Airline News - Europe.BACA Baca (bā`kə), in the Bible, allegorical name of a valley. The English expression "vale (or valley) of tears" may be a translation of this, through the Vulgate. , the long established (1945) Baltic Air Charter Association, presented its first dedicated air transport 'Excellence Awards' at the splendid and ancient Ironmonger's Hall in London's Barbican BARBICAN. An ancient word to signify a watch-tower. Barbicanage was money given for the support of a barbican. last week. Unlike most honors of this type the winners are selected in a vote by member companies. Best passenger airline award went to Virgin Atlantic, cargo to DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature whilst Dubai picked up the international airport honors. Mike Kay, the former British World Airways sales director, now based in Paris, proved to be an entertaining and informative MC. London Town Crier CRIER. An inferior officer of a court, whose duty it is to open and adjourn the court, when ordered by the judges; to make proclamations and obey the directions of the court in anything which concerns the administration of justice. Peter Moore helps with the presentation to Andrew Biggin, Head of Commercial Systems at Virgin Atlantic, by Wendy Murphy, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Direct Air Charter. http://www.baca.org.uk Apr 2, 2006 AirBaltic AirBaltic introduced a summer schedule, valid through Oct. 28, featuring nine new destinations available from its Riga and Vilnius bases. From Riga it launched six-times-weekly flights to Warsaw and thrice-weekly service to Bergen on March 26. It will start twice-weekly service to Simferopol on April 11, twice-weekly flights to Tbilisi on May 2, twice-weekly flights to Baku the following day and four-times-weekly service to Liepaja later in the month. Frequencies to 10 cities will increase and flights to London will land at Gatwick rather than Heathrow. From Vilnius, the addition of a 737-500 will help with service increases including six-times-weekly flights to Stockholm (launched March 26), twice-weekly flights to Budapest (started yesterday), daily service to Warsaw and thrice-weekly flights to Dusseldorf, both starting in June. Mar 29, 2006 Baltia Airlines Baltia Airlines, a startup that will serve St. Petersburg and the Baltics out of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK, said it has secured one 747 for use beginning later this year. Mar 29, 2006 Bmi Regional Bmi Regional launched Aberdeen-Amsterdam service yesterday. Flights operate thrice-daily weekdays, once on Saturday and twice on Sunday. Mar 28, 2006 British Airways, BMED BMED British Mediterranean Airways BMed Bachelor of Medicine BMEd Bachelor of Mathematics Education Ankara may have not been the easiest of places to get to in recent times, a situation now retrieved by British Airways in the form of franchise operator BMED with a new daily service (incidentally featuring a proper 2+2 business class - more anon a·non adv. 1. At another time; later. 2. In a short time; soon. 3. Archaic At once; forthwith. Idiom: ever/now and anon ) but it seems that predecessor BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. (British European Airways For other uses of BEA see Bea British European Airways, or BEA, was formed in 1946 by an Act of Parliament. It compulsorily acquired the aircraft fleets and routes of most UK private airlines then operating scheduled services within the UK and Europe. for you younger elements) has been involved with Turkey's capital since 1946 with a Vickers Viking, a sort of British version of the DC-3. It went Northolt - Marseilles - Rome (Ciampino) - Athens (Nightstop) - Istanbul - Ankara. Then the Viscount arrived which could make Rome nonstop followed in the sixties by a Comet 4B jet (10 first + 79 tourist) again via Rome, Athens, Istanbul. British Airways archives have the full details. Alexander (Lord) Heskith, BMED chairman, was in good form at the British embassy when the airline last week made its first landing . http://www.bamuseum.com Apr 2, 2006 British Jet British Jet is to fly to Cardiff from Malta this summer. In fact British Jet is not an airline, but an ATOL bonded tour operator. Nor is it British. British Jet is in fact a front for Malta Bargains Ltd., a company that has been offering holidays to Malta under the previous name of Malta Sun Holidays for the last 23 years. The aircraft used for the service are McDonnell Douglas MD-90s, owned and flown by Hello of Basel, chaired by the redoubtable re·doubt·a·ble adj. 1. Arousing fear or awe; formidable. 