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New routes and services – our weekly update

December 6th, 2011

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Welcome to our weekly news article. Read and keep up to date with the latest development in the world of aviation – as usually, we bring you the latest news concerning new routes and services from both low-cost airlines and traditional carriers.

The big German low-cost carrier Air Berlin launched recently a new service from Dusseldorf to Liberia via the Mexican town of Cancun. The new flights to this popular Costarican destination operate one every two weeks.

New routes and services – update

November 14th, 2011

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Glad you read our blog. We start off this week’s highlights with with a fresh batch of news about new routes and services from both low-cost airlines and traditional carriers.

Good news for travellers departing from Saarbrucken and Stuttgart. The German low-cost airline airberlin has launched a couple of new routes from these local airports. The new routes are Saarbrücken – Las Palmas, Saarbrücken – Nurenberg, Stuttgart Fuerteventura and Stuttgart – Lanzarote.

Ryanair cancels Trapani flights

April 29th, 2011

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It appears as though the seemingly remote military conflict in Libya has its ramifications for European low-cost airline’s passengers. Italy’s Trapani Airport is used for military purposes which implies restrictions for the passenger traffic.

The Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair announced it would temporarily cancel 72 of its 264 flights to and from Trapani as of May 6, 2011. It concerns the flights operated by its non Trapani-based aircraft only. Initially many of Ryanair’s flights were redirected to Palermo Airport. But now it turns out this manoeuvre causes problems to passengers, hence the change.

The weekly update on new routes and services

April 11th, 2011

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Hi there. It is Monday which means it is time for our weekly preview of the latest developments in the world of aviation – new routes and services and other news from the low-cost airlines as well as traditional carriers.

We begin with Iberia which following the expanded codeshare agreement with British Airways is now offering flights to new African and Middle-eastern destinations such as Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Doha, Bahrain, Muscat , Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Air Arabia to connect Casablanca and Torino

February 23rd, 2011

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It appears as though there is no end to the new routes this week. Today me would like to mention a new development from the Sharjah-based Air Arabia.

This big middle-eastern low-cost airline announced it would launch flights connecting the Italian Airport Torino Cuneo with the place known from the classical drama with Humphrey Bogart. Yep, we mean Casablanca. The new Casablanca – Torino route will be in operation as of July 1, 2011 and is yet unavailable for booking.

Flight disruptions word over

February 1st, 2011

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“May you live in interesting times” is – as the urban legend has it – a Chinese proverb and curse. Regardless of its authenticity, it very true of what is happening in the aviation world these days. Passengers word over suffer from flight disruptions for a whole numbers of reasons.

Political upheavals

By that we mean of course the unstable situation in Egypt where many travellers have wound up stranded at Cairo Airport.

Air Arabia to expand its offer from Montpellier

January 24th, 2011

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The Sharjah-based low-cost airline Air Arabia announced it would launch new services from the French city of Montpellier to Moroccan destinations. Montpellier, which is the the eight biggest city in France, is Air Arabia’s third most important destination in France.

The new routes from Airport Montpellier will be in operation at the end of March and will fly to such destinations as Fez, Oujda, Nador and Tangier. The flights will be on a weekly basis.

5 most luxurious aircraft interiors: aerial megalomania

November 2nd, 2010

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The images from the life of high society have always enjoyed an enormous popularity. For some reason many of us feel the urge to take a peep into the world of lavish luxury despite we know that this word is out of our reach. Or maybe precise because of it.

Let us gave in to this temptation and peek at the most luxurious aircraft interiors through the crack of our screens. We arbitrarily chose 5 plane interiors we found interesting and present them in random order.

What we all would rather avoid – aircraft evacuation

October 26th, 2010

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The subject of aircraft evacuation is not a pleasant one as we all prefer to assume that the flight will proceeded according to the plan. Nevertheless, we believe that a wise traveller is always prepared for the worst, and that is why today’s post will take up this subject.

First of all – the definition of aircraft evacuation for clarity’s sake. By evacuation we mean an urgent abandonment of an aircraft using all available exits. It is essential that evacuation be carried out quickly and in an orderly manner given the risk of injuries and death among the passengers. The formal requirement to be complied with by the aircraft producer is that the passengers should be able to leave to aircraft within 90 seconds using only half of the exits which simulates a situation where e.g. the exits are blocked/damaged.

70% of passengers want self-service for more steps of the journey

October 7th, 2010

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One of the most comprehensive global survey of passenger use of air transport self-service technology – SITA/Air Transport World Passenger Self-Service Survey – now presents the results.The respondents were interviewd mainly at these airports: Beijing International (PEK), Frankfurt International (FRA), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL), Mumbai International (BOM), Moscow Domodedovo (DME), Sao Paulo Guarulhos (GRU) and Johannesburg Airport (JNB). The survey shows that passengers now demand mainly non-traditional areas of self-service (through online, kiosk and mobile phone channels).

Not only online booking and check-in are very popular. Passengers want self-service for even more steps of the journey. According to the survey, automated security checks are acceptable to 70% of respondents (in comparison to 58% in 2009) and automatic boarding gates are acceptable to 70% (in comparison to 57% in 2009).