CH-Aviation Airline-News

[Flo]

Hallo zusammen

 

Nachdem wir noch nicht entschieden haben, ob und falls ja in welcher Form ein Newscorner weitergeführt wird poste ich ab jetzt die Meldungen von CH-Aviation hier.

 

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Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana) and Croatia Airlines (OU/Zagreb) will join Star Alliance as second and third regional members after Blue 1 (KF/Helsinki) whose membership was approved earlier this year already.

 

 

Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) has returned two ex-Swissair A320-200s to the lessor as it is taking delivery of further new A320-200s. It is reportedly planning to start three times weekly A330-200 service from Dublin to Orlando in February 2005.

 

 

Aerocom (MCC/Chisinau) has wet-leased an An-24RV turboprop to Tobruk Air (TOB/Tripoli).

 

 

Air Atlanta Iceland (CC/Reykjavik Keflavik) has added an ex-UPS Airlines (5X/Louisville) B747-200F freighter.

 

 

Air Baltic (BT/Riga) will start five times weekly Fokker 50 service from Vilnius to Munich on October 31. It will also add a new four times weekly service from Riga to Stuttgart using ARJ-70s and daily B737-500 service from Vilnius to London Gatwick. Weekdaily Fokker 50 service from Vilnius to Tallinn will already start on September 15. It is reportedly planning to start three times weekly B737-500 service from Riga to Geneva in December.

 

 

Air Berlin (AB/Berlin Tegel) will give up its Munich-Vienna route by the end of October.

 

 

Air Contractors (AG/Dublin) has leased two ex-Cimber Air (QI/Sonderborg) ATR 42-300s.

 

 

Air Dolomiti (EN/Trieste) will give up its Verona-Naples route by the end of October. It currently operates a daily ATR 72 service on the route.

 

 

Air Europa (UX/Palma de Mallorca) will lease two more B737-800s to be delivered in 2005.

 

 

Air France (AF/Paris CDG) will start daily service from Basle/Mulhouse to Bordeaux on October 31 using an ERJ-135 of subsidiary Régional (YS/Nantes). Air France has cancelled its codeshare agreement with Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana), as of the end of October it will operate an own twice daily ERJ-145 service linking Paris CDG and Ljubljana.

 

 

Air Polonia (4P/Warsaw) will start daily B737-400 service from Warsaw to Stockholm Skavsta on October 31. The same date it will also change airports in Paris and Rome, it will operate to Beauvais instead of CDG and to Ciampino instead of Fiumicino. It will also give up its Katowice-Cologne/Bonn, Katowice-Poznan-Brussels Charleroi, Katowice-Wroclaw-Paris CDG and Warsaw-Athens routes.

 

 

Airzena (A9/Tbilisi) is reportedly planning to change its name to Georgian Airways. Russia has banned Airzena from Russian airspace as of October 1 because of supposedly unpaid airport fees. It is however widely seen as a political step.

 

 

Alitalia (AZ/Rome Fiumicino) announced plans to lay off 5000 employees and to split the company into two divisions, an airline and a ground services division. It also said it was reconsidering its alliance with Air France (AF/Paris CDG). It will move one of its two daily Milan Malpensa-Thessaloniki services to Rome Fiumicino from the end of October; it will use MD-82s on the route. Alitalia Express (XM/Rome Fiumicino) will start twice daily ATR 72 service from Milan Malpensa to Zagreb on November 1. It will codeshare with Croatia Airlines (OU/Zagreb) which has given up its plans to start an own daily ATR 42-300 service on the route. Alitalia is also planning to start daily service from Milan Malpensa to Sarajevo in March 2005 using ERJ-145s of Alitalia Express.

 

 

AlsaceExel (XT/Strasbourg) has given up its Strasbourg-Montpellier route citing low demand.

 

 

Arnoro Airlines (Sarajevo) is planning to resume operations in November using its MD-81 aircraft from Banja Luka and Sarajevo to Copenhagen, Gothenburg Landvetter, Oslo Gardermoen and Stockholm Arlanda.

