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Finland’s national carrier Finnair is all set to start direct flights between Helsinki and Mumbai from June 27, Christer Haglund, senior vice president of the airline, said here Tuesday.

”Starting from June 27, Finnair will connect Mumbai to Europe in the fastest and most convenient service five times a week with the most competitive return fares,” Haglund said at a news conference.

”Apart from providing the latest wide-bodied Airbus A340 crafts, Finnair will cater to Indian tastes and preferences with Indian cabin crew, to make Indian passengers feel at home.”

Haglund said Finnair has decided to focus on India as a major Asian hub of its operations.

source: indiaprwire.com

FlyForBeans, the new budget airline to be based at Cardiff International Airport, plans to launch cut-price flights from the city to 12 European destinations.

The airline, which is based in the Vale of Glamorgan, predicts it will get nearly three quarters of a million passengers for the service which it hopes to launch out of Cardiff International this autumn.

source: icWales

Delta Airlines, the world’s third largest passenger carrier, has recommenced non-stop service from New York’s JFK International Airport to Montego Bay.

The first flight in more than 20 years arrived at the Sangster International Airport on Saturday at approximately 10:30 am with 128 passengers aboard. The airline will operate on that route six days per week.

source: The Jamaica Observer

Yellowknifers longing for milder climes this winter are in luck: Air Canada will launch a daily non-stop flight between the Northwest Territories capital and Vancouver from December to April.

Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said Thursday that Air Canada is trying out the new route, which for now will only be offered during the winter season.

“‘A lot of services we do start seasonally, and we see what sort of response we get,'” Fitzpatrick said. “‘This is partly intended to take advantage of some of the tourist traffic, particularly the people who come up from Asia, they like the aurora. And just generally, you know, it is a vibrant market.'”

Air Canada already offers flights between Yellowknife and Calgary and Edmonton.

source: CBC News

Virgin Atlantic said it plans to launch twice-weekly direct services between London Heathrow and Mauritius on October 28.

Sir Richard Branson’s airline said the new service to the Indian Ocean island would bring its total number of destinations to 29, with Kingston in Jamaica being the 30th route to be launched two days later.

source: hemscott.com

Clickair will start operating to Malta twice weekly from this month to October with a capacity of 15,000 passengers both ways. It is estimated that this airline will be carrying this year over 5,000 passengers one way – about 80 per cent of them tourists.

The Minister for Tourism and Culture Francis Zammit Dimech addressed a press conference at the Malta International Airport (MIA) on the occasion of the commencement of Click Air operations from and to Barcelona. He said that adding another low cost airline to the network of airlines operating to our country was good news for our tourism industry.

Wizzair, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest low fare airline and Italian low-cost carrier Air Italy, have become the latest airlines to add to Stansted Airport’s growing route network.

Air Italy will link the romantic city of Verona, famous as the home of Romeo and Juliet, and Wizzair has launched its first service to the old Polish capital of Katowice.

Flights to Brussels also return as Ryanair relaunches services to Charleroi.

Australian airline Jetstar will double its direct services between Sydney and Bali to four times weekly from 28 October, in response to the bounce back in Australian traveller demand and the ongoing recovery of the island’s tourism industry.

The additional two weekly A330 services from Sydney will see the low cost carrier operating six flights a week between the Australian east coast and Bali.

source: MICEBTN

A new long haul, low-cost airline, seeking to capitalize on the presence of a strong migrant population residing in the UK that likes to travel to the Indian sub-continent in order to maintain family and country ties, is likely to begin operations this summer. The start-up, Air Sylhet, will initially fly direct to Asian and Middle Eastern destinations, and expand operations in subsequent stages.

source: domain-b.com

Norwegian is Scandinavia’s leading low cost carrier and started its operations 1^st September 2002 with four domestic routes and six aircraft – Boeing 737-300. Today Norwegian has 22 aircraft (all Boeing 737-300) and operates 10 domestic routes and 89 international routes to 60 destinations. The company has 850 employees and the headquarters are located at Fornebu, Oslo.

source: business-traveler.eu