The airline Air China has announced a change in aircraft for the Beijing-Barcelona flight route. Air China is planning three weekly flights for the Beijing-Barcelona route. However, a change is to be implemented from July 1, 2023: the Airbus A30-330 is to be used until September 300.
The airline Batik Air Malaysia will start the connection between Kualu Lumpur and Hong Kong. The daily flights are scheduled to operate from August 1, 2023. Batik Air Malaysia will start the connection between Kualu Lumpur and Hong Kong. The first flight is scheduled to take place on August 1, and the flight frequency will remain daily.
The Swiss airline Helvetic Airways was able to announce an expansion of its fleet by purchasing two aircraft. With the addition of two Embraer E190s, the airline's fleet now has 18 aircraft. Helvetic Airways was recently able to expand its fleet: The airline signed a leasing agreement for two Embraer 190s, meaning that the Swiss airline will now have 18 aircraft in its inventory.
Summer, sun, hills! The warm temperatures can be enjoyed in a variety of ways in the Mühlviertler Alm Freistadt holiday region. Whether leisurely cycling on beer bike tours, hiking next to fragrant herb fields, archery in shady forests or swimming in refreshing rivers and natural bathing ponds. Here, nature, cuisine, sport and culture can be experienced in harmony. The long-distance hiking trails Johannesweg, Stoakraftweg, Nordwaldkammweg or Burgen- und Schlösserweg show the diversity of the extensive hilly landscape. Those who prefer a faster pace can go on a bike tour - leisurely cycling along hop fields, hill biking on the Tour de Alm for mountain bike fans or sporty hill and valley rides on the racing bike on asphalted goods and municipal roads. Or trotting and galloping through the natural landscape along the countless waterways. The appropriately equipped hosts make the Mühlviertel a dream destination for trail riding. When visiting one of the 13 archery and disc golf courses, the green golf course of the GC Mühlviertel St. Oswald-Freistadt with 18 holes or during a picnic with regional delicacies, the Mühlviertel granite landscape can be experienced at a more relaxed pace. The authentic pub culture with products from the Mühlviertel BioRegion, six regional breweries, family-run businesses and new, modern hotels ensure physical well-being. There is something for every taste. Art and culture fans will find more than just blue printing, stone farms and winged altars on the Gothic Road in the hills. The medieval brewing town of Freistadt, in the heart of the Mühlviertel, has impressive and almost completely preserved defensive structures and impresses with small alleys and courtyards, which can also be viewed in more detail during a guided tour. A special summer highlight is the International Street Art Festival
Instead of flying to Forli, Aeroitalia flies from Comiso to Bologna. The Italian airline's official home base is located in the first-mentioned city. The company plans to build a long-haul hub there in the medium term. However, the planned flights from Comiso also showed that demand from/to Forli is extremely low. For this reason, the service has been shifted to the larger Bologna airport. The company also announced that it would normally serve this route with Boeing 737-700s with 148 seats. The shift was implemented with effect from May 16, 2023.
Starting next year, the German holiday airline Tuifly will be flying from two German airports to the Tunisian airport Enfidha Hammamet. Available flight plan data shows that the planned connection from Hanover will be the first to be operated. This is to be served once a week from May 1, 2024. The Düsseldorf-Enfidha Hammamet route will follow on May 6, 2024 at the same frequency. As a rule, medium-haul Boeing 737 jets will be used.
The airline ASL Airlines France has announced the launch of three new Algerian routes from Lille. New routes will be to Béjaïa, Sétif and Tlemcen. Oran and Algiers are already in the portfolio. The new routes will be launched at the end of June, with frequencies varying depending on the destination. ASL Airlines France considers Lille airport to be an important hub for its activities and expects the new routes to be a success. The routes will be served by medium-haul Boeing 737 jets.
The new "open-air" photo exhibition on the sidewalk between the "Besucherpark" S-Bahn stop and the visitor park is likely to awaken a longing for distant places in many visitors: "Wanderlust" is also the title of the exhibition with 20 large-format photographs by the renowned aviation journalist Dietmar Plath. The widely traveled northern German Dietmar Plath has spent around 10.000 hours in the air. He has visited around 600 airports in over 130 countries, and portrayed most of them. He took photographs on Easter Island and in Bhutan, in Tibet, in Sri Lanka, in Antarctica, in Papua New Guinea, China and Africa. In the four decades of his professional life, Dietmar Plath has created fascinating images. His photos have been published in numerous aviation books and illustrated volumes as well as in well-known magazines.
For many holidaymakers, it is simply part of summer to rent a small boat and go on a trip near the coast. Whether or not you need a license for this is regulated extremely differently within the EU. For example, in Croatia you always need a boating license. There are no exceptions, even if some holidaymakers still have the mistaken belief that you don't need a license up to a certain number of horsepower. In Croatia you always need the "license". However, the rules are different in other EU countries. For example, in Germany you can drive a boat up to 15 hp and a maximum length of 15 meters without a license. In Spain it is also 15 hp, in Italy even 40 hp and the leader is Greece, where you don't need a license up to 70 hp.
Some time ago, the airlines Volotea and Eurowings announced a mutual distribution partnership. This has now been officially sealed, as the letter of intent signed in March 2023 has now been followed by a formal cooperation agreement. A total of 150 routes are affected, which will be made bookable with the other airline in the future. There are 104 routes from Eurowings and 46 from Volotea. According to the joint statement, there will be no overlap in the route network, so that the selection on both homepages will grow. "We are very pleased to make our partnership with Eurowings official and to expand our reach to the German market - an important step in relation to our larger growth plans in Europe. This agreement is an exciting opportunity for Volotea to offer even more customers low-cost non-stop flights so that they can discover new destinations in our extensive route network," explains Carlos Muñoz, founder and CEO of Volotea. With regard to the cooperation with the Lufthansa subsidiary, the Spanish low-cost airline is also launching eight new routes from Germany from the end of May or the beginning of October. In the future, flights to France and Italy will be offered from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Stuttgart. In the future, Volotea will also be able to reach Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Florence and Verona non-stop from Germany. "The partnership with Volotea is another milestone on our way to strengthening the 'Euro' in the Eurowings brand name. Our customers will now benefit from an even wider range of inexpensive direct flights within Europe. In addition, we are significantly strengthening our sales power, especially in southern Europe," says Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof.
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