Airline News - Europe.Oct 23, 2006 Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. Austrian Airlines Group reduced its fuel charge to [euro]52 ($65.20) from [euro]62 to all long-haul destinations except Australia. Oct 19, 2006 Comair Comair and its 970 flight attendants represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor reached a tentative labor agreement last week. The carrier was granted permission to void its previous deal over the summer and said it would impose new terms See suggestions for new terms. from Nov. 15. The union said the deal is for four years and includes a 7.5% pay cut, the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported. Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said Comair cabin staff remain the best paid in the US Regional market. Union members will vote on the new agreement by Nov. 14. Oct 17, 2006 Finnair Finnair said that it will be able to operate some domestic and European scheduled flights should a strike planned by the Finnish flight attendants union begin this morning. The flights would run on irregular schedules. An MD-11 would be operated to London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle and smaller aircraft to Brussels, Stockholm Arlanda and Tallinn. No long-haul flights will be operated except for a cargo service to Beijing. Domestic destinations will include at least Oulu, Kuopio and Tampere. If the strike threat is cancelled, flights will run normally today. Oct 19, 2006 Icelandair Icelandair will launch new services from Keflavik to Bergen (thrice-weekly), Gothenburg (twice-weekly) and Halifax (thrice-weekly) next spring and will increase frequencies to Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Boston and 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. It will discontinue its San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden service today. By spring it will offer 150 weekly flights from KEF kef n. Variant of kif. , a 17% increase over the 2006 schedule. Oct 18, 2006 JAT Airways Jat Airways is the national airline of Serbia and the former national carrier of Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade. It operates scheduled domestic, regional and international services to over 40 destinations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as charters and wet JAT Airways will launch operations next month from its secondary hub Nis, the third-largest city in Serbia, to Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Basel and Dusseldorf. Oct 19, 2006 LTU LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology; formerly Luleå Tekniska Högskola) LTU Lithuania LTU La Trobe University (Australia) LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH German Airlines LTU German Airlines added two flights each weekday between Dusseldorf and Munich. Oct 19, 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). will increase long-haul frequencies during the winter schedule with the addition of two A330-200s to its fleet. Zurich-Miami service will rise to daily from five-times-weekly. Santiago via Sao Paulo service will increase to six weekly flights from five and flights to Riyadh and Jeddah will be four-times-weekly instead of three. Swiss will return a leased A300-600 used on East African routes while boosting service to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Largest city (pop., 1995 est.: 1,747,000), capital, and major port of Tanzania. Founded in 1862 by the sultan of Zanzibar, it came under the German East Africa Co. in 1887. to five-times-weekly from three. Oct 19, 2006 Swiss International Swiss International, in cooperation with Lufthansa there will be 580 flights per week between Switzerland and Germany. Swiss will add flights from Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. to Hamburg and Stuttgart. To stabilize its European schedule, it will lease an F100 from Helvetic Airways to provide lift on its Zurich-Manchester service from Oct. 28 until Feb. 28. It will operate 45 aircraft during the winter schedule and its Swiss European Air Lines Swiss European Air Lines is a subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines, operating as the latter on some of its short haul routes. Swiss International Air Lines, also known as SWISS, is the successor of Swissair, following that company's grounding in 2001. subsidiary will have 24. Beginning with the new winter schedule, several Star Alliance members will move into Swiss International's terminal in Zurich, making it the third airport to consolidate Star carriers following Paris Charles de Gaulle and Tokyo Narita. Oct 19, 2006 Swiss International Swiss International Air Lines will operate more intercontinental flights as of the new winter timetable, the increase made possible by the integration of two additional Airbus A330 aircraft into the fleet in November and December. As under the summer timetable, Swiss will serve 69 destinations in winter (27 intercontinental and 42 in Europe) in 42 countries. Another 14 destinations will be served directly from Zurich in codeshare operation with various partners. The winter timetable is valid from October 29, 2006, until March 24, 2007. Oct 18, 2006 Swiss International Swiss International Air Lines said Friday that it has been forced to cancel 112 flights, or 2.7% of its operations, through Oct. 27 because of a pilot shortage. It cancelled 11 flights last weekend. Flights to Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Birmingham, Brussels, Milan Malpensa and Warsaw will be affected over the next two weeks. Swiss said the decision was forced by an unusually high rate of pilots calling in sick. The carrier faced a two-day strike Sept. 26-27 by pilots flying for its Swiss European Air Lines subsidiary and canceled 142 flights. Oct 17, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 16, 2006 |
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