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Ryanair announced it would open its 48th base at Billund Airport in March 2012 with 2 based aircraft and 19 routes, delivering 800,000 passengers p.a. In addition to Ryanair’s existing 14 Billund routes, the airline will open five new routes from Billund to Carcassonne, Corfu, Krakow, Venice and Zadar, all of which go on sale on ryanair.com tomorrow (7th Dec) and bring to 19 the number of routes offered from Billund by Ryanair in summer 2012. Ryanair celebrated its new Billund base (No 48) by...
Continuing the expansion of its low-fare, nonstop service from Kansas City, Frontier Airlines today said it will launch nonstop seasonal service between Kansas City (MCI) and Tampa (TPA). The twice-weekly service will operate Feb. 15 through April 14, 2012, on Tuesday or Wednesday and on Saturday. Introductory fares on the nonstop Kansas City-Tampa route begin at $99 each way. The fares are available at FrontierAirlines.com/introfares through Dec. 11, 2011, for travel through Feb. 29, 2012....
Air China will launch non-stop, four weekly flights from Gatwick to Beijing starting on the 2nd May 2012. The flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with A330-200. Services will depart Gatwick Airport at 13.15 and arrive at Beijing airport at 06:25 local time the following day. Return journeys will leave Beijing at 01:35 and arrive at Gatwick at 05:50 local time the same day. The new services mean that Air China will operate to both Heathrow and Gatwick London airports....
SWISS is taking the opportunity offered by today’s opening of the new Dock B at Zurich Airport to unveil its own innovations for travellers to and from its home-base hub. SWISS premium customers using the new dock’s non-Schengen zone can enjoy the advanced new Lounge D, with 650 square metres of space to work or relax in. And for all inbound Business Class customers whose flights are not assigned a dock stand, SWISS is introducing a new and exclusive bus service from the aircraft. In a further...
Scandinavian Airlines has ordered new seats for its shorth-haul fleet. The next generation seats from Recaro offer improved comfort for customers, who get additional leg room, whilst the lightweight seats weigh less and are thereby better for the environment. During 2012, eight Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be refitted with the new seats, a total of 1484 seats, and SAS thereafter plans to install the seats on further aircraft the following year. “This investment results in more comfortable...
Air China will resume its direct rotations between Shanghai and Paris starting March 10, 2012, and the existing Shanghai-Beijing-Paris services (CA933/4) will be rescheduled to become direct rotations between Beijing and Paris operated with B777-300ER. Details: CA833/4, Shanghai-Paris-Shanghai, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, departing at 00:15 from Shanghai Pudong and at 12:30 from Paris CA933/4, Beijing-Paris-Beijing, daily, departing at 13:30 from Beijing and at 19:30 from...
Emirates’ A380 route network extended to Germany today with the launch of services to Munich. At the same time, Emirates became the first foreign carrier to offer a scheduled A380 service to Germany, a key country involved with its production, and supporting 40,000 jobs in Germany alone. The double decker will operate as EK 049, one of two daily flights from Dubai to Munich and among the airline’s 60 flights a week to four gateways in Germany; Munich, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt. “After...
Singapore Airlines today welcomed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) approval of its proposed alliance with Virgin Australia. The ACCC’s determination represents the final regulatory approval needed for SIA and Virgin Australia to proceed with their wide-ranging alliance. Customers will be able to earn and redeem frequent-flyer miles on SIA and Virgin Australia flights by the end of the year and codesharing is expected to commence early next year. Under the alliance,...
Wizz Air announced today that it would open a new route from Bucharest to Palma de Mallorca (Spain) from 23 June 2012. Palma de Mallorca is the capital city of the autonomous region of the Balearic Islands and one of the most attractive summer destinations in Europe. Over 10 million tourists visit the island every year in search of Sun, Sea and Sand. The Wizz Air service will be operated twice a week initially (Monday’s and Friday’s). With this new service and the one to Verona announced...
Hong Kong Airlines is to acquire more than 50 new aircraft over the next four years, as part of a major expansion of its operations on international and Chinese domestic routes. Together with its sister carrier, Hong Kong Express, the carrier currently operates a fleet of 18 aircraft – eight wide-bodied Airbus A330-200s and ten narrow bodied Boeing 737s – to 23 destinations in China, north and southeast Asia and Moscow. Both airlines are operated by HNA Group of China, with the group now...
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