 

 

Austrian Airlines (OS/Vienna) will resume twice weekly A340-300 service from Vienna to Kathmandu on September 16.

 

 

Axis Airways (AXY/Marseilles) is reportedly planning to add a B757-200 to its fleet of BAe 146-200s, B737-300s and B737-400s later this year.

 

 

AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines (J2/Baku) has added a fourth B757-200. It will also lease an ex-Air Malta (KM/Malta) A320-200.

 

 

Blue Panorama Airlines (BV/Rome Fiumicino) will add a stop in Bologna to its twice weekly Milan Malpensa-Kiev Borispol route as of October 5. It is using B737-400 equipment on the route.

 

 

British Airways (BA/London Heathrow) has sold its 18.25% stake in Qantas (QF/Sydney) to an undisclosed buyer. It will start five weekly flights from London Gatwick to Vilnius, four weekly services to Thessaloniki and three weekly services to Split in March 2005 using B737-400s. It will however suspend its London Gatwick-Paris CDG route by the end of October. British Airways CitiExpress (TH/Manchester) will operate a weekly ARJ-100 seasonal service from Birmingham to Geneva between December 2004 and April 2005.

 

 

British Mediterranean Airways (KJ/London Heathrow) will resume twice weekly service from London Heathrow to Tbilisi on November 1. The British Airways (BA/London Heathrow) franchisee will operate A320-200s and A321-200s on the route.

 

 

Cimber Air (QI/Sonderborg) has leased an ex-Binter Canarias (NT/Las Palmas) ATR 72-200.

 

 

CSA Czech Airlines (OK/Prague) is planning to service from Prague to Nizhniy Novgorod.

 

 

Dau Air (Lübeck) is planning to start regional operations with two Saab 340s out of Lübeck and Dortmund.

 

 

dba (DI/Munich) has leased an ex-Sobelair B737-300. In addition, it will also wet-lease a BAe 146-200 from WDL Aviation (WDL/Cologne/Bonn).

 

 

Denim Air (3D/Eindhoven) has moved its Augsburg-Berlin route from Tempelhof to Tegel on September 13.

 

 

EAE European Air Express (EA/Monchengladbach) is planning to start twice weekdaily service from Stuttgart to Geneva by the end of February 2005 using a Saab 340 wet-leased from Golden Air (DC/Trollhattan).

 

 

easyJet (U2/London Luton) will give up its London Stansted-Milan Linate route by the end of October. It will start daily service from Berlin Schönefeld to Riga on November 18, from Berlin Schönefeld to Tallinn on October 27, from Bristol to Valencia on November 3 and from London Stansted to Tallinn on November 1. It has signed a 10-year agreement with Basle/Mulhouse airport and is expected to announce new routes from the airport to Barcelona, Bratislava, Dortmund and Rome Ciampino later this year.

 

 

EUjet (EUJ/Shannon) announced it will not start its proposed up to three times daily Fokker 100 service between Shannon and Dublin.

 

 

Eurofly (GJ/Milan Malpensa) will lease two ex-Star Airlines (SE/Paris CDG) A320-200s.

 

 

Finnair (AY/Helsinki) will start twice weekly MD-82 service from Helsinki to Venice Marco Polo on March 28, 2005. It is planning to resume a weekly seasonal A320-200 service between Helsinki and Geneva in January.

 

 

Flightline (B5/Southend) will shortly take delivery of a third ex-Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) BAe 146-300.

 

 

Fly Air (FLM/Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen) is planning to add three MD-80s with the first aircraft expected to be delivered in October. It will start three times weekly scheduled low-cost service from Amsterdam to Istanbul Ataturk in cooperation with Dutch tour operator Corendon on November 1. The two companies already have a daily Eindhoven-Istanbul Ataturk low-cost operation.

 

 

FlyBaboo (F7/Geneva) will start six times weekly Dash 8-300 service from Geneva to Prague on October 11.

 

 

FlyMe (FLY/Gothenburg Landvetter) will start five times weekly B737-300 service from Stockholm Arlanda to Angelholm/Helsingborg on September 27.

