Wizz Air announces new routes to Budapest and Cluj-Napoca from Bucharest

Wizz Air today announced a new route from Bucharest to Budapest and a domestic route from Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca, another of Wizz Air’s five bases in Romania. Wizz Air will begin the Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca route 22 July with six weekly flights, operating every day except Saturday. The Bucharest to Budapest service begins 19 September … Read more

LOT flies to Tokyo

The first plane from Warsaw landed in Japan’s capital. LOT’s Dreamliner was welcomed by celebration for passengers at the airport. The just launched Warsaw-Narita service is the first-ever and sole link between Poland and Japan and it provides a greater convenience for both Japanese and European passengers. For passengers from Poland and the countries of … Read more

Etihad Regional announces new route Lugano – Sion

Etihad Regional, operated by Darwin Airline, today confirmed that it will be offering weekly Sunday flights to Sion from Lugano for the whole summer 2016. The flights, operated weekly from May 8th to September 18th, will connect two scenic Swiss locations with a 35 minute flight and serve summer mountain sports fans. Sion, the capital … Read more

Iberia to launch flights to Tokyo and Shanghai

Iberia has announced non-stop flights from Madrid to both Tokyo and Shanghai.  Luis Gallego, Iberia’s Chairman and CEO, says: “We have always wanted to be a global airline. With these routes to Tokyo and Shanghai, we take a step in that direction, while we bring closer our country to two economical and touristic powers such as Japan … Read more

Flybe announces three more summer routes from Southampton

British regional airline boosts 2016 Summer programme with two brand new routes to Biarritz and Toulon and return of peak summer flights to Bastia. Flybe has announced a further expansion of its 2016 Summer programme from Southampton Airport with the news today of two brand new routes to Biarritz and Toulon Hyeres, and the return of … Read more

Court ruling definitive on Etihad Airways-airberlin codeshare dispute

Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10

Etihad Airways today welcomed the ruling by the higher administrative court in Luneburg reversing an earlier judgment and allowing it to continue operating 26 out of the 31 codeshare flights for the full Winter Schedule, which ends on 26 March 2016. The court definitively ruled that 26 of the 31 codeshares are lawful. Together with … Read more

Xiamen Airlines and KLM intensify partnership with long-term maintenance agreement and more code-shares

Today, 15 January 2016, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Xiamen Airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Xiamen for the exclusive, long-term maintenance of Xiamen Airlines’ GEnx General Electric engines. These next-generation engines will power the six brand-new Boeing 787-8 aircraft that Xiamen Airlines has ordered. Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance offer a … Read more

Finnair secured financing for its third A350 aircraft

Finnair has secured financing, arranged by BNP Paribas, for its third Airbus A350-900 XWB, which was delivered on 30 December 2015. The transaction amounts to approximately EUR 135 million, implemented using a Japanese Operating Lease with Call Option (JOLCO) structure, where the transaction amount is treated in Finnair’s IFRS accounting as a loan and the … Read more