Low Cost Airline News - Europe.Jan 22, 2007 Air Berlin Air Berlin will start a weekly Munich-Ras Al Khaimah service from Feb. 10 aboard 737-800s. It will be the first AB flight to the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. and will be operated for a German tour company. Jan 9, 2007 AirAsturias AirAsturias will cease operations Jan. 26, just two months after it launched its first flight. The Oviedo-based carrier started with a leased A320 and currently flies to Madrid, Lisbon, Rome Fiumicino and Paris Charles de Gaulle. It had intended to expand to Brussels and Amsterdam. Reportedly, it is seeking to relaunch with long-haul A340 service to 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. via Madrid. Jan 19, 2007 Brussels Airlines SN Brussels Airlines SN Brussels Airlines (SNBA) was a former national airline of Belgium, which mainly operated from Brussels Airport. SNBA was the trading name of the Belgian airline Delta Air Transport. SNBA was a full-service airline, connecting Brussels with the rest of Europe. and Virgin Express, which will merge into Brussels Airlines on March 25, carried a combined 5.94 million passengers in 2006, up 8% over the combined total in 2005. Jan 17, 2007 EasyJet EgyptAir now issues e-tickets on all its domestic routes and can do so to some international destinations as well. According to the Arab Air Carriers Organization, remaining international routes should be e-ticket enabled by the end of March. Interline in·ter·line 1 tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines To insert between printed or written lines. in capabilities should be in place by the end of this month. Jan 15, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet will launch four-times-weekly Newcastle-Krakow service from April 1, a twice-daily Newcastle-Mahon service from July 14 and a thrice-weekly Bristol-Bordeaux flight (launch date not provided) that will become daily in June. Jan 12, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet transported 2.6 million passengers in December, up 11.2% on the year-ago month. Load factor rose 0.6 point to 81.2%. Jan 9, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet cancelled most flights to and from Bristol Friday and Saturday and diverted the remainder to Cardiff because of concerns over the reliability of a newly resurfaced runway in wet weather conditions. British Airways and XL Airways also canceled or diverted some flights, according to press reports. "The safety of its passengers, crew and aircraft is easyJet's first priority and this decision has been taken following extensive discussions with Bristol International Airport Bristol International Airport (IATA: BRS, ICAO: EGGD) is the commercial airport serving the city of Bristol and much of the Southwest of England. and the UK Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt ," the LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. said in a statement. AFX AFX atypical fibroxanthoma. News reported that the airline was concerned over "several recent incidents in which planes had slid on the runway or overshot overshot protruding. overshot fetlock see knuckling over. overshot jaw See brachygnathia. Called also parrot mouth. it." Jan 8, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair will launch service from Dublin to Bydgoszcz and Gdansk in May, bringing to 22 the number of new European destinations it will serve from the Irish capital this summer. It also will increase frequencies from DUB to Bratislava, Biarritz, Carcassonne, Kaunas, Krakow, Malaga, Murcia, Riga and Rome Ciampino. The LCC expects to carry 9 million passengers through Dublin this year. Jan 10, 2007 TUIfly, Hapagfly and Hapag-Lloyd Express TUIfly is scheduled to launch services under its new name today. The carrier is the result of the merger announced last month of Hapagfly and Hapag-Lloyd Express, whose brands will disappear from the market. TUIfly expects to fly 13.5 million passengers in 2007, up 22% from the number transported by HLX HLX Hapag Lloyd Express (German airline) HLX High Luxury and Hapagfly together last year. Jan 15, 2007 Wizz Air Wizz Air will base a second A320 in Gdansk from July and launch services to Doncaster Sheffield (four-times-weekly from July 28) and Malmo (thrice-weekly from July 29). Jan 12, 2007 01/22/2007 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Jan 8, 2007 |
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