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Zurich: Chair takes on Tenerife and Gran Canaria

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 12:04

The Swiss holiday airline Chair has announced the launch of two new routes from Zurich-Kloten. With the start of the 2022/23 winter flight schedule period, the company plans to fly to Tenerife (South) and Las Palmas twice a week. Chair Airlines plans to serve the latter destination from October 30, 2022. The flights are to be operated on Thursdays and Sundays. From November 2, 2022, flights to Tenerife (South) will be available on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Chair Airlines is the only airline in the Germania Group that survived the collapse. The company was taken over by the owners of the travel agency Air Prishtina at the time. A short time later, the Polish charter airline joined with a 49 percent minority stake. It was only recently announced that the fleet would be expanded by two Airbus A320s.

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Only two binding bidders for Ita Airways

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 11:31

There are said to be two binding offers for the purchase of Alitalia's successor Ita Airways. According to them, MSC/Lufthansa and a consortium of Certares, Air France-KLM and Delta are said to have submitted bids. The deadline for submitting binding purchase offers ended on May 23, 2022 at midnight. According to local media reports, Lufthansa is only bidding for a 20 percent stake. The partner MSC is said to want to acquire 60 percent. The Italian state wants to remain on board with a minority. This would make up 20 percent - if the bid is accepted. Originally it was said that Lufthansa would like to take over at least 40 percent of the shares in Ita Airways. According to current information, Indigo Partners, an investment fund that has investments in low-cost airlines such as Wizz Air, is not said to have submitted a bid. Delta Air Lines is bidding together with Air France-KLM and Certares to take over Ita Airways. There are said to be no other interested parties who have submitted a binding offer. The Italian Ministry of Finance announced a few weeks ago that it would like to enter into exclusive negotiations from June 2022. The deal is then to be closed by the end of 2022 at the latest. There is currently speculation that the MSC/Lufthansa consortium has the best cards. The management of Ita Airways has never made a secret of the fact that it would like to be bought by Lufthansa. However, Skyteam partners Delta and Air France-KLM are likely to have a significant interest in the Italian carrier remaining in their alliance and not switching to the competing Star Alliance, which would most likely be implemented if Lufthansa were to join.

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Lugano: Twinjet starts Olbia charter flights

Jan Gruber 25 Maj 2022 11:03

The French airline Twinjet will operate charter flights between Lugano and Olbia in summer 2022. These will start on June 25, 2022 and are to be operated once a week. Lugano has no longer had any regular scheduled connections since the collapse of Darwin Airline and the discontinuation of Swiss flights within Switzerland. Charter flights have been operated on a small scale again in the current summer season, for example to Elba, with Let 410 from Silver Air. The Olbia connection is offered and marketed by Summercharter.ch. The flights are operated operationally by the French Twinjet. The ticket price is 490 Swiss francs per one-way. The tour operator grants a small discount for return bookings. It is currently planned that the last pair of Lugano-Olbia-Lugano routes will be operated on September 10, 2022. Twinjet was founded in May 2001 and currently operates 12 Beechcraft 1900D turboprop aircraft with 19 seats. The airline mainly flies within France, but also has some international routes. For example, it flies to Friedrichshafen and Stuttgart in Germany. It also has Zurich and Milan in its portfolio. Twinjet is also a cooperation partner of the Air France-KLM frequent flyer program.

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Austria: Ryanair is getting rid of the masks – Austrian Airlines is waiting

Jan Gruber 25 Maj 2022 10:32

From June 1, 2022, FFP2 masks will no longer be necessary on public transport in Austria, including on airplanes. The official wording of Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) is that the mask requirement will probably be paused for three months. Ryanair has already confirmed that from June 1, 2022, it will no longer insist on covering the mouth and nose on flights to Austria. The second largest provider at Vienna-Schwechat Airport has thus already decided that from next Wednesday, it will be possible to fly maskless. However, this only applies if there are no instructions to the contrary from the destination country. In concrete terms, this means that nothing will change on flights to Germany for the time being, for example. Austrian Airlines, on the other hand, is still taking a wait-and-see approach. When asked, a spokeswoman told Aviation.Direct: “In order to evaluate the implementation of flight operations at Austrian Airlines, the regulation suspending the mask requirement must be published. As soon as the exact wording is known, we can check how it is handled on board our flights.” Austria is currently the only country in the world that insists on FFP2 masks. In comparison to other European countries, the requirement to wear masks at airports and on board aircraft is being abolished relatively late. Health Minister Rauch does not want to talk about a final abolition either, but merely speaks of a break that should last around three months. Vienna’s mayor takes an obscure special path However, an obscure peculiarity is also looming in Austria, because Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) wants to take a special path again and not lift the FFP2 mask requirement on public transport. If Vienna does not give in by June 1, 2022,

