FlyYeti.com, Nepal’s first low-cost carrier (LCC), today launched non-stop service between Kathmandu, the carrier’s global hub, and Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital. The airline, which will provide service between the two cities five times per week, recently commenced service to Sharjah, UAE, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Britons wanting to enjoy the cultural attractions of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao will have a new low-cost flight option as clickair announces a new daily service from London Gatwick.
The new route will operate from March 30th, replacing a previous Iberia service, departing the UK at 09:55 GMT and returning from Bilbao at 11:35 GMT.
“‘We are very pleased to be adding another popular cultural destination to our network from London Gatwick,'” said clickair’s chief executive Alex Cruz, himself a native of Bilbao.
source: travelbite.co.uk
easyJet welcomed passengers onboard its inaugural flight from East Midlands to Palma, Mallorca thursday february 7th, providing travellers from the region with an even greater choice of destinations from their local airport.
source: Boarding.no
A Spanish clothing company is suing a charter airline for failing to deliver British actress Sienna Miller — “the face” of its company — to New York City from London for a photo shoot.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Pepe Jeans said it paid Jet Set Private Air Service $160,000 for a chartered plane that would deliver Sienna Miller, along with the actress’ associates, to a New Jersey airport.
source: Reuters
Jet Airways and American Airlines today launched their code share partnership which would benefit passengers and frequent flier members of both airlines.
The frequent flier members of both carriers would have the benefit of earning points as they travel on these code share flights, Jet Airways said in a statement. They would be able to redeem these points on the route network of either airline.
source: India Times
Domestic airline delays in 2007 were the second worst on record, the Transportation Department said Tuesday.Flights in the U.S. were late more than 26 percent of the time last year, a slightly better performance than in 2000, when airlines were tardy 27.4 percent of the time. The federal government began collecting airlines on-time data in 1995.
source: SignOnSanDiego.com
Shares in Scandinavian airline SAS dived on Wednesday after it posted a fourth-quarter loss on problems with its Dash 8 Q400 planes and said it faced delays in turnaround plans and a worsening economic situation.
The airline, half of which is owned by Sweden, Norway and Denmark, added that replacing its fleet of Dash 8 Q400’s, permanently grounded after landing gear issues caused three emergency landings last autumn, would add to costs in 2008.
SAS shares were down 10.6 percent at 55 crowns by 1302 GMT, having hit 53.50 crowns — its lowest for more than three years.
source: Guardian Unlimited
Alitalia SpA, the state-controlled airline Italy is trying to sell, is cutting flights at Milan’s Malpensa airport because it’s “‘economically impossible”’ to maintain two hubs.Alitalia will eliminate unprofitable routes, keeping just three of its current 17 intercontinental flights at Malpensa while increasing traffic at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, the carrier said in a slide presentation on its Web site today. Mounting losses make it impossible to keep two hubs, the company said in the presentation of its summer 2008 schedule.
source: Bloomberg
India’s national carrier Air India is launching a daily non-stop New York-Delhi service from Feb 8 with a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-200LR aircraft to reduce the travel time between the two cities to 14 hours.
The flight will depart from New York’s JFK International Airport at 4:00 p.m. local time and arrive in Delhi at 4:30 p.m. the next afternoon. Returning flights will depart Delhi at 12:30 a.m. and arrive at JFK at 5:45 a.m. local time the same day.
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Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest discount airline, said profit declined for the first time in seven quarters as increased competition hurt ticket prices. Higher fuel costs and a possible European consumer slowdown may slash earnings next fiscal year.
Net income in the fiscal third-quarter through December fell to 35 million euros ($52 million), or 2.35 cents a share, from 48 million euros, or 3.09 cents, a year earlier, Dublin-based Ryanair said today by e-mail. Analysts had predicted a profit of 35.6 million euros. Sales rose 16 percent to 569 million euros.
source: Bloomberg