 

 

GrandaExel (XT/Cuneo) will start new routes from Cuneo to Amsterdam, Naples, Venice Marco Polo and Vienna. It is considering adding Paris as well.

 

 

Hahn Air (HR/Frankfurt Hahn) will give up its Zurich-Salzburg route on September 20. It is unknown yet whether operations will continue on another route or whether it will give up own operations.

 

 

Hapag-Lloyd Express (X3/Cologne/Bonn) will resume three times weekly B737-700 service from Hanover to Rome Ciampino on March 10, 2003. It will however reportedly give up its Stuttgart-Klagenfurt route by the end of October.

 

 

Helvetic Airways (OAW/Zurich) will start daily service from Zurich to Skopje and weekly service from Zurich to Ohrid using Fokker 100s on September 24.

 

 

Helvetic Wings (Geneva) has given up its Geneva-Basle/Mulhouse route. It will continue its twice weekdaily Beech 1900D service between Geneva and Marseilles operated by Twin Jet (T7/Marseilles) and is reportedly planning to add new routes from Berne to Paris Orly and from Geneva to Jersey.

 

 

Iberia (IB/Madrid) will start daily services from Malaga and Valencia to Milan Malpensa by the end of October. Iberia and Avianca (AV/Bogota) have signed a codeshare agreement. The two carriers will codeshare on the Madrid-Bogota route. In addition, Iberia will put its code on Avianca services from Bogota to Cali, Cartagena, Medellin and Pereira while Avianca will put its code on Iberia flights from Madrid to Alicante, Barcelona, Paris Orly and Valencia. Iberia and Royal Air Maroc (AT/Casablanca) have announced they will extend their codeshare partnership. Iberia will put its code to domestic services in Morocco from Casablanca to Agadir, Fez, Laayoune, Ouarzazate and Oujda. RAM will offer onward connections from Madrid to Alicante, Bilbao, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville and Valencia.

 

 

Italy First (IFS/Rimini) is adding an ATR 72 to its fleet of two ATR 42-300s. The new aircraft will be operated on behalf of Air One (AP/Rome Fiumicino) on the Albenga-Rome Fiumicino route.

 

 

JAT Airways (JU/Belgrade) is planning to lease two B767-200ERs from March 2005 to resume own transatlantic operations to Canadian and US destinations.

 

 

Jet2 (LS/Leeds/Bradford) announced it will launch five times weekly B737-300 seasonal service from Leeds/Bradford to Ibiza in May 2005.

 

 

KLM (KL/Amsterdam) is reportedly considering ordering an unspecified number of B7E7s in a joint order with Northwest Airlines (NW/Minneapolis/St. Paul).

 

 

Kuzu Cargo Airlines (BAT/Istanbul Ataturk) is the new name of Baron Air Cargo.

 

 

LGW (HE/Dortmund) will give up its Erfurt-Berlin Tempelhof and Erfurt-Dortmund routes by the end of September.

 

 

Lithuanian Airlines (TE/Vilnius) will start three times weekly Saab 2000 service from Vilnius to Milan Malpensa on October 31.

 

 

Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt) announced it was planning to replace its B737-300s and B737-500s over the next two years. It is looking at a single regional jet family. It will start daily service from Munich to Bangkok by the end of October by transferring one of its two daily Frankfurt-Bangkok services to Munich. Four weekly services will continue to Ho Chi Minh City and three weekly services to Kuala Lumpur. It will use A340-600s on these new services. Air China (CA/Beijing) offered Lufthansa to sell a 10% stake to allow a strategic investment in the Chinese partner carrier.

 

 

Lufthansa Cargo (LH/Frankfurt) will start three times weekly MD-11F freighter service from Frankfurt via Delhi to Guangzhou on October 31. It will however give up service to Karachi next month.

 

 

Martinair (MP/Amsterdam) will wet-lease a B737-800 from Miami Air (BSK/Miami) from the end of October for its Miami-San José and Orlando-San José routes. It has added an ex-Swiss (LX/Zurich) MD-11 which is to be converted to a freighter.