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Rome: Alitalia Ground Handling sold to Swissport

Jan Gruber 25 Maj 2022 10:01

The ground service provider Swissport has been awarded the contract for the ground handling division of Alitalia, which is in liquidation. In the future, the company will therefore be working at Rome-Fiumicino Airport for Ita Airways, among others. Alitalia's insolvency administrators put the ground handling division up for sale some time ago. In addition to Swissport, several other providers were also interested and submitted bids. The contract ultimately went to Swissport. After the consultation process has been completed, the company will take over the ground handling business at Rome-Fiumicino Airport and the employees will move from Alitalia - Società Aerea Italiana SpA in extraordinary administration - to Swissport. "With the recovery in demand for air travel after the COVID crisis, airlines around the world are refocusing on their core competencies such as flight schedule quality, marketing, digital sales and safe and reliable flight operations," explains Warwick Brady, President & CEO of Swissport International AG. "More and more airlines are choosing Swissport as their preferred service partner and trusting us to handle even complex home base operations." With Rome-Fiumicino, Swissport is adding an important European business and leisure center to its growing global airport network and is thus continuing its rapid expansion. The market leader in ground handling services, based in Zurich, Switzerland, offers around 850 airlines on six continents a comprehensive range of ground handling services and air cargo handling. In Europe, Swissport takes over complete hub management for airlines at their home bases, including at the airports in Zurich (Switzerland), Munich (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland). "We are delighted about Swissport's expansion into Italy and the takeover of Alitalia's ground handling business at Rome-Fiumicino Airport," says Marina Bottelli, General Manager Italy

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Elizabeth Line: Heathrow-Stansted Tube goes into partial service

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 09:37

The new Elizabeth Line underground line is set to be an impressive 113 kilometers long when fully completed. Heathrow and Stansted airports will then be connected. The first sections of the line went into operation on Tuesday. The Elizabeth Line will initially operate as three separate lines, with trains from Reading, Heathrow and Shenfield connecting to the central tunnels from autumn this year. The new line will be crucial to London's recovery from the pandemic, helping to avoid a car-focused recovery by providing new travel options, supporting regeneration across the capital and injecting an estimated £42 billion into the UK economy. The Elizabeth Line will run 06 trains per hour between Paddington and Abbey Wood from Monday to Saturday between 30:23 a.m. and 00:12 p.m. Work will also continue during operating hours and on Sundays to allow for a series of tests and software updates to enable more intensive operations from autumn. All trains between Reading and Heathrow to Paddington and Shenfield to Liverpool Street, currently operating under the TfL Rail name, will be rebranded as the Elizabeth Line. Customers travelling from Reading or Heathrow to London will need to change at Paddington to reach the central section of the line, and customers travelling from Shenfield to London will need to change at Liverpool Street. Trains from Reading, Heathrow and Shenfield will be connected to the central tunnels in the autumn. At this time, the frequency will also increase to 22 trains per hour at peak between Paddington and Whitechapel

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OLG Vienna overturns 32 Ryanair clauses

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 09:04

The low-cost airline Ryanair suffered a legal setback before the Vienna Higher Regional Court. The Vienna Chamber of Labor had filed a lawsuit against 35 clauses in the General Conditions of Carriage. 32 of these were overturned by the court. In addition to many unclear formulations and inadmissible restrictions on the assertion of claims, various fees are also prohibited. Important for consumers: the inadmissible check-in fee if this is not clearly pointed out during booking. The wrongly charged check-in fee can be reclaimed using the AK sample letter. The Vienna Commercial Court had declared several clauses in Ryanair's General Conditions of Carriage to be inadmissible in the first instance. The Irish low-cost airline appealed against this to the Vienna Higher Regional Court. The Higher Regional Court largely confirmed the Vienna Higher Regional Court's ruling. Once again, the check-in fees, which had already been overturned at the former airline Laudamotion, were the linchpin of the Chamber of Labor's legal action. It is not permitted to charge a check-in fee if Ryanair has not already clearly and unambiguously indicated the amount during the booking process. The carrier has now changed the look of the reservation process and actually points this out. The fee for reissuing the boarding pass (20 euros if you do not have it with you) is also not permitted. Other fees are also illegal, such as a separate fee for the refund of taxes - for example if you do not take the flight - if the airline is to blame. The deadline for refunding the money to consumers is also far too short. General terms and conditions lack transparency Numerous clauses in the conditions of carriage are unclearly formulated, there are blanket and cascading references. Many provisions are for

