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New airline at Hahn: FlyOne flies to Chisinau

Jan Gruber 7 May 2021 10:33

After an extremely long dry spell that began before the Corona pandemic, the Frankfurt-Hahn regional airport can once again present a new airline customer: Fly One. The carrier has been offering two weekly flights between Hahn and Chisinau since April 30, 2021. Fly One flies on Mondays and Fridays with medium-haul Airbus A320 jets. The Moldovan airline was founded in 2018 and currently has one A319 and two A320s. The average age of the fleet is 15,1 years. Hahn is the first and so far only destination that the low-cost carrier from Moldova is flying to. The company also has a subsidiary in Romania, but this is not yet active as an airline. The status of the AOC and OL application is unclear. However, this has no impact on activities from Chisinau.

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Emirates has operated 3.100 Preighter flights to date

Jan Gruber 7 May 2021 10:09

For around a year, Emirates Airline has also been using passenger aircraft as so-called makeshift freighters ("preighters"). The company announced that it has so far operated around 777 cargo-only flights with the Boeing 300-3.100ER aircraft alone. On board were around 11.000 tonnes of cargo, mostly so-called personal protective equipment. In response to the acute need for the transport of PPE during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in late April 2020, Emirates SkyCargo adapted its operating model to load selected goods inside the aircraft cabin on passenger seats and in overhead bins, creating additional space for urgent cargo on its flights. Over the course of a year, the cargo airline has now operated more than 3.100 flights with cargo on the seats and in overhead bins, transporting more than 11.000 tonnes of vital cargo, which is equivalent to transporting cargo on 800.000 aircraft seats. Emirates SkyCargo continues to experience high demand for the transportation of PPE and other cargo within the cabin. In order to safely load cargo onto the seats and overhead bins of a passenger aircraft, Emirates SkyCargo had to quickly conduct a security risk assessment and develop a series of processes and procedures to train both staff in Dubai and ground handling partners at outstations across the Emirates SkyCargo network on the most efficient and safe way to load and secure cargo within passenger cabins. The team also developed a smart calculator application that enables the global teams to calculate the optimal loading capacity within the aircraft cabin. The procedures developed also specify

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Germany: Travel industry demands continuation of aid funds

Jan Gruber 7 May 2021 09:30

The German Travel Association warns that failure to extend the bridging aid for travel agencies and tour operators could lead to a large wave of insolvencies. The professional association refers to a survey and states that 98 percent of tour operators and 96 percent of agents are dependent on the state. Due to the corona pandemic and the extremely weak demand, the tourism industry has been recording negative sales since around April 2020. This means that more refunds have had to be made than new orders have been secured. The complicated entry and quarantine regulations and the deliberate stigmatization of travel have led to extremely low demand in Germany. The DRV conducted a survey in which 450 members took part. These were tour operators and agencies. The vast majority stated that they were making use of both short-time work and bridging aid from the federal government. Without this support, neither the jobs nor the business would have been able to be kept. It is also interesting that well over 90 percent of respondents stated that they consider the economic situation for the whole of 2021 to be "very difficult". It is expected that at most 50 percent of the turnover from 2019 can be achieved. Around two thirds stated that they expect a maximum of 25 percent. Around 90 percent of agents and 85 percent of tour operators are of the opinion that the bridging aid must be extended. At least two thirds also demand that short-time work be continued. Otherwise, many companies face going to the bankruptcy court due to the strained financial situation.

