Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
British Airways is to start flights to Mexico’s most important tourist destination with two direct flights a week from London Gatwick to Cancun from November 2010. A Boeing 777 will serve the route, offering a choice of three cabins, including BA’s Club World business class with fully flat beds. Richard Tams, head of UK & [...]
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The new emirates.com mobile website now let its visitors control every aspect of the flight, including making a booking, from whereever they are. Book your flights, choose your seats, check in on-line and more all from your mobile phone browser. See what you can do from the Emirates mobile website: - Make a booking - [...]
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
LAN, Chile’ flag carrier, plans a partnership with Aeroasis to start operating in the Colombian market. The first step for the Chilean airline is to help the Colombian company to get the permit to operate in Colombia. LAN states: “LAN’s firm interest is that once Aeroasis obtains its operating permit, the Colombian airline may become [...]
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Monday, the world’s biggest airline was born from the merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, two US based carriers. The new airline will use the United Airlines name and will be headed by the Continental CEO, Jeff Smisek, while Glenn Tilton, United CEO will be non-executive chairman till the end of 2012. The two airlines together [...]
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Swiss, the principal airline of Switzerland, is adding a further more long-haul destination to its network in the 2010 summer schedule. The new destination is San Francisco. The Swiss schedule will cover 73 destinations in 39 countries and over 50 further points will be served non-stop from Zurich under codeshare agreements. Thanks to a partnership [...]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Lufhtansa, the German airline, is increasing the frquency of its service to Orlando from next December. The Dusseldorf- Orlando service will have three weekly routes instead of two. Lufthansa is also going to open a new route London Heatrow – Dresden using the BMI Airbus A319 aircraft. This service will be operative from April 19th [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
After the liberalisation of UK-US air traffic in 2008, last year we witnessed a fall in passengers of 10% in the UK to US routes. In 2008 and 2009, the share of UK to US traffic generated by airports other than Heathrow and Gatwick fell from 18% to 14%. In fact, Heathrow’s share of scheduled [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Fearing potential staff cuts, Lufthansa‘s highly-paid pilots took to the picket lines on Monday, plunging the airline into its longest ever strike and forcing the carrier to cancel hundreds of flights. Read full article: Lufthansa Pilots on Strike
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
KLM, the Royal Dutch Airline, has launched a new service to Aruba from all UK airports. Aruba has miles of amazing beaches, plenty of resorts and a small main town, Oranjestad, ideal for day-trip stroll. Venture away from the resorts and you will discover more of Aruba with uncrowded beaches and Arikok National Wildlife Park. [...]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Swiss International Airlines will launch direct flight to San Francisco on the 2nd of June 2010. The route Zurich – San Francisco will have 6 weekly services on board Airbus A340-300.
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