Low Cost Airline News.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Sep 4, 2006 Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation confirmed that six companies are pursuing licenses to operate as commercial air carriers as part of the drive to liberalize lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . air transport in the kingdom. Two are low-fare startup Sama and business and corporate transport specialist National Air Services. GACA GACA General Authority of Civil Aviation (Saudi Arabia) GACA Georgia Addiction Counselors Association GACA Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 identified the remaining four as travel group Al-Tayar, the Al-Mamlaka company operating as Burj Airlines, Petrogal operating as Al-Watan Airlines and the Saudi Ikhwan trading company. Application evaluation will continue until Sept. 30 with a decision scheduled by year end. Aug 28, 2006 Air Asia Air Asia is to introduce daily flights from Singapore's low cost terminal to Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, from Wednesday October 4. Flight time is around 3.5 hours and the carrier, founded in 2001, will compete with the already established Singapore Airlines  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and 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. . Headed by the dynamic Tony Fernandes Dato' Anthony Francis Fernandes (born 1964; also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". Air Asia currently has a current fleet of 35 Boeing 737-300, and nine Airbus A320, its route network spanning ten countries covering Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, http://www.airasia.com Sep 2, 2006 Air Berlin, Niki Niki will start a double-daily Vienna-Frankfurt service Oct. 30 using A320s. Niki and partner Air Berlin transported about 1 million passengers from Austria to six German cities last year, and Niki had a passenger increase of 15% across its network in the first half of 2006. It added the sixth A320 Wednesday. Founder Niki Lauda Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (born February 22, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian aviator, entrepreneur, former Formula One (F1) racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion. Early years in racing Born in Vienna to a wealthy family, he was born and raised a Roman Catholic. told this website that he will launch new Vienna-Moscow flights for the 2007 summer schedule. Sep 1, 2006 AirAsia AirAsia posts strong annual profit. AirAsia reported net income of MYR MYR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Malaysian Ringgit. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 126.9 million ($34.3 million) for its fiscal year ended June 30, an increase of 14% over net income of MYR111.6 million last year, on a 28% jump in revenues to MYR856 million. Aug 30, 2006 AirAsia AirAsia's traffic was up 37% to 6.7 billion RPKs on a 32% capacity gain to 8.7 billion ASKs. Load factor climbed 3 points to 78%. Lower fares and a 14% increase in average stage length reduced yields 4% while unit costs rose 6% to 2.33 cents per ASK. The carrier added 15 aircraft during the fiscal year and plans to add 14 A320s in the current year started July 1. It took over most domestic routes previously operated by Malaysia Airlines from Aug. 1 in a reconfiguration imposed by the government. Aug 30, 2006 AirAsia AirAsia's fiscal fourth-quarter net income was MYR39.1 million, more than double net income of MYR16.1 million in the year-ago quarter, on a 21% rise in revenues to MYR241.8 million. Traffic increased 37% to 1.98 billion RPKs on a 25% lift in capacity to 2.39 billion ASKs. Aug 30, 2006 AirAsia Thailand AirAsia Thailand posted a THB THB In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Thai Baht. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 36 million ($954,140) net loss for the fourth quarter. AirAsia Indonesia also recorded a net loss in the quarter, Fernandes said, but the exact figure was not disclosed. "We believe Indonesia is on track to achieve breakeven for FY07," he claimed. Aug 30, 2006 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways is a low-cost airline that is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, USA and is a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings. AirTran operates over 750 daily flights throughout the eastern USA and the Midwest, including over 270 daily departures from AirTran Airways and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor announced the ratification of a five-year labor agreement covering approximately 40 ground support equipment mechanics and related employees in Atlanta, Baltimore and Orlando. Aug 30, 2006 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways announced the cancellation of 31 flights yesterday and today into and out of Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. and Fort Myers Fort Myers, city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially as the area braces for Tropical Storm tropical storm n. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 kilometers (30 to 75 miles) per hour. tropical storm Ernesto. Other carriers announced revisions to rebooking and cancellation policies, and Delta Air Lines said it "proactively cancelled some flights." Aug 30, 2006 easyJet, Ryanair Ryanair and easyJet responded to proposals for low-fare services from the Maltese government. Ryanair proposed flights to the island nation from London Luton, Dublin and Pisa while easyJet offered flights from LTN LTN Location (irregular; usually seen as LCTN) LTN Lite-On LTN Lembaga Tembakau Negara (Malaysian; National Tobacco Board) LTN LeisureTime Network and Basel-Mulhouse, 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. press reports. Aug 28, 2006 Flyglobespan If business takes you to Belfast, and you want to save a bundle on business class and you don't mind flying through Orlando's alternative airport - Sanford - this might work for you. An airline called Flyglobespan starts once-weekly service from Orlando Sanford to the Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. city November 7. A three-class 767-300 will make the eastbound trip Tuesdays. http://www.flyglobespan.com Aug 30, 2006 Germanwings Germanwings will increase its presence at each of its four bases for the 2007 summer schedule. It will base an additional aircraft in Stuttgart and launch services to Ankara, Athens, Ibiza, Korfu, Lamezia Terme and Malta. Cologne Bonn will see two A319s/A320s added with new routes to Corfu, Lamezia Terme, Malta, Mykonos and Rhodes. From Berlin Schoenefeld it will add Mykonos and from Hamburg it will open routes to Corfu and Split. It also will boost frequencies on existing routes from all bases. Aug 31, 2006 Macaua Asia Express Macaua Asia Express has been established in the former Portuguese colony. Planned to become operational in the forth quarter of this year it will operate in a low cost model initially flying to new destinations in China mainland and Asia. The company is 51% owned by Air Macau and the balance by CNAC CNAC China National Aviation Corporation CNAC Canadian Network for Asthma Care CNAC Cisco Network Admission Control CNAC Car Now Acceptance Company CNAC Center for Naval Analyses Corporation (Alexandria, VA) whose investors China National Aviation Company and local gambling interests. Macau has a booming economy as a result of her emergence as the leisure and entertainment hub in the Pearl River Delta The Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) in China occupies the low-lying areas alongside the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl river flows into the South China Sea. Since the "Open Door Policy" was adopted by the Communist Party of China in the late 1970s, the portion of the delta in Region. It is expected that the airline will recruit managers from the airline and travel industry worldwide. http://www.macauasiaexpress.com Sep 2, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair has announced a deal that will see the airline's entire fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft fitted with OnAir's onboard mobile communications solution. The deal means that from mid-2007 (subject to relevant regulatory approval) Ryanair's passengers will be able to call, text and email using their mobile phones, BlackBerrys and Treos at rates which will mirror international roaming charges. OnAir intends to fit 50 Ryanair aircraft during the second half of 2007, with the remainder of the fleet receiving installations from early 2008 onwards. The big question is will the customers accept it? Rynair's last gimmick, hand held movie units, were not a success, and with the airline's quality reputation lacking (see YouGov brand index), and 29" seat pitch, it could be that passengers will rebel against the noisy chatter of fellow travelers. A 'quiet zone' on the 737s will be against the O'Leary principal of quick turnarounds. http://www.ryanair.com http://www.onair.aero Sep 2, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair will launch six new winter routes from the UK: Nottingham East Midlands to Grenoble (from Dec. 20) and Salzburg (Dec. 18), London Stansted to Klagenfurt (Dec. 19), Glasgow Prestwick to Grenoble (Dec. 18) and Liverpool to Grenoble and Salzburg (both Dec. 19). It also will start a new Dublin-Turin route on Dec. 20. Aug 31, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair files [pounds sterling]3 million claim against UK government. Ryanair followed through on its threat Friday and submitted a claim for compensation worth just over [pounds sterling]3 million ($5.7 million) to the UK Dept. for Transport. Aug 28, 2006 SkyEurope Airlines SkyEurope to raise [euro]56.3 million through investment and offering. SkyEurope Holding AG announced an agreement with York Global Finance II for injection of [euro]38.8 million ($49.6 million) of fresh capital into the airline as part of a [euro]56.3 million financing package that also will include a [euro]17.5 million public rights offering. York will purchase approximately 9 million new shares at [euro]1.75 each, while another 10 million new shares will be offered via a rights issue at the same price. York initially will own about 23% of the carrier's pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma shares and also will purchase [euro]6.7 million in bonds convertible into an additional 3.8 million new shares (raising its stake to 29.9%) and [euro]17 million of nonmandatory convertible bonds. Shareholder approval of the deal is expected at a Sept. 20 meeting. Regulatory approvals also are required. UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Investment Bank and CA-IB will act as lead managers of the rights issue. Aug 30, 2006 Sterling Airlines Sterling Airlines will launch six-times-weekly London Gatwick-Aalborg service on Sept. 18 with 737-500s/-700s. Aug 28, 2006 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. , Hapag-Lloyd Express TUI board announced yesterday that the company's two German airlines, leisure carrier Hapagfly and low-fare scheduled airline Hapag-Lloyd Express, will merge "in order to ensure that results targets in the tourism division are met. Even though margins remain under pressure, further efficiency improvements are being realized," TUI said. "Deterioration of exogenous market conditions in both areas of business [tourism and shipping]" has resulted in "unsatisfactory results and an unsatisfactory assessment of TUI AG on the capital markets." Further details will be determined by December. Sep 1, 2006 |
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