August 29, 2023

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August 29, 2023

China Southern resumes Wuhan-Seoul Incheon

The airline China Southern plans to resume the route between Wuhan and Seoul Incheon from the end of September 2023, which according to the plan includes five weekly flights. The airline China Southern will resume the Wuhan-Seoul Incheon route from the end of September 2023, as the portal Aeroroutes confirms. The route will include five weekly flights and will be served by the Boeing 737.

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Air Serbia doubles Rome flights

The carrier Air Serbia will expand and modify its flight traffic as part of the winter flight schedule. The first development can be seen on the Belgrade-Rome route, where flight traffic will more than double. The Serbian airline Air Serbia operated five weekly flights to Rome last winter. However, this is to be doubled this winter: As can be seen from the winter flight schedule, the Serbian national carrier can achieve a flight frequency of 13 weekly flights. The direct competitor on the route is the low-cost carrier Wizz Air, as the portal Ex-Yu Aviation reports.

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Air Serbia plans to start Wroclaw flights

The Serbian airline Air Serbia has had a successful year with regard to the Krakow destination. After this successful start in Poland, the Serbian national airline plans to start flights to Wroclaw and Warsaw. The Serbian national carrier Air Serbia has achieved sufficient success on the route between Belgrade and the Polish city of Krakow. The result of this positive result is, as expected, a possible expansion of flights to Poland. The Serbian airline Air Serbia is considering starting the Wroclaw and Warsaw routes, as confirmed by the Ex-Yu Aviation News portal. CEO Jiri Marek said the following: "Marek: We are very satisfied with the development of the Belgrade - Krakow - Belgrade flights. We have had a very high load factor on the route from the beginning. Half of the passengers are transit passengers flying via Belgrade to Croatia, Greece and the United States. The route has a very high potential to be served daily from the new year."

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Zurich: Edelweiss launches two Finland destinations

The holiday airline Edelweiss will be flying to two additional destinations in Finland from February 2024. These are the destinations Ivalo and Kuusamo. Edelweiss will fly non-stop from Zurich to Ivalo and Kuusamo every Friday from February 2 to March 22, 2024. The first sports luggage in the normal category will be transported free of charge. The carrier is therefore likely to target winter sports enthusiasts who want to spend their holidays in Finland. The short- and medium-haul route network in the 2023/24 winter flight schedule consists of 39 destinations.

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Malta: Swiftair offshoot Bridges Air has taken delivery of its first ATR72 freighter

The Maltese start-up Bridges Air is getting closer and closer to its planned launch, as the first ATR9-72 freighter, 200H-BWW, has been registered. The turboprop aircraft comes from Swiftair, to whose group of companies the company belongs. The company plans to start with an ATR72F from the Swiftair Group's inventory. The group of companies includes the operating airlines Swiftair Hellas, West Atlantic, Cygnus Air and Swiftair. The latter AOC also operates passenger flights, for example for Uep. The AOC and operating license are to be issued by the TM-CAD in the foreseeable future. Bridges Air Cargo is aiming for the first flight in the third quarter of 2023.

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Erfurt: Freebird launches Antalya flights

The Turkish airline Freebird Airlines intends to offer non-stop flights from Erfurt to Antalya again from the end of September 2023. Tickets have already been sold via the company's website, among other places. The carrier's reservation system shows that this route will be served with Airbus A29s on Fridays from September 2023, 320. The Antalya-Erfurt route has the flight number FH1207 and the return flight is FH1208. For the time being, this connection is limited to November 3, 2023 inclusive. It is rather unlikely that it will be extended into the 2023/24 winter flight schedule, as Freebird only offered this route from Erfurt for a few weeks last year.

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Leasing company sues Go First for illegal “spare parts extraction”

The Irish lessor ACG Aircraft is taking the insolvent airline Go First to court because, from the aircraft owner's point of view, important components were removed from at least two Airbus A320neos without consent. On May 2, 2023, Go First's flight operations had to be suspended because the company ran out of financial steam. Insolvency proceedings were also filed. Since then, the company has been trying to get back into the air, but has not yet succeeded. The Indian low-cost airline sees the cause of the bankruptcy primarily in delivery problems at Pratt&Whitney, but the US company did not let the accusation go uncommented, but publicly struck back and claimed that Go First has a long history of late payment. As a direct result of the bankruptcy, numerous lessors have demanded their aircraft back and have already "cashed in" a significant portion of them. Some of them are already in use by other airlines, i.e. new lessees. But not all lessors got their property easily, because ACG Aircraft Leasing is faced with the problem that at least two Airbus A320neos are not airworthy due to the removal of numerous components. This is one of the reasons why the company went to court in Delhi and presented numerous photos and documents showing missing parts as evidence before the Supreme Court. And the list is long: for example, the two A320neos are missing emergency slides, at least one sidestick controller and engine blades. This means that the planes cannot take off for safety reasons. In addition, some smaller components are missing. The lessor suspects that these may have been removed illegally.

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Nuremberg: Eurowings takes on Marsa Alam

The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings will offer Marsa Alam, another Egyptian destination from Nuremberg, in the 2023/24 winter flight schedule. The first flight on this route is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2023. The carrier plans to serve the holiday route on Friday under the flight numbers EW4110/EW4111. Airbus A320s will generally be used. The sale of tickets has already started.

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Riyadh Air will initially focus on flights to/from Saudi Arabia

The new airline Riyadh Air is expected to launch in 2025. Company boss Tony Douglas has now made it clear that the focus will initially be on traffic to/from Saudi Arabia. