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October 18th

Budget funds for tourism 2023 the same as 2022

Granite Pireci 18 October 2022 20:04

Domestic tourism will receive the same amount of funding in 2023 as this year. For 2022, public funds for the industry were increased significantly by ten million euros to 24,5 million euros due to CoV. "With the funds available for commercial tourism promotion, we will succeed in setting important tourism policy accents for a strong and more sustainable business location," said State Secretary for Tourism Susanne Kraus-Winkler. Funding for resilience and sustainability "With the 2023 budget, the financing of the planned funding instruments - in particular the new sustainability bonus - is secured," Kraus-Winkler announced today in a press release. Commercial tourism promotion will be aligned accordingly from 2020 with a view to the government program 2024-2023 and the "Plan T - Master Plan for Tourism". Resilience and sustainability are supported by the state. The goal is an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable tourism industry.

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Air Montenegro registers over 300.000 passengers

Granite Pireci 18 October 2022 19:06

Yesterday, after a successful summer season, Air Montenegro handled its 300.000th passenger this year. The traveler was registered this morning on the route between Podgorica and Ljubljana. "Over the course of the year, the national Montenegrin airline has made great efforts to open up new markets for Montenegro and to better position the country both in Europe and in the region. We are pleased that 300.000 passengers have chosen to travel with us since January and that the numbers continue to rise," the company said in a press release. Air Montenegro is currently working on the route network for the 2023 summer season. This will include five new routes, among other things, as the online portal Ex-Yu-Aviation reports.

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Lufthansa Technik extends component contracts with Wizz Air, Frontier Airlines and Volaris

Granite Pireci 18 October 2022 18:05

Lufthansa Technik has signed long-term contracts for the strategic component supply of the low-cost airlines Wizz Air, Frontier Airlines and Volaris. These are extensions. "The new contracts take into account the rapidly growing fleets of the three airlines and thus offer new synergies and flexibility for further growth," said the Lufthansa subsidiary. Based on the current fleet plans, the new contracts will ultimately cover around a thousand aircraft in the Airbus A320 family. The so-called Total Component Support, which the airlines have opted for, usually includes services such as spare parts pooling and maintenance and repair services for thousands of aircraft components that are required in daily flight operations. In addition to these standard services, the recently signed contracts also include more specific service packages that respond directly to the individual requirements of each of the three airlines and adapt their supply of the contractually agreed components accordingly. For example, the ten-year contract with Wizz Air Hungary, Wizz Air UK, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air Malta includes the rental and delivery of components at six logistics hubs in Europe (Katowice, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Rome, London) and one in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi). The agreement with Frontier Airlines, on the other hand, also includes special on-site team support, where Lufthansa Technik experts will work hand in hand with the airline's local teams to deliver, return and troubleshoot components at eleven maintenance stations in the United States. The airline can also draw on Lufthansa Technik's extensive local MRO capabilities.

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Jet2 tops up order from Airbus again

Granite Pireci 18 October 2022 17:02

Jet2 has ordered 35 A320 Neo aircraft from Airbus. In addition to the 35 firm orders, there are 36 options. The aircraft are to be delivered over three years until 2031. The British holiday airline is thus increasing its orders from Airbus to 98, after the company had already ordered A2021 Neo aircraft in 321. The A320neo will be configured for 180 seats and will feature an Airspace cabin with innovative lighting, new seating products and 60 percent larger luggage compartments for additional personal storage space. The European aircraft manufacturer announced this in a press release. By the end of August 2022, the A320neo family had received over 8.500 firm orders from more than 130 customers worldwide. Until a year ago, Jet2's entire fleet consisted of Boeing aircraft. Then the British carrier turned its back on the US aircraft manufacturer. Since then, Airbus' order books have been filling up and Jet2 has placed plenty of orders. Now Jet 2 is increasing its order again with the A320 Neo.

