Airline News - Europe.Oct 2, 2006 Aeroflot Aeroflot launched a thrice-daily Moscow Sheremetyevo-Hannover service aboard a Tu-154M. Sep 25, 2006 Aeroflot Aeroflot opened a new office in Yekaterinburg, which it serves four-times-daily at a 76% load factor. The airline said it "considers the Ural region as the priority one in implementing of the company's strategy aimed at development of domestic conveyances." While not wanting to comment on any upcoming network changes, Turner acknowledged that bmi is looking at ways to use its slot position at LHR LHR Love-Hate Relationship LHR Lahore (Pakistan) LHR Laser Hair Removal LHR Lawyers for Human Rights LHR Left Hand Reverse (door opening convention) LHR Lung-To-Head Ratio LHR League for Human Rights more effectively. It holds about 12% of the slots and uses them predominantly for short-haul routes. On Oct. 29 it will launch its first medium-haul route, to Moscow Domodedovo. The three-times-daily service operated with an A320 also will see the introduction of a new business class product with free inflight entertainment and 24 seats in a 2-2 configuration. The Brice leather seats will have a 41-in. pitch, 7-in. recline re·cline v. re·clined, re·clin·ing, re·clines v.tr. To cause to assume a leaning or prone position. v.intr. To lie back or down. and 21-in. width. Economy class will receive complimentary catering. Last year, bmi moved to a single-class economy service on its domestic and European network from Heathrow with the exception of certain core business routes--Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Brussels. Sep 25, 2006 Alitalia Alitalia unions have called off 24-hr. strikes planned for tomorrow and Oct. 9 after the government agreed to hold a meeting with workers' representatives on Oct. 10, 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. Transport Minister Alessandro Bianchi said the government will present a new business plan for the airline by year end. Sep 28, 2006 Aviareps, Vietnam Airlines Vietnam Airlines (Vietnamese: Tổng Công ty Hàng không Việt Nam) is the national flag carrier of Vietnam, and was established as a state enterprise in April 1989. Aviareps will represent Vietnam Airlines in the Austrian market. Sep 29, 2006 Belavia Belarusian Airlines Belavia Belarusian Airlines launched weekly Minsk-Frankfurt Hahn service. Sep 26, 2006 Bmi Bmi is testing a security line reserved for its own passengers at London Heathrow, 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. Nigel Turner confirmed. The trial started some months ago and was suspended temporarily following the Aug. 10 security alert. The bmi-only line is located in Terminal 1 and aims to speed up the lengthy waiting times passengers face to get through LHR's security. "Heathrow needs to improve its transfer product if it wants to maintain its lead position in Europe," said Turner, who also would like to see "an end to airports behaving in a monopolistic manner. We need more competition [between airports] in London and in Scotland as well. I'm confident this will come." The Aug.10 alert cost bmi some [pounds sterling]5 million, although Turner said it also had a positive effect: "It brought the airlines and the airport operator closer, for once." Sep 28, 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. ASIG ASIG Association Suisses et Internationaux de Genève (Geneva Swiss International Association; Geneva, Switzerland) ASIG Aerospace Special Interest Group ASIG Africa Special Interest Group will provide into-plane fueling services for British Airways at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Airport, which opened earlier today. Sep 28, 2006 Eastern Airways Eastern Airways began six-times-weekly Inverness-Newcastle service aboard a Jetstream 41. It will offer twice-daily weekday flights between Durham Tees Valley The Tees Valley is an area the North East of England. It can be described as "greater Teesside" and consists of the four unitary authorities created by the breakup of the County of Cleveland in 1996: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-On-Tees along with and Brussels International Airport from Oct. 30, also aboard a Jetstream 41. Sep 25, 2006 Finnair Finnair plans to add a fifth daily flight from Helsinki to Paris CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. from Nov. 1 and a fifth daily service to Copenhagen from Jan. 1. Sep 27, 2006 Flybe Flybe will launch a four-times-weekly Southampton-Nice service from March 25. Sep 27, 2006 Hapagfly, Hapag Lloyd Express , TUI tui: see honeyeater. (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application. Hapagfly and Hapag Lloyd Express integration is reflected in the release Friday of a joint flight schedule for 2007, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. parent TUI Group. "With the joint flight schedule for summer 2007 we have reached the first major milestone on the path to integrating Hapagfly and HLX HLX Hapag Lloyd Express (German airline) HLX High Luxury ," said Hapagfly Executive Board Chairman Christoph Mueller, who also sits on the executive board of TUI. The schedule will show a capacity increase of 25% over the summer of 2006 with 56 aircraft. Oct 2, 2006 KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) KLM will reduce its fuel surcharge by [euro]5 ($6.36) per segment on all intercontinental flights and by [euro]1 per segment on all intra-European flights in response to falling oil prices on tickets issued as of Sept. 28. Sep 28, 2006 KLM KLM will increase its 777-200ER Amsterdam-Chengdu service to thrice-weekly from twice-weekly on May 28. Sep 26, 2006 Silverjet Silverjet, a proposed UK startup that plans to offer transatlantic low-fare, all-business-class service, named Katherine Gershon launch and international development director, George Henderson George Henderson may refer to:
Spanair Spanair will launch service from Madrid to Granada (six-times-daily), San Sebastian (four-times-daily), Almeria (six-times-daily) and Stuttgart (daily) and from Barcelona to Valencia (six-times-daily) and Granada (four-times-daily) from Oct. 29. It said the domestic routes are designed for business travelers and will boost passenger numbers by 400,000 in 2007. Sep 27, 2006 Swiss International The strike by Swiss European Pilots disrupted the travel of approximately 8900 passengers. To limit the impact on travellers as much as possible, SWISS rebooked them on to other flights, purchased capacity from other airlines, distributed railway tickets and deployed larger aircraft on heavily travelled routes. Hotel accommodation was found for the 120 people who could not reach their destination yesterday. Sep 27, 2006 Teledyne, Neos, Boeing Teledyne received an order from Neos of Italy for AirFASE, the flight data monitoring software developed jointly with Airbus, which the airline will use to monitor its fleet of 737NGs and 767-300ERs. Sep 25, 2006 TUI TUI said the new organizational structure  This article has no lead section.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, one should be written. "envisages a division of work between flight operations and marketing," allowing "the controlled migration of Hapagfly as a production unit and HLX as a marketing unit to the new low-cost platform with strong Internet sales." Mueller described Hapagfly as "a quality carrier" while HLX is "a successful marketing and sales concept." Highest growth is expected in the low-cost sector and the aim is to generate 60% of bookings from these activities and 40% through the tour operator business. A decision on a common brand will be made by the end of October at the latest. Oct 2, 2006 Virgin Atlantic Virgin Atlantic Airways is now providing passengers with "live text news" from Sky News on seatback seat·back also seat back n. The back of a chair or other type of seating. television screens. Sep 25, 2006 Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public. Mission Businessman uses frequent flier miles for space trip. A British businessman has traded in his 2 million frequent flier miles for a trip into space. Alan Watts will travel on Virgin Galactic's first commercial tourism flights to space in 2009. Sep 29, 2006 VLM Airlines VLM Airlines doubled its capacity between London City and Amsterdam this month, increasing weekday service to 12-times-daily from nine on Sept. 18. It flew the route six-times-daily until Sept. 4. It will operate a Saturday service for the first time and add a third Sunday flight. It will double the number of F50s stationed at AMS AMS - Andrew Message System from two to four. Sep 27, 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 Sep 25, 2006 |
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