Finnair recruits 400 pilots and cabin crew members

Finnair prepares for growth in its long-haul traffic starting in 2016 and begins the biggest recruitment drive in the company’s history. In addition to the approximately 70 pilots and 130 cabin attendants recruited this year, the company is seeking to recruit 100 new pilots and 300 new cabin crew members. Some 50 people are also … Read more

Norwegian offers UK travellers more Caribbean connections

New services from New York to Martinique and Guadeloupe offer Brits chance to combine a low-cost ‘ sun and city’ break in the U.S. and Caribbean. UK passengers travelling on Norwegian Air Shuttle’s low-cost flights to the U.S. this winter now have the chance to add some sun to their city break with the launch of … Read more

Austrian Airlines launches flight service to Havana

Next year Austrian Airlines will add another new tourist destination to its flight schedule. Austria’s national carrier will offer flight service once a week to Havana, the capital of Cuba, as of October 25, 2016. Flights will be operated on Tuesdays deploying a Boeing 767 to Havana, the largest city in the Caribbean, as part … Read more

Nordic Aviation Group to launch new services to Nice and Split

Nordic Aviation in cooperation with Adria Airways will begin operating direct flights to Nice and Split in the coming summer season. Flights to Nice will take place on Saturdays from 16 April to 29 October, and on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 21 June to 30 August. Flights to Split will take place once a week … Read more

airberlin to operate Dusseldorf – Azores three times per week

From May 2016, airberlin will operate three flights per week nonstop from Dusseldorf to the Azores. The existing weekly summer service to the archipelago’s capital, Ponta Delgada, will be expanded by an additional flight. A new nonstop flight per week from Dusseldorf to Terceira, the second most populous island in the Azores, will also be … Read more

Turkish Airlines announces new service to Zaporizhzhia

Zaporizhzhia will be Turkish Airlines’ 6th destination in Ukraine as from December 28th. With existing services to Kiev, Odessa, Dneprepetrovsk, Lvov and Kherson, Turkish Airlines now adds Zaporizhzhia, one of the largest cities in Ukraine to its expanding network. Beginning from 28th December, Zaporizhzhia flights will be operated 4 times weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays … Read more

Wizz Air announces 23rd base

Wizz Air today announced that it will open its 23rd base on 1 July in Iasi (Romania) with one new Airbus A320. Already served by Wizz Air flights, Iasi will be airline’s sixth Romanian airport with base operations. The new aircraft will increase the number of routes served from Iasi to eight and will triple the seat … Read more

British Government subsidy to help revive regional and international flights

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December 3, 2015 Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill backs routes to bring new business and visitors for whole country. Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill has welcomed the new domestic and international routes that will start in 2016 from regional airports across the UK. The Chancellor announced in … Read more

Wizz Air continues expansion in Macedonia

Wizz Air announced further growth to its low fare route network from Macedonia with three new Skopje services. Wizz Air will connect the Macedonian capital with Berlin Schoenefeld from 21 March 2016, while the new Skopje services to Copenhagen and Bratislava will commence in 22 and 28 March, respectively. Each new route will operate two … Read more

Cargolux and its social partners reach new deal on work agreement

December 2, 2015 Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Cargolux management and its social partners OGBL and LCGB have achieved a major breakthrough in yesterday’s round of negotiations on a new collective work agreement (CWA) for the airline’s staff. It clears the road to growth and financial sustainability, sealing … Read more