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Power poker at Eurowings Germany – Management stops growth with immediate effect

Stephen Lorenz 18 October 2022 16:40

The deadline set by Eurowings to the union passed the previous evening without result. In the dispute between the management of Eurowings Germany (EWD) and the Cockpit Association (VC), the management is now pulling its own rug. As announced by Eurowings this early afternoon, growth at EWD will be stopped with "immediate effect". The reason given is the four days of strikes and the corresponding strike damage. This means that the Lufthansa subsidiary cannot continue the development path of its German flight operations in the "planned form". Specifically, Eurowings announced that the fleet at "EWD" targeted for 2023 will be reduced by 5 aircraft from the planned 81 to just 76 aircraft with immediate effect. The further consequences will also be addressed; the planned hiring of 200 additional cockpit and cabin positions will be stopped with immediate effect. Pilots in training at Eurowings Germany will now initially receive fixed-term contracts. Finally, there is also a clear warning to the cockpit staff already employed. Due to the reduced fleet size, Eurowings Germany will of course also need fewer captains, which means that all upcoming promotions of co-pilots to captain will also be stopped with immediate effect. Yesterday afternoon, Eurowings had given the Cockpit Association a deadline of 21:30 p.m. yesterday evening in the current wage dispute over future working conditions to end the strikes immediately. This “deadline”, which was accompanied by the threat of the reduction announced today, was apparently allowed to pass without any reaction by the union. On today, the second day of the pilots’ strike, Eurowings also had to

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Frankfurt Airport relies on e-mobility on the ground

Granite Pireci 18 October 2022 16:04

The planes will continue to fly with kerosene for the foreseeable future, but on the ground, Frankfurt Airport is increasingly relying on electric drives. With 690.000 euros in funding from the state of Hesse, the corresponding charging infrastructure is to be expanded and two new passenger buses with electric drives are to be purchased, the airport operator announced in a press release. Investments of around 2024 million euros are planned for the charging infrastructure by the end of 1,2. The airport operator is currently planning investments of 17 million euros for the electrification of special vehicles for ground handling services in the same period. In total, Fraport wants to expand the network by 34 fast-charging points. This also includes two mobile "charging parks" with nine charging points each, which can be flexibly positioned on the apron. Currently, 570 vehicles are electrically powered at Germany's largest airport, which corresponds to 16 percent of the total fleet. The operator Fraport wants to operate Frankfurt and the other majority-owned airports on a CO2045-free basis on the ground by 2 at the latest. This will also be achieved by a large-scale photovoltaic system that will be built parallel to Frankfurt's West runway and will generate up to 13 megawatts of solar power in the future. Further solar systems are planned on the airport site. "The conversion of our vehicle fleet to electric drive is a key part of our decarbonization strategy," says Stefan Schulte, CEO of Fraport AG. "We have set ourselves the ambitious goal of operating our home base, Frankfurt Airport, and all of our fully consolidated airport holdings around the world, CO2045-free by 2 at the latest. This goal requires extensive investments, which we began in the 1990s and which we have continued to make despite the crisis," he explains.

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Austria supports drone training in Montenegro

guest Author 18 October 2022 15:07

Since 2020, the Austrian police have been intensifying the use of drones. For this purpose, special competence centers have been set up at the Cobra/DSE task force and the air police. For the past two years, the focus of drone use has been on combating human trafficking, especially at the Austrian border. The Austrian police currently have around 130 drones at their disposal. In September 2022, Austrian police officers passed on their know-how in the field of drone control and aerial reconnaissance to law enforcement officers in Montenegro. A team of four police officers was on site for a week to impart their tactical and technical knowledge. The Montenegrin police will use their drones in the area of ​​border security and in difficult operational situations such as searches and arrests. "Supporting our partners in the Western Balkans is an important part of the Austrian security strategy. Drones are a key operational tool for combating the brutal business of human traffickers," said Interior Minister Gerhard Karner. At the meeting of interior ministers on October 6, 2022 in Belgrade, Interior Minister Karner assured his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vulin of support for the Serbian police. Austria will send police officers and drones to the Serbian-North Macedonian border. Drones will also be used on the Hungarian-Serbian border (EU external border) - up to 70 police officers from Austria are currently deployed there. Interior Minister Karner welcomes the Frontex deployment on the Serbian-North Macedonian border to combat human trafficking, announced by EU Commissioner Margaritas Schinas. "A Frontex deployment on the Serbian-North Macedonian border is an important contribution to the joint and consistent action against the internationally operating human trafficking mafia," said Karner.

