Norwegian, Scandinavia’s largest low fares airline, will start a new route from London-Gatwick to Stavanger from the 2nd of November. The route will initially be served with four weekly frequencies and is Norwegian’s sixth route from London.
source: Easier
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, is today announcing the introduction of two additional services during peak commuter travel times on its popular Jersey to London Gatwick route that will boost its daily return service on this key route to six a day.
Flybe is also adding an extra Saturday service. Ticket prices have also been slashed to £19.99 one way on selected flights and are now available for booking on Flybe.com for flights commencing 28th October 2007.
source: Easier
Airline SAS said on Monday it was cancelling at least 228 flights through to Wednesday this week because of the grounding of all its Dash 8-400 aircraft following two crash-landings last week.
In separate statements, SAS Sweden and SAS Denmark said they would cancel 48 flights and 180 flights, respectively.
Two SAS planes crash-landed within days, one in Denmark on Sept. 9 and another in Lithuania on Sept. 12, due to problems with landing gear. No one was seriously hurt in either incident.
source: Reuters
Budget airline Ryanair said on Thursday it was ready to launch 80 routes to two Milan airports, stepping in as struggling Alitalia cuts back in Italy’s industrial heartland. Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier is prepared to use an additional 12 airliners at Milan’s Malpensa airport and another six at Serio airport in Bergamo, company spokesman Peter Sherrard told a news conference.
source: Turkish Daily News
Air Berlin will open a new route from London Stansted to Munich on 5 November 2007. The airline will fly twice daily from Monday to Friday and once on Saturday and Sunday.
source: earthtimes.org
The low-cost airline, Ryanair, has announced that it is pulling out of Los Rodeos – the Tenerife Norte Airport – because, as La Opinión de Tenerife reports, its customers prefer Tenerife Sur.
The company confirmed new routes with Tenerife this autumn: two connections a week with East Midlands from 10th October; three with Liverpool and Frankfurt from 30th October; and a weekly flight from 10th November to Shannon Airport.
source: typicallyspanish.com
Britain and Israel reached an agreement Tuesday for each country to allow a second airline to fly the London-Tel Aviv route.
Currently only British Airways and El Al make such commercial flights.
The Israeli Transportation Ministry called the agreement “‘a significant step toward opening the skies to competition.'”
Britain’s Department for Transport said bmi is the only British airline that has expressed interest in competing with BA on the route, and bmi announced that it plans to start daily, nonstop service next spring.
source: International Herald Tribune
Air France is showing its passengers satellite views of the countries, cities and terrain they are flying over, thanks to a new partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).The French airline receives satellite images of varying resolutions from ESA on CD-ROMs and uses them to create a program lasting the full length of each flight on its services from Paris to Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Singapore.
source: MSNBC
Low-cost airline Norwegian said it plans to launch a new twice weekly service between London and the northern Norwegian city of Tromso, inside the Arctic circle.
The service will begin from Dec 8.
source: Forbes
Australia’s low fares airline Jetstar has launched to Malaysia, offering direct services between Sydney and Kuala Lumpur 3 times weekly.
The new international route for the Qantas Group represents Jetstar’s 8th long haul market following its successful introduction of these value based international services in November 2006.
As the second largest source of visitors to Australia from South East Asia and a key regional and economic partner, Malaysia represents a growing international travel market.
