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Good evening,
thanks a lot for your interest in our newsletter. If you're interested in more information about one of the messages in this newsletter, don't hesitate to contact me. Our aircraft lists have been updated today, check them out at http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) will start four times weekly service from Dublin to Hamburg, three weekly flights to Marseilles and Naples and twice weekly service to Seville in March 2005 when it will also move its Dublin-Milan Malpensa and Cork-Milan Malpensa routes from Malpensa to Orio al Serio airport. It will retain its daily Dublin-Milan Linate service though. Aer Lucht (Dublin) is not a new cargo carrier as previously reported by CH-Aviation but a new leasing company which will market A300-600 freighters. Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) will lease five more Tu-154Ms through the end of the year to be used for expansion on the domestic market. Aero Services Corporate (CJE/Paris Le Bourget) will lease an ex-Mexicana (MX/Mexico City) A319-100. It will operate the aircraft on a wet-lease basis for Air Burkina (2J/Ouagadougou). Aerosvit Airlines (VV/Kiev Borispol) will lease an ex-Air Europa (UX/Palma de Mallorca) B737-400. Aigle Azur (ZI/Paris Orly) will add an ex-Iberworld Airlines (TY/Palma de Mallorca) A320-200. Air Dolomiti (EN/Trieste) is reportedly considering adding several B737-500s to its fleet to increase capacity on its feeder services from Italian regional airports to the Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt) hub in Munich. Air Europa (UX/Palma de Mallorca) will lease two A330-200s to be delivered in February and May 2005. It has reportedly also signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus on an order for 10 A350s. Air France (AF/Paris CDG) will phase out its remaining five B747-200s and four B747-300s earlier than originally planned. It is planning to replace the aircraft until 2005 and is reportedly considering leasing additional B747-400s as a replacement. Air France will start three times weekly A319-100LR service from Paris CDG to Riyadh on December 1. Air Horizons (RN/Paris Le Bourget) has launched weekly scheduled services from Montpellier to Casablanca and from Paris CDG to Ouarzazate. Air Nostrum (YW/Valencia) is planning to add Palermo to its network in summer 2005. The Iberia (IB/Madrid) franchisee will operate four weekly services from Madrid to Palermo and two weekly services from Barcelona to Palermo using CRJ-200s. Albatros Airways (LBW/Tirana) will start low-cost operations on November 13. It will operate a twice weekly Fokker 100 service from Tirana to Rimini and is planning to add Athens, Brescia, Istanbul, Pisa and Venice to its network at a later stage. Alitalia (AZ/Rome Fiumicino) is reportedly interested in a minority stake in Volare Airlines (VA/Verona). Austrian Airlines (OS/Vienna) will start three times weekly B737-700 and A320-200 service from Vienna to Naples by the end of March 2005. It is reportedly planning to add new routes from Vienna to Tyumen and Ufa in 2005 as well. bmibaby (WW/East Midlands) will add three ex-Ryanair (FR/Dublin) and two ex-easyJet (U2/London Luton) B737-300s. bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) will expand its codeshare agreement with Gulf Air (GF/Bahrain) and put its BD code on Gulf Air flights from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Muscat. Bosnia Airlines (Mostar) will start operations on November 8 when it will start three times weekly service from Mostar to Zagreb with a Let 410 wet-leased from Trade Air (TDR/Zagreb). It is planning to lease ATR 42s at a later stage. City Airline (CF/Gothenburg Landvetter) will start twice daily ERJ-135 service from Gothenburg Landvetter to Zurich on January 31, 2005. Corendon (Amsterdam) will start three times weekly service from Brussels to Istanbul Ataturk on March 2, 2005. It will use aircraft wet-leased from Fly Air (FLM/Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen) on this route. Corsair (SS/Paris Orly) will operate a weekly seasonal B747-300 service from Bordeaux to Pointe ā Pitre between mid-December and the end of February. CSA Czech Airlines (OK/Prague) is planning to launch new routes from Prague to Sarajevo and Skopje in spring 2005. dba (DI/Munich) is planning to lease an ex-Islandsflug (HH/Reykjavik Domestic) B737-300 from December. Eirjet (Shannon) has taken delivery