 

 

Meridiana (IG/Olbia) will give up its codeshare agreement with Alpi Eagles (E8/Venice Marco Polo) by October 1.

 

 

MNG Airlines (MB/Istanbul Ataturk) is planning to add two ex-Channel Express (LS/Bournemouth) Fokker 27 freighters.

 

 

MyTravelLite (VZ/Birmingham) will launch three times weekly A320-200 service from Birmingham to Menorca in May 2005.

 

 

Norwegian (DY/Oslo Gardermoen) will start four times weekly B737-300 service from Trondheim to London Stansted on November 4.

 

 

OLT (OL/Emden) will move its Bremen-Berlin service from Tempelhof to Tegel on December 20.

 

 

Rockhopper (XAX/Alderney) is planning to start twice daily Trislander service from Alderney to Guernsey on October 4.

 

 

Russia (R4/Moscow Vnukovo) will take over Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (FV/St. Petersburg) creating the second biggest Russian carrier. Both companies are state owned.

 

 

Ryanair (FR/Dublin) will start daily B737-800 service from Glasgow Prestwick to Niederrhein and from Niederrhein to Girona on November 8. It will also add daily services from Rome Ciampino to East Midlands, Liverpool, Niederrhein, Teesside and Valencia from January 28and from Glasgow Prestwick to Hamburg Lübeck, Murcia and Pisa on March 1.

 

 

Saga Airlines (Istanbul Ataturk) has started charter operations with its first A310-300.

 

 

SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK/Copenhagen Kastrup) will start new routes from Stockholm Arlanda to Budapest, Hamburg and Stuttgart on October 31 operating six weekly flights with Dash 8-400 equipment. It also plans to add Athens, Istanbul Ataturk, Nice, and Rome Fiumicino as new destinations from Stockholm on October 31. It will however give up its Stockholm Arlanda-Karlstad route. Skyways Express (JZ/Stockholm Arlanda) will take over the route and operate up to eight daily Fokker 50 flights between the two cities. SAS is reportedly interested in taking a stake in Bulgaria Air (FB/Sofia).

 

 

Sky Airlines (SHY/Antalya) will wet-lease a B737-800 to Air Memphis (MHS/Cairo) during the upcoming winter season.

 

 

Smartwings (QS/Prague) will start new service from Prague to Vienna later this year. It announced its intention to add new routes from Prague to Dubai and London later on.

 

 

Sterling European Airways (NB/Copenhagen Kastrup) will launch twice weekly B737-800 service from Copenhagen to Budapest and weekly service to Faro by the end of October. It will add twice weekly service from Stockholm Arlanda to Bologna on February 23, 2005.

 

 

Swedjet Airways (BBB/Norrköping) will start operations by the end of October launching up to six times daily CRJ-

 

200 service from Norrköping to Copenhagen.

 

 

Swiss (LX/Zurich) has leased an MD-11 to Air Namibia (SW/Windhoek Intl). It is reportedly considering resuming services from Geneva to Basle/Mulhouse, Nice and Vienna.

 

 

Transavia Airlines (HV/Amsterdam) will give up its Basiq Air brand used for its low-cost scheduled operations by the end of year. It will use its Transavia brand for all operations as of January 2005.

 

 

TUI Airlines Belgium (TUB/Brussels) is planning to take delivery of its first ex-Varig (RG/Rio de Janeiro Intl) B767-300ER in mid-November launching longhaul charter services to Cancun, Montego Bay, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana and Varadero.

 

 

Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Ataturk) is reportedly planning to lease three A330-200s from Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt) later this year.

 

 

VLM (VG/Antwerp) is adding two more ex-Air Iceland (NY/Reykjavik Domestic) Fokker 50s.