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Vereinigung Cockpit warns of many cancellations in the summer of 2022

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 08:37

The German pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit believes that airline management has cut too many staff in the wake of the corona pandemic. The "lack of social partnership" would now take its toll when normal operations return, according to the VC. There is an acute shortage of staff at many airports and numerous airlines. This is due, among other things, to the fact that many employees were laid off in the wake of the pandemic. In some cases, numerous airline and airport employees have given up their jobs and sought employment in other industries due to low incomes during short-time work. Vereinigung Cockpit believes that management has made poor planning that could lead to numerous flight cancellations in the summer of 2022 due to a lack of staff. Furthermore: "This poor planning is provoking massive flight cancellations that will cause millions in damage to companies and their shareholders. Overall, the stability of air traffic in Germany and Europe is at risk. Passengers must be prepared for long waiting times and flight cancellations in the summer." "It has long been clear that the radical job cuts in many areas of aviation would have a negative impact on the recovery," says VC President Stefan Herth. "Now it is becoming clear that a forward-looking personnel policy and a strong social partnership not only help employees, but that the companies themselves also benefit directly." Herth also criticises the use of short-time work benefits with simultaneous job cuts and threats of dismissal: "The aim of politics is always to keep employees in the companies with short-time work benefits. The bar for the companies that were supported by the state during the crisis was

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Issue of new shares: Air France-KLM wants to reduce debt mountain

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 08:03

The French-Dutch aviation group Air France-KLM wants to raise funds of around 2,3 billion euros with the help of a capital increase. This is to be achieved through the issue of new shares. The company wants to use the proceeds, among other things, to repay the state loans granted by the Netherlands and France. The company is currently in final negotiations with the investment fund Apollo for an investment of 500 million euros. The money is to be paid out to a maintenance subsidiary and used to reduce the state loan. In addition, Air France-KLM wants to raise around 2,3 billion euros with the help of the issue of new shares. The subscription period runs from May 27, 2022 to June 9, 2022. However, despite the enormous amount, the planned proceeds are more of a drop in the ocean, because the group of companies was already heavily indebted before the corona pandemic. The planned proceeds are not enough to be able to fully repay the state loans. In addition, the company initially wants to repay subordinated bonds amounting to 1,7 billion euros. These were also subscribed to by the French state. This is not Air France-KLM's first fundraising campaign, as a similar measure was taken last year. While the Netherlands were rather cautious after the first state aid, France also subscribed last year. Some bonds are now due and are to be repaid or at least reduced with funds from the latest issue of new shares. The total volume of the capital increase - taking all measures into account - is around four billion euros. The airline

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DAT flies Airbus A320 for Finnair

Amely Mizzi 25 Maj 2022 07:39

Oneworld member Finnair will operate an Airbus A2022 operated by Danish Air Transport from Copenhagen in summer 320 under a wet lease agreement to meet peak demand. 07According to the announcement, the aircraft will be used between Helsinki and Copenhagen in June. Between July and October 2022, DAT will fly for Finnair between the Finnish capital and Oulu. This aircraft will also be used between Helsinki and Lisbon. It was recently announced that Finnair will fly several Airbus A2022s on behalf of British Airways from London Heathrow in summer 321. "We are preparing for a busy summer season and this agreement with DAT supports our goal of ensuring stable and reliable operations as travel activity now increases again," says Ole Orvér, Chief Commercial Officer at Finnair. DAT is a Danish airline that serves regional routes in Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany and Finland and offers charter and ACMI services. The cockpit and cabin crew for these flights come from DAT and the flights are operated according to Finnair's service concept. 

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