Airline News - Europe.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Jul 10, 2006 Aeroflot Aeroflot started a twice-weekly Moscow-Yuzhno Sakhalinsk flight aboard a 767-300ER. Jul 7, 2006 Air Luxor
Air Luxor was a scheduled airline based in Lisbon, Portugal. It had a limited range of scheduled flights. Its main base was Portela Airport, Lisbon. The airline ceased operations in October 2006. Air Luxor, the somewhat oddly named Portuguese airline, has been sold by the Mirpuri Group to Longstock Financial, after completion of negotiations and due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. . Longstock represents the investments in Portugal of a group of Portuguese and Canadian financiers in the tourism and industrial manufacturing businesses. The airline, which at one time operated scheduled services between Gatwick and Lisbon, has a small fleet of Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft and operates scheduled flights to Sao Tome and Guinea Bissau to Lisbon as well as charter services. http://www.airluxor.com Jul 8, 2006 British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. British Airways is to launch a new five times per week Boeing 777 route to Calgary in Western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West from December 2006. British Airways completed its 777 deliveries back in 2001 although it has options on a further ten aircraft, which need to be confirmed or otherwise within a short time frame. The 'plane for this service is being sourced from the cessation of the Singapore - Melbourne route and reduction of Miami frequencies. The route is already served twice daily by Air Canada from Heathrow and with limited services by both Air Transat Air Transat A.T. Inc. is an airline based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, operating scheduled and charter flights and serving 90 destinations in 25 countries. The airline is owned and operated by Transat A.T. and Zoom from Gatwick. At the same time BA is stepping up frequencies to Sao Paulo to ten times a week, although there is still considerable criticism in the market place regarding South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. where Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. only gets four indirect services a week, Rio de Janerio three, and Santiago not served at all. The name of Robert Boyle, director of planning, British Airways, was attached to the press release, with quotes normally attributed to commercial director Martin George, now on gardening leave. http://www.ba.com Jul 8, 2006 British Airways British Airways will introduce an eighth daily flight between New York's John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in airport and London-Heathrow from December. With three services from Newark, British Airways offers 11 flights from the New York metro For the region, see . Metro New York is a free daily newspaper in New York City started in 2004. Its main competition is AM New York, with which it practices many of the same distribution and marketing strategies. area and provides the most comprehensive schedule between 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 and London.'' The new service is effective from December 1 and will operate as follows: Eastbound, BA 172 will depart JFK at 8:00 a.m. and arrive at London-Heathrow at 7:45 p.m. Westbound, BA 173 will depart London-Heathrow at 6:55 p.m. and arrive at JFK at 9:35 p.m. The new flight will operate on a Boeing 777 aircraft and will showcase the airline's suite of products with four classes of service: First, Club World (business class), World Traveller Plus (premium economy) and World Traveller (economy). British Airways' JFK services operate from Terminal 7. Jul 5, 2006 British Airways British Airways said on Wednesday that it plans to launch a new service from London Heathrow to Calgary in Canada on Dec. 1. BA said it will operate five flights each week on a Boeing 777 to the city in the Canadian province of Alberta. Jul 5, 2006 Iberia Iberia passengers should check carefully during this week regarding their pre-booked flights. The airline plans to cancel more than 200 flights per day (Iberia's figure - not a press exaggeration) as talks aimed at avoiding a strike called by the carrier's pilots have collapsed. The failure in industrial relations has been caused by plans for the airline to invest in Catair, a new low-cost carrier to be based in Barcelona, Spain's second-largest city. The company says that it has guaranteed that no pilots with will lose their jobs as a consequence of its 20% investment in the new airline, which will operate chiefly on point-to-point routes where Iberia cannot compete because of its high costs. http://www.iberia.com Jul 8, 2006 Monarch Airlines Monarch, which claims to be Britain's oldest airline operating under its original name, is to expand its Luton scheduled operations. From May 2007 the airline is to fly to Ibiza with up to five flights per week, Almeria, four flights per week whilst Palma Palma or Palma de Mallorca (päl`mä thā mälyôr`kä), city (1990 pop. 325,120), capital of Majorca island and of Baleares prov., Spain, on the Bay of Palma. goes from a single weekly rotation to nine flights. Faro Faro, town, Portugal Faro (fä`rō), town (1991 pop. 31,966), capital of Faro dist. and of Algarve, S Portugal. The southernmost town in Portugal, it is a seaport from which fish, fruit (especially dried figs), wine, and cork are will be daily. In all Monarch will serve 11 destinations from the north London airport, seven of which where they are the sole operator. As managing director Tim Jeans put it at a press conference last week, Monarch likes to think of itself "as a cut above" other low cost airlines in terms of its cabin service and what it has on offer. Well over 60% of Monarch passengers are thought to be overseas home owners, or travelers to properties abroad. With many clients traveling as much as six or seven times per year the airline's Vantage Club, with its free entry and many benefits, is proving very popular. Monarch Scheduled expects to handle 3m passengers this year, a 20% increase over 2005. Monarch currently has a fleet of seven Boeing 757, a single 767, a pair of Airbus A330, 13 Airbus A320 series and four A300. According to Mr. Jeans by 2009 the airline will be looking towards more standardization of the fleet and the replacement of the A300s. Tim Jeans does a good impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The of France soccer coach Raymond Domenech. He is seen here with Sarah Jane Knight (left) and Sonia Mexguuer. http://www.flymonarch.com Jul 8, 2006 |
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