 

 

Volareweb.com (VA/Venice Marco Polo) has once again announced a strategy change shortly after a new management took over responsibility over the carrier. It will start twice daily service from Naples to Catania as well as daily services from Bari to Catania and Palermo, from Bologna to Bari, Cagliari, Catania and Palermo, from Milan Malpensa to Bucharest Baneasa, from Naples to Catania and Palermo. Its Milan-Lamezia Terme service will be moved from Malpensa to Orio al Serio. Volare will however give up its routes from Bari to Barcelona, Brussels, Paris Orly and Tirana, from Cagliari to London Luton and Paris Orly, from Catania to Brussels and Paris Orly, from Milan Linate to Berlin Schönefeld, from Palermo to Paris Orly, from Rome Fiumicino to Bari, Berlin Schönefeld, Bilbao and Lamezia Terme, from Venice Marco Polo to Berlin Schönefeld, Frankfurt Hahn and Lamezia Terme. Volareweb.com has also cancelled its codeshare agreements with Air Polonia (4P/Warsaw), Hapag-Lloyd Express (X3/Cologne/Bonn) and Windjet (IV/Catania).

 

 

Vueling Airlines (VLG/Barcelona) will start daily A320-200 service from Barcelona to Seville on October 4.

 

 

Windjet (IV/Catania) will start weekly A320-200 services from Catania to Dusseldorf and Munich on November 6. It will also start twice daily service from Catania to Venice Marco Polo and daily services from Catania to Milan Orio al Serio and Venice Marco Polo. It is reportedly planning to add new routes from Bologna Forli to Barcelona, from Catania to Barcelona and Naples and from Palermo to Pisa as well.

 

 

Wizz Air (WZZ/Budapest) has given up its Katowice-Girona and Budapest-Athens routes earlier this week and will not launch new routes from Gdansk and Katowice to Malmö Sturup as previously announced.

 

 

World Focus Airlines (Istanbul Ataturk) has taken delivery of its first A310-300. It already operates two A310-200s on a wet-lease basis on behalf of other carriers such as MNG Airlines (MB/Istanbul Ataturk) or Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Ataturk).

 

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[Lomo]

Ich würd es gut finden, wenn uns diese Meldungen in irgendeiner Form erhalten blieben.

 

Gruss

Lorenz

[Flo]

Ich werde sie weiterhin in den Stammtisch posten.

 

@Markus Bächli: ev. sticky?

 

Gruess, Flo

[AB-ZRH]

Hallo zusammen

Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana) and Croatia Airlines (OU/Zagreb) will join Star Alliance as second and third regional members after Blue 1 (KF/Helsinki) whose membership was approved earlier this year already.

 

Adria in der Star Alliance :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Marcel Staubli]

Hallo,

 

Wieso sind die Airline-News in Englisch und nicht in Deutsch? Für mich wäre Deutsch besser dann würde ich auch was verstehen aber Englisch. :001:

 

MfG,

Marcel

[Flo]

Marcel, ich beziehe die Meldungen von http://www.ch-aviation.ch/, wo sie seit einigen Monaten nur noch in Englisch erscheinen - die Zeit um alles zu übersetzen habe ich leider nicht.

 

Gruess, Flo

[Benny-MD11]

Marcel mein Tip entweder folgenden online Übersetzer für die News zur hilfe nehmen:

http://systran.heisoft.de/

 

oder ganz einfach einzelne Worte unter folgendem Lexikon nachschlagen (glaub mir viele verschiedenen Wörter werden in den News eh nicht verwendet ist fast immer das selbe ;) ):

http://dict.leo.org/

 

Ciao

Benny

[Johannes H.]

Hallo,

 

genau auf Deutsch übersetzt gibts die News bei http://www.berlinspotter.de . Leider erscheinen sie dort aber immer erst mit großer, mehrwöchiger Verspätung.

 

Ich bin auch Fan von diesen News, denn sie sind wirklich topaktuell - manchmal mit Gerüchten - erweisen sich meist als wahr und sind auch für mich mit nur wenig Englisch-Verständnis verständlich.

 

Bemerkenswert finde ich diesmal die Nachricht, dass OLT ihre Ops am 20. Dezember in BER von THF nach TXL umlegen möchte. THF wird jedoch am 30. Oktober geschlossen. :001:

 

Gruß Johannes