Low Cost Airline News - Europe.Jun 18, 2007 Air Berlin Air Berlin announced executive changes at its dba subsidiary. Former Lufthansa, Hapag-Lloyd and 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. executive Wolfgang Kurth will head the technology and finance departments and former Etihad Airways Etihad Airways (Arabic: الإتحاد, ʼal-ʻitiħād) is the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates. Etihad is based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE. VP-Operations Helmut Weixler will lead flight operations. MDs Martin Gauss (operative personnel and commercial department) and Peter Wojahn (technology, finance and personnel) will leave the company. Jun 15, 2007 Brussels Airlines Brussels Airlines is a Belgian airline based at Brussels Airport. It operates to over 50 destinations in 20 European countries, as well as long-haul flights to East, Central and West Africa. Brussels Airlines plans to make a fleet renewal decision next year, 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. Philippe Vander Putten Philippe Vander Putten (b. 1959) is a Belgian businessman and CEO of Brussels Airlines. Education Vander Putten earned a masters degree in IAG Management at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He obtained an MBA at the University of South Carolina. recently said. "The choice to buy Airbus or Boeing is easy. The difficulty is to define what our future fleet requirements will be," he said. "What will our business model be? A lot will depend on how successful our new positioning [from a yield-oriented to a more volume-oriented carrier], will be. There is also the question: Do we pick up again some destinations we [Sabena] used to fly, like Tokyo, for instance?" Jun 11, 2007 Clickair Spanish carrier, Clickair, says it will become the first airline in the world to eliminate check-in. Jun 13, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet transported 3.3 million passengers in May, up 13.8% from the year-ago month. Load factor slipped 0.3 point to 83.6%. Jun 15, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet announced the addition of flights to Austria and Romania, bringing its network to 22 countries. Daily London Luton-Vienna service will begin Oct. 29 and daily Milan Malpensa-Bucharest Baneasa flights will launch sometime in September. Jun 15, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet Promotes New 'Green' Aircraft Design British low-cost airline easyJet has unveiled its vision of a short-haul aircraft that it hopes will generate 50 percent less CO2 than its current planes and can be delivered by 2015. Jun 14, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet reveals eco-friendly aircraft concept UK budget carrier EasyJet has revealed an aircraft design concept, which it claims could cut CO2 output by 50% and emitting less noise. EasyJet said that it says could fly by 2015. Jun 14, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair will expand operations at its Stockholm Skavsta base in October, adding a fifth and sixth Boeing 737-800 and launching 12 new routes during the month: Seven-times-weekly to Berlin Schoenefeld and Bratislava; four-times-weekly to Eindhoven, Baden Baden, Liverpool and Valencia; thrice-weekly to Alicante, Basel, Pisa and Porto, and twice-weekly to Trapani and Malta. A twice-weekly service to Salzburg will start in December. Ryanair said it expects to carry 2.5 million passengers to and from NYO NYO New York Observer (newspaper) NYO National Youth Orchestra (Great Britain) NYO Northside Youth Organization (Atlanta, GA) NYO Native Youth Olympics NYO Not Yet Out each year. Jun 15, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair yesterday claimed that it now is the world's largest international airline in terms of passengers, based on IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. statistics. 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. carried 40.5 million passengers on international flights in 2006 compared to Lufthansa's 38.2 million, Air France's 30.4 million and British Airways' 29.5 million. Low-cost rival easyJet was sixth with 21.9 million, with American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the the largest non-European carrier--and seventh overall--at 21.2 million. "Just 10 years ago most of the other airlines on this IATA ranking carried 10 times more passengers than Ryanair," the airline said. Jun 14, 2007 Ryanair, OnAir Ryanair's plans to launch inflight mobile phones in cooperation with OnAir have been delayed by four months as regulatory approval has taken longer than expected, the Irish Independent confirmed. The system has approval from relevant Irish authorties, but a handful of other countries, mainly in Scandinavia, have yet to agree. CEO Michael O'Leary Michael O'Leary is the name of a number of prominent people:
Wizz Air Wizz Air is a Polish/Hungarian low-cost airline focusing on the markets of Central Europe. Its main base is Katowice International Airport (Poland). It also has bases at Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (Hungary) , Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Poland), Gdańsk Lech Wizz Air, which calls itself a central European low cost airline, is to follow up its new routes from Bucharest to Valencia, Parma and Liverpool with the first ever flights between Tirgu Mures Mu·re·  or Mu·reul and Luton.
From Tuesday 30 October the airline will operate on a Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday between the two points with a scheduled flight scheduled flight schedule n → vol régulierscheduled flight schedule n → Linienflug m time of 2h 40m. Jun 14, 2007 Wizz Air Wizz Air is basing a third Airbus A320 in Warsaw and recently launched weekly flights to Bourgas and Corfu. Thrice-weekly service to Durham Tees Valley and Oslo Torp will begin July 28. In the past two weeks Wizz also has started flights from Katowice to Belfast (thrice-weekly), Eindhoven (thrice-weekly), Bourgas (weekly) and Heraklion (weekly). Next month it will launch thrice-weekly flights from KTW KTW Krankentransportwagen KTW Klippel-Trenaunay-Webber Syndrome KTW Katowice, Poland - Pyrzowice (Airport Code) KTW Korrektur- und Transportwesen (German: Change and Transport System, SAP) to Bournemouth (July 14) and Coventry (July 28) as well as services from Gdansk to Doncaster Sheffield (four-times-weekly from July 15) and Malmo (thrice-weekly from July 14). Jun 11, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar 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 AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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