Vueling launches first flight from London Luton to Barcelona

Vueling has launched its first flight between London Luton and Barcelona. The Barcelona-based budget airline will operate twice-daily flights to the Catalan capital, with more than 125,000 seats available during the summer season. Vueling will also operate flights from London Luton to Amsterdam, with up to two daily flights and to Zurich, with up to … Read more

Atlantic Star Airlines gains regulatory approval

Atlantic Star Airlines announced approval for its 2016 UK to St.Helena charter flight programme. Atlantic Star Airlines Director of Regulation Andrew Radford has been working in conjunction with the operations teams at TUIfly (Netherlands) and Air Charter Services, and the Air Access Team at St.Helena Government to deliver all the necessary documentation and assurances to gain approval for this … Read more

Lufthansa Cargo sets course for future growth

Lufthansa Cargo is implementing a comprehensive range of measures to counter the decline in the 2015 annual results. Besides an ambitious cost-cutting programme, the airline has announced further product innovations. The company is also pressing ahead with initiatives from the Lufthansa Cargo 2020 future programme, including close partnerships with other airlines. “We will still be … Read more

SAS and Apollo agree contract worth SEK 1.1 billion

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments SAS has extended its contract with Apollo for charter flights within Europe. The contract is worth SEK 1.1 billion and covers the summer- and winter season 2016–2017. This partnership means that SAS will take care of Apollo’s customers from 17 locations in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to 30 destinations … Read more

First French Blue A330 is taking shape

The first A330 for the brand new airline French Blue is taking shape in the Airbus Final Assembly Line, in Toulouse.  The new airline unveiled by the Groupe Dubreuil on March 17th will be the first French long haul low cost carrier. French Blue will start its own operations next September on routes to Punta Cana (Dominican Republic). … Read more

Finnair introduces new code share flights with Czech Airlines

Finnair and Czech Airlines are extending their code share cooperation, offering better connections between Helsinki and Prague and beyond. As of today, March 17, Finnair’s AY code will be added to flights between Helsinki and Prague operated by Czech Airlines, as well as to Czech Airlines flights between Prague and Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Košice … Read more

Norwegian expands UK network with new routes from Manchester and Edinburgh

Low-cost airline Norwegian is launching brand new flights from Manchester and Edinburgh to three popular Spanish destinations in time for the summer getaway. From 30th April, two weekly flights will take off from Manchester to Barcelona. From 2nd June, four weekly flights will depart Manchester to Malaga and two weekly flights to Alicante will commence from 3rd June. Meanwhile, new flights from Edinburgh … Read more

New Aer Lingus Regional Shannon Edinburgh route takes off

Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Stobart Air, today launched the first flight on its new route from Shannon to Edinburgh. The new route will operate six times weekly. It will result in an additional 35,000 seats for Shannon Airport in 2016, rising to 45,000 per annum from 2017. The addition of the new route brings to … Read more

Icelandair begins flights to Chicago

Today, 16th March, Icelandair began a new year-round service to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD). Flights will be four times weekly from Iceland on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with connections from 6 airports in the UK. Nearly two months prior to today’s inaugural flight, Icelandair announced an increase in capacity to the Windy City. This … Read more