From January 24, 2016, Ukraine International Airlines will double the frequency of non-stop scheduled services connecting Lvov and Tel Aviv. Non-stop scheduled flights between Lvov and Tel Aviv will be operated twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. Flights PS783/784 will be operated with Boeing 737 aircraft, configured with two cabin classes: Business Class and … Read more
Austrian Airlines will increase its flight offering to Iran starting with the summer flight schedule 2016. As of Monday April 4, 2016, Austria’s national carrier will operate four weekly flights to the Iranian trading city Isfahan. In addition to the existing flight service to Teheran, Austrian Airlines is thus further expanding its route portfolio to … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Rossiya Airlines JSC, part of Aeroflot Group, renewed its IOSA Registration. The company successfully passed the Audit for the fifth time and proven its conformance with IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) standards. Rossiya Airlines was evaluated against almost a thousand standards and recommended practices. The audit affected all the … Read more
Virgin Atlantic has established a new subsidiary to handle its longhaul Caribbean operations. The new subsidiary, named Virgin Atlantic International, has been granted an air operator’s certificate by the UK Civil Aviation Authority and is expected to begin operations by the end of next month, using two of Virgin Atlantic’s Airbus A330-300s. Virgin Atlantic International … Read more
November 23, 2015 Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Board of Directors of Rossiya Airlines named Dmitry Saprykin as the company’s new CEO. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Board Chairman Vadim Zingman. Dmitry Saprykin previously served as Deputy CEO of PJSC Aeroflot responsible for legal and property issues. In September Dmitry Saprykin was named CEO … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Six crew members of cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines were among 19 people killed during last Friday’s terrorist attack by suspected Islamist militants at a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, in west Africa. On 18-19 November, an AN-124-100 aircraft operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines was carrying construction machinery from Oslo (Norway) … Read more
easyJet has announced that it will be adding an additional aircraft to its Bristol operations from next year to cater for extra demand from its passengers across the South West and enable the airline to fly to even more destinations from the airport. From summer 2016 there will be up to 13 easyJet aircraft based … Read more
AirBridgeCargo has added Atlanta to its North American route network with the launch of twice-weekly flights. The new Boeing 747 freighter services, which commenced November 20, operate on Fridays and Sundays and connect Hong Kong and the U.S. to Atlanta via Los Angeles, maximizing cargo connections to the growing U.S. market for ABC’s customers in … Read more
Wizz Air signed a renewed contract on Wednesday with Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) and Lufthansa Technik Budapest (LTB) for line maintenance services for the Wizz Air fleets based in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. The value of the two eight-year agreements was not released. The contract extensions were signed in Budapest by Wizz Air Chief … Read more
Boeing delivered two 747-8 Freighters to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, and one of the leading international scheduled air cargo carriers. The airplanes are the first to be delivered as part a memorandum of understanding, signed between Boeing and Volga-Dnepr Group at the Paris Air Show in June 2015. The deal calls for more … Read more