Wizz Air, the largest low fare-low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe carried six million passengers since its May 2004 launch, the airline has announced on Tuesday.
Within one year the carrier has doubled its passenger numbers and has outperformed its competitors.
The airline has targeted to carry the next one million passengers within only three months.
source: Porfolio.hu
Brazil’s civil aviation authority said on Wednesday that it gave low-cost airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes the green light to buy rival air carrier Varig.
The National Civil Aviation Agency or ANAC said it gave Gol “advance authorization” for the deal. Gol now still requires approval from Brazil’s anti-trust agency Cade, ANAC said in an on-line statement.
source: Reuters
Low-cost carrier Firefly, a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines, has started commercial operations with ticket prices as low as $US2.60 ($3.19).
Its first passengers flew out of the island resort of Penang, officials said.
Firefly, Malaysia’s second low-cost airline after AirAsia, will use two 50-seater Fokker Friendship aircraft.
Initially, the airline will fly from its base in Penang to the Malaysian cities of Kota Baru, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan and Langkawi. From April 13, the airline will also fly daily to the Thai resort islands of Phuket and Koh Samui.
source: theage.com.au
The Dallas-based low-cost carrier said it flew 6.1 billion revenue passenger miles last month compared to March 2006 when the airline flew 5.8 billion revenue passenger miles. A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown 1 mile.
Load factor, however, dropped in March as its percentage of seats filled slipped to 73.3 percent from 75.5 percent a year ago.
Air Pacific we revert to its scheduled Nadi/Honolulu/Vancouver flights from 06 April following the cancellation of a code-share deal with Canada’s Harmony Airlines.
Harmony Airways, a five-year-old Canadian full-service airline, announced it would end scheduled flights, blaming rising costs and competition from larger rivals, and only operate chartered flights.
source: MICE BTN
GoAir, India’s leading smart fare airline announced their new summer schedule introducing new flights from Bangalore to Cochin. Additionally, GoAir has introduced new flights connecting to Cochin from Delhi while increasing the number of flights between Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai.
GoAir, the only airline that has direct flights from Mumbai to Srinagar thrice a week, will now also have 12 connections from Mumbai to Srinagar and Jammu via Delhi, a total of 64 weekly flights on BOM-DEL-BOM sector, 40 weekly flights between Mumbai-Chennai-Mumbai and 33 weekly flights between Mumbai-Hyderabad-Mumbai. Our passengers can now choose a flight at a time convenient to them from the multiple flights that GoAir’s new summer schedule offers across various destinations in India.
source: Indiaprwire.com
JetBlue Airways Corporation, New York’s hometown airline, today begins daily nonstop service between White Plains’ Westchester County Airport and Orlando, Florida.
Beginning April 2, the low-cost carrier will offer one daily nonstop flight to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and a second daily flight to Orlando.
source: ABC
Brazil’s budget airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes has agreed to buy rival Nova Varig for $275 million.
Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes said Wednesday the deal with Varig’s owners — VarigLog, a former logistics unit of Nova Varig, and Volo, a group of investors — involves $98 million in cash and issue of some 6.1 million preferred shares. It will also assume $45 million in debentures, which will raise the value of the deal to $320 million.
source: earthtimes.org
Faced with empty seats and soaring costs, tiny Harmony Airways is headed for a forced landing early next month.
The privately owned boutique carrier announced today it is ending its scheduled flights to Toronto on Friday and all other scheduled flights by April 9.
source: The Honolulu Advertiser
A new budget airline has been launched at Cardiff International Airport, with the promise of creating 100 jobs.
Flyforbeans hopes to start flying to European destinations towards the end of 2007, with route details being made public by the autumn.
The airline, launched by air consultancy SkyMerlin, said these would include airports in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and eastern Europe.
source: BBC News
