until last November, when Kenyan AMISOM troops drove out the militiamen.
The Graf Zeppelin inaugurated transatlantic flight service, and by the time of its decommissioning in 1937 had made 590 flights, including 144 ocean crossings, and had flown more than 1.6 million km (1 million miles).
Air Canada inaugurates direct flights this spring from Montreal to Albany and Manchester, N.H., and is in the process of linking San Jose, Calif., and Calgary and Ottawa.
Johannes Davoras, spokesman for Austrian Airlines, said that despite scattered cancellations, Austrian will expand service to the United States, inaugurating direct flights from Vienna to Chicago and Washington next week.
The airline inaugurated scheduled revenue flights on 11 February 1983, with Flight 101 departing Paro for Kolkata and returning the next day as Flight 102.
The Shenzhen Airlines flight from China — along with a later TransAsia Airways flight to Shanghai from the Taiwanese capital, Taipei — inaugurated regular direct flights between Taiwan and mainland China.
A few months ago, Turkish Airways inaugurated twice-weekly flights between Istanbul and Mogadishu.
On Jan . 21 , 1976it inaugurated supersonic Concorde flights, initially from Paris to Rio de Janeiro; in 1982 that route and others were cut owing to their unprofitability, leaving Paris New York as the sole Concorde route.
My father met her in Cairo when, as a pilot, he was inaugurating a flight between Rio and Cairo.