2. Worthy of respect or honor. [Middle English redoubtabel, from Old French redoutable, from Moritz Suter, he of Crossair and for a short period CEO of Swissair. British Jet will this summer fly out of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Gatwick, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted. http://www.britishjet.com Apr 2, 2006 CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology. Czech CSA Czech Airlines will increase its network with the new summer schedule. It is adding Odessa in the Ukraine and will start charter flights to the Cape Verde Islands Noun 1. Cape Verde Islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde - an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal . More frequencies will be added from Prague to Athens, Istanbul, Zagreb, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Yerevan, Yekaterinburg and Sarajevo. Domestic services from Prague to Ostrava will be increased to four daily flights and to Brno twice a day. For the summer it will renew its service to Newark. Services to Colombo, Birmingham, Baku and Gothenburg will be dropped. From April through June, CSA will take delivery of three new A320s. Mar 27, 2006 Eastern Airways Eastern Airways will launch service April 24 from Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. with routes to Brussels, Newcastle and Aberdeen from Cardiff International Airport Cardiff International Airport (Welsh: Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd) (IATA: CWL, ICAO: EGFF) is an major British airport located in the village of Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, approximately . The services, which will be operated by a 29-seat J41, include two flights each weekday to Brussels, three to Newcastle and a daily nonstop to Aberdeen. Eastern will set up a crew base at Cardiff for the services. Mar 27, 2006 JAT JAT is expected to decide by the end of this month that it will restart transatlantic service to New York and Toronto. It plans to use two 767-200ERs on the routes. It is also in the final phase of negotiations for the purchase of two Embraer 170s, sources close to the airline said. It will operate two 737-400s, five 737-300s and four ATR-72s on 177 weekly flights to 36 international and three domestic destinations during its summer schedule. Mar 31, 2006 LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines (Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, short name PLL LOT) is the national airline/flag carrier of Poland, based in Warsaw. It operates scheduled passenger and cargo services. Domestic services link Warsaw with ten cities. LOT Polish Airlines supervisory board named Polish Civil Aviation Office President Krzysztof Kapis the carrier's new president and CEO. He worked at LOT from 1975 to 2001, holding a variety of positions including commercial director and product and marketing director. LOT leased a seventh 767, a dash 300ER, for the summer season to increase service to North America. It will offer 16 weekly flights to New York (Newark and JFK) and 11 to Chicago O'Hare. From Krakow, LOT operates three flights per week to New York and six to O'Hare. It also is modernizing its transatlantic business class service. Four new Embraer 175s will appear on expanded European routes during the summer. It is developing its domestic network and will offer 20% more flights from Warsaw to 10 Polish cities. Mar 31, 2006 Lufthansa Lufthansa targets U.S. ethnic travelers. Lufthansa, recognizing the opportunity in some 35 million Americans with roots in Eastern and Central Europe, is urging them to return frequently to their homelands for holiday and family events. To succeed, the carrier had to overcome perceptions that its fares were expensive. To accomplish this, it launched WeFlyHome.com, a Web site loaded with travel deals, flight schedules and destination details for Russia, Greece, Israel, India and Poland. Ads ran in U.S. ethnic newspapers and on home country websites. The program was devised with Global Advertising Strategies, New York. Mar 27, 2006 Swiss International Swiss International Air Lines Swiss International Air Lines (short: Swiss) is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Kloten Airport (ZRH). has taken over Styrian Spirit flights on the Zurich-Graz and Zurich-Krakow routes through April, using Embraer 145s. Styrian operated the flights under a codeshare agreement with Swiss until ceasing operations last week. Mar 30, 2006 Swiss International will change terminals at Stockholm Arlanda and Tokyo Narita. In Stockholm it will move into Terminal 5, where most of its future Star Alliance partners are housed. From June 1 it will join its Star partners in the upgraded Terminal 1 at Narita. Mar 28, 2006 |
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