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Air Malta Academy: A Tale of Clipped Wings

guest Author 18 October 2022 14:09

In the first half of 2018, Air Malta made a serious attempt to diversify its business and the establishment of the Air Malta Academy was seen as a possible source of revenue. Although still in its early stages, the idea was pushed by then Air Malta Chairman Charles Mangion, who saw it as an opportunity for the struggling national carrier. The project was entrusted to Captain Eric Abela, a familiar face both at the old headquarters in Luqa and at the Level 2 SkyParks. MAviO News caught up with Eric to talk about this stillborn project. He tells us that the concept he had come up with was a holistic one, involving third-party training of pilots, B1/2 aircraft mechanics and cabin crew certification courses. The captain, originally from Żejtun and living in Hong Kong, had left Air Malta to explore new avenues in the Far East. Upon his return, he wanted to get involved in the local aviation scene and embarked on a project to set up a standalone company called Air Malta Academy, with the national airline receiving royalties in return for branding and other services. The concept is not entirely new and MAviO News has information that Air Malta had toyed with the idea as early as 2008/2009 and again around 2012, but these plans fizzled out. Captain Abela insists that the Air Malta Academy could have been a very successful project, especially with Asian airlines wanting to train their cadets in an EASA environment. He admitted that he had

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Iberia and TAAG agree on codeshare cooperation

Amely Mizzi 18 October 2022 13:09

The airlines TAAG Angolan Airlines and Iberia will work together in the future as part of a codeshare agreement. This primarily concerns the non-stop flights between Madrid and Luanda, which are marketed jointly. In addition to the connections between Madrid and Luanda, the Spanish airline's customers can fly from the Angolan capital to Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa, Windhoek in Namibia and Maputo in Mozambique. TAAG will also offer its customers connections to Iberia flights from Madrid to Barcelona, ​​Porto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Zurich, Rome and Milan. The following jointly marketed flight schedule has been in effect since October 13, 2022: Flight number Departure Departure time Arrival Arrival time Frequency IB1425 Madrid (MAD) 22:55 Luanda (LAD) 05:20 the following day Monday and Friday IB1426 Luanda (LAD) 21:00 Madrid (MAD) 05:20 the following day Thursday and Sunday

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“Donau-Auen” – Austrian Airlines has officially presented its first A320neo

Jan Gruber 18 October 2022 12:19

The first Airbus A320neo in the Austrian Airlines fleet, the "Donau-Auen", was officially presented to the public on Tuesday. In an internal company competition, a co-pilot's suggestion to name the four Neos after Austrian national parks won out. It has been a long time since Austrian Airlines invited people to the hangar to christen a brand-new aircraft. On Tuesday the time had come, because the board members and Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Kocher christened the OE-LZN "Donau-Auen". The second Airbus A320neo will arrive at Vienna-Schwechat Airport next week. The hangar event, which was sponsored by a brewery among others, was also intended to symbolize the spirit of optimism that AUA is in. After all, for the first time in many years, the company has received a brand-new aircraft. According to board member Michael Trestl, this will initially be used primarily to fly to London Heathrow. The "Neo route network" is to be gradually expanded. It is currently assumed that up to six daily rotations will be possible with this model. Company boss Annette Mann stressed, among other things, that the four new additions also mean that Austrian Airlines is expanding again after the fleet reduction that was decided under her predecessor. After the phase-in is complete, the carrier will operate 65 aircraft. What will happen after that? That is still completely open, because Austrian Airlines is traditionally very secretive about it. The OE-LZN was taken over by Austrian Airlines "naked". According to board member Francesco Sciortino, the company's own technical department has brought the aircraft up to AUA standards and, among other things, installed the seats. The manager explained that the second A320neo in Toulouse

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