of its first A320-200. European Executive Express (RY/Karlstad) has given up its Stockholm Arlanda-Mora route on October 29. Flybe. (BE/Exeter) will lease two B737-300s from the end of March 2005. Both aircraft will be based in Birmingham where Flybe. will add seven new routes. Malaga will be served six times weekly, Faro five times weekly, Alicante and Palma de Mallorca four times a week, Almeria three times weekly and Murcia every Saturday. Flybe. has also announced its intention to start serving the Birmingham-Geneva route during the winter season. It is planning to add three more B737-300s over the next two years. Fly Globespan (B4/Edinburgh) will add three B737-800s to its fleet in 2005. It will also launch twice weekly services from Glasgow Intl to Lanzarote, Las Palmas and Paphos in early May. Flyjet (FJE/London Gatwick) is planning to add a B767-300ER to start charter flights to India. Georgian Airways (A9/Tbilisi) has added a Yak-42D to its fleet of three B737-500s. It will launch new routes from Tbilisi to Dubai and Hurghada in mid-November. Germania (ST/Berlin Tegel) is reportedly planning to start a twice daily Fokker 100 service linking Munich and Leipzig/Halle in January 2005. germanwings (4U/Cologne/Bonn) will lease three ex-V Bird A320-200s. It has announced its intention to add Birmingham, Catania, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Toulouse to its network in 2005. Iberia (IB/Madrid) has announced its interest in bidding for the planned sale of both Mexican government owned carriers Aeromexico (AM/Mexico City) and Mexicana (MX/Mexico City). Icelandair (FI/Reykjavik Keflavik) has increased its stake in easyJet (U2/London Luton) from 8.4% to 10.1%. KLM cityhopper (WA/Amsterdam) has added an ex-Malev (MA/Budapest) Fokker 70. Lufthansa CityLine (CL/Cologne/Bonn) will lease two ex-Azzurra Air ARJ-85s. MAT Macedonian Airlines (IN/Skopje) has leased a third ex-US Airways (US/Pittsburgh) B737-300. It is planning to add a Fokker 100 in March 2005. MyAir (8I/Milan Orio al Serio) will start low-cost operations on December 17 with a fleet of three A320-200s. It will operate two daily flights from Milan Orio al Serio to Catania and Naples and daily flights from Milan Orio al Serio to Brindisi and Madrid and from Venice Marco Polo to Barcelona and Madrid. Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (FV/St. Petersburg) will lease two ex-Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) B737-500s. It is planning to lease three more B737s in 2006. Ryanair (FR/Dublin) is reportedly planning to start routes to Malta in spring 2005. SN Brussels Airlines (SN/Brussels) has signed a codeshare agreement with Air Malta (KM/Malta) for the Brussels-Malta route. Swiss (LX/Zurich) will retire its last MD-11 today. Transaero Airlines (UN/Moscow Domodedovo) has suspended its weekly service between Moscow Domodedovo and Taipei Intl. It has launched a weekly B767-300ER flight from Moscow Domodedovo to Singapore Changi instead. Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Ataturk) has taken delivery of its first ex-Islandsflug (HH/Reykjavik Domestic) A310-300F freighter. It will start five times weekly cargo service between Istanbul Ataturk and Maastricht on November 1. THY is also planning to add new longhaul services from Istanbul Ataturk to Los Angeles, Toronto Pearson and Washington Dulles in 2005 and to Melbourne and Sydney in 2006. It is also considering adding new shorthaul routes from Istanbul Ataturk to Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, Doha, Helsinki, Lisbon and Oslo Gardermoen. Virgin Atlantic (VS/London Heathrow) will start daily A340-300 service from London Heathrow to Mumbai on February 1, 2005. It is reportedly also planning to start flights between London and Dubai soon. Volareweb.com (VA/Venice Marco Polo) has given up its routes from Milan Orio al Serio to Tallinn and from Rome Fiumicino to Krakow and Warsaw. It will also not start new routes from Bari and Naples to Bologna, Catania and Palermo as previously announced. Volareweb is however planning to resume its Bari-Paris Orly route later this winter season. Best regards Thomas Jäger News Editor CH-Aviation It's all about aviation in Switzerland and Europe - www.ch-aviation.ch AirlineSim - the only airline simulator of its kind - www.airlinesim.de -- View my aircraft pictures: "http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=1753" |
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