On 24 January 2016 Cargolux introduced the European Aviation Safety Agency’s Flight Time Limitations (EASA FTLs), the new flight and duty time limitations adopted by the European Parliament. The introduction was a first for an airline in Luxembourg and took place ahead of the mandated introduction date on 18 February. Besides harmonizing flight and duty … Read more
Due to its high growth rate the airline Ellinair, part of the holding company Mouzenidis Group, expands its destination network by connecting popular Greek destinations with high-demand cities abroad. Maintaining its traditional destinations, the immediate objective of the company is to expand its flight program in Western and Central Europe while strengthening the cooperation with the … Read more
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced delivery of two leased Airbus A320 aircraft to AtlasGlobal to expand the Turkish carrier’s fleet. AtlasGlobal operates scheduled and charter services from its base in Instanbul with a fleet of some 20 aircraft. GE Capital Aviation Services is an … Read more
easyJet has today announced it has added 12 weekly summer flights from London Luton Airport to Amsterdam and Barcelona and an extra daily flight to Zurich next winter. easyJet has also announced its intentions to double its daily flights to Switzerland’s largest city, Zurich next winter. The airline is seeing strong growth at Luton and … Read more
First sharklet equipped A320 plane already flying with TAP colours. TAP Portugal is the first airline in Europe to modify its medium-haul fleet of aircraft by installing sharklet devices, having just completed the installation on an A320 airplane. CS – TMW, ‘Luísa Todi’, is the first in its fleet to benefit from the modification. The … Read more
The first ten aircraft of the type Airbus A350-900 will be based in Munich from January 2017. This will equip Lufthansa’s second-largest hub with the world’s most modern long-haul passenger aircraft. The A350-900 is also one of the most environmentally friendly aircraft. “We are delighted that we are able to offer the most modern aircraft … Read more
Cargolux Airlines International S.A. returns to Rio de Janeiro with a full freighter service starting 4 March 2016. Flight CV7645 leaves Luxembourg on Fridays at 12.00h and arrives in Rio de Janeiro at 23.30h (all times GMT). The flight continues to Viracopos before returning to Europe as CV7656. Arrival in Luxembourg is scheduled for Saturdays … Read more
Wizz Air today announced it will begin base operations in September at David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport with one A320 aircraft and add seven new routes to Europe. Wizz Air will launch new twice-weekly service from Kutaisi to Berlin Schönefeld, Munich Memmingen, Milan Bergamo, Dortmund, Larnaca and Sofia, while flights between Kutaisi and Thessaloniki … Read more
Boeing today announced that Swiss International Air Lines (Swiss) has signed agreements for several Boeing solutions to increase efficiency and streamline maintenance performance tasks across the airline’s global operations. The tools from Boeing – Airplane Health Management, Maintenance Performance Toolbox and Loadable Software Airplane Part Services (LSAP Services) –will leverage real-time information to optimize SWISS … Read more
Flybe has confirmed details of a new daily flight between Southampton and Lyon as part of its 2016 Summer schedule. This is the second route it has announced to be operated under the Government’s Regional Air Connectivity Fund. There are excellent transport connections from Lyon for onward travel within France thanks to direct, high speed … Read more