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Munich starts selling Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Amely Mizzi 7 May 2021 09:04

From June 1, 2021, airlines will also be able to refuel with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at Munich Airport. After a thorough technical inspection, the airport's tank farm is now being opened for climate-friendly fuels of the future. This means that sustainable fuels, so-called "Sustainable Aviation Fuels" (SAF), can now be delivered, stored and refueled at Munich Airport, provided they meet the relevant quality specifications for Jet-A1 aviation fuel. In the tank farm, which is supplied with fuel by various oil companies on behalf of the airlines, deliveries of SAF blends, i.e. conventional kerosene with an admixture of green fuels, are also permitted. Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) is the owner of the entire tank infrastructure, which extends from the tank farm via an underground pipe system covering around 17 kilometers to the aircraft parking positions. The operator of the tank farm is Skytanking Munich GmbH & Co. KG, which ensures the quality control of the fuels delivered and, together with other fuel service providers, is operationally responsible for refueling the aircraft. The SAF fuels used today are mostly obtained from biomass, i.e. from renewable raw materials, so-called "Biomass to Liquid (BtL)" fuels. In the future, however, synthetically produced kerosene will also be available on the market, so-called "Power to Liquid (PtL)" fuels, which are produced by electrolysis using water, CO2 and renewable electricity. Even if the same amount of CO2 emissions are released when SAF is burned as with fossil kerosene, the decisive improvement comes from the production process itself: CO2 is required for production, which is almost completely converted into fuel in this process. This in turn results in

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A321LR: Jetblue cabin was developed in Austria

Amely Mizzi 7 May 2021 08:35

The new long-haul cabin that Jetblue uses in its Airbus A321LR aircraft was co-developed in Austria. The supplier FACC is on board as Airbus' development and manufacturing partner and is setting new standards for the interior of passenger aircraft with its innovative components for the entrance area, luggage racks and ceiling panels. The Upper Austrian company has developed the Airspace Cabin for the A320 family of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and is now producing it in series. The launch customer is Jetblue. With the Airspace Cabin, Airbus has raised the flight experience for the passengers of its narrow-body aircraft to the standard of a wide-body aircraft. Anyone who has previously missed the special comfort of a long-haul flight experience on short-haul flights can therefore be particularly pleased thanks to the widest single-aisle cabin on the market. The innovative, futuristic-looking aircraft cabin was delivered to the launch customer JetBlue for the first time on April 29, 2021. "The first components that passengers see when boarding come from FACC," emphasizes Robert Machtlinger, CEO of FACC AG, not without pride. "The entrance area we produce, with its unique aesthetics, high-quality technical design and a high level of comfort, ensures that the new Airspace Cabin impresses passengers from the very first second." The interior system manufactured by FACC includes the entire paneling of the entrance area as well as the door area in the front, middle and rear sections of the aircraft. The sophisticated integration of the innovative "Hero Light" lighting system introduced by Airbus in the Airspace cabin creates a completely new and friendly interior atmosphere for passengers - from the entrance area through the main cabin to the rear service area.

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France decides on “short-distance ban light”

Jan Gruber 7 May 2021 08:06

The French National Assembly has passed a bill on climate protection. This also includes a ban on certain short-haul flights. It was previously debated for around 200 hours. The vote in the Senate is scheduled for June 2021. If the law also passes the second chamber, flights within France will be banned if the destination can be reached by train within 2,5 hours. Originally, this threshold was to be four hours, but the motion was changed after a long debate. The aviation industry is considered to be badly hit. Various environmental organizations were not happy with the compromise. They believe that the ban on short-haul flights does not go far enough. The railway is always highlighted as a particularly environmentally friendly means of transport, but the level of electrification outside the EU countries is sometimes extremely low. In the United Kingdom, for example, there is the absurd situation on many routes that private railway companies use diesel traction under overhead wires for cost reasons.

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Brussels presents another special livery

Amely Mizzi 7 May 2021 07:31

For six years, the Lufthansa subsidiary Brussels Airlines has been giving numerous aircraft special liveries dedicated to Belgian cartoon characters such as Tintin. This icon series is now being continued. From May 21, 2021, the OO-SNA will bear the portraits of the Red Devils and Red Flames. The aircraft is currently scheduled to fly in this special livery until November 2022. The jet is then scheduled to be retired. As part of maintenance work, the Rachkam livery of another Airbus A320 will be renewed. This should be completed by around June 2021. The photo gallery below (slideshow) shows a selection of Brussels Airlines' special liveries:

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