16-Sep-2010
Leading leisure airline, Monarch has announced new flights to the Italian region of Calabria, which will operate for Summer 2011. Fares start from £219 return and are now available to book via www.monarch.co.uk.
15-Sep-2010
Jet2.com has today unveiled Glasgow Airport as its eighth and newest base, bringing substantial investment to the region including 150 new jobs and nine low fare destinations.
10-Sep-2010
In what is the first of a two-phase release resulting from its recently announced codeshare arrangement with Air France, Flybe is today announcing four significant pieces of news that greatly enhance its services right into the central hub of French aviation at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG), namely:
10-Sep-2010 IRELAND :
Ryanair today (9th Sept) announced that it has introduced duty free sales of top brand cigarettes and alcohol on four Dublin routes to/from the Canaries (Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife).
09-Sep-2010 IRELAND :
Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline today (8th Sept) announced a further 21% cut in its Shannon flights and traffic this winter in response to last week’s surprise decision by Shannon Airport to impose a further 33% increase in passenger fees from 1st November despite the fact that Shannon’s traffic has collapsed by more than 1m passengers from over 2.7m passenger in 2009 to under 1.6m passengers in 2010. The “triple whammy” of Shannon’s high costs, their refusal to extend Ryanair’s 5 year base deal, and the imposition of the Govt’s €10 tourist tax has devastated traffic, tourism and jobs at Shannon Airport and the Mid West region.
08-Sep-2010
British Airways and Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines are to start codesharing on each other’s flights across India, Sri Lanka, the UK and continental Europe from September 15, 2010.
07-Sep-2010
Air Berlin, the second largest German airline, is validating new noise abate-ment approach procedures as part of a joint research project conducted by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS) and Fraport AG.
07-Sep-2010 CZECH REPUBLICH :
SmartWings, the only Czech low cost carrier, operated by the Travel Service Company, opens new route between Bucharest (Henri Coanda / Otopeni) and Prague effective November 1st , 2010.
