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News of November 2009


Ryanair cabin crew strip off for charity calendar

11 November 2009

The Irish low-cost airline has today launched its 2010 charity calendar in which it uses airline staff as the models. It hopes that the calendar will raise £100,000 for the charity “KIDS” which provides support to disabled children and their families across Britain.

This the third year that Ryanair has published these calendars, and the airline donates all the proceeds to charity.

source: Telegraph.co.uk


Continental and bmi join for flights to US

5 November 2009

UK-based airline bmi has signed a new codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines. The new agreement is expected to provide bmi customers with access to a wider range of destinations in the US in a single booking.

The deal will reportedly allow bmi to offer fares to Newark Liberty International and George Bush Intercontinental from London Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham International, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Brussels and also improve connections between US and the bmi network.

source: tradingmarkets.com


Wizz Air introduces web check-in

5 November 2009

Wizz Air, the largest low fare airline in Central and Eastern Europe, has launched web check-in. The new service is being initially introduced for flights departing from Budapest and extended gradually to flights from all airports by Spring 2010.

The web check-in does not impact on the rest of the boarding procedure: passengers are requested to present themselves at the boarding gate no later than 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time of the flight.

source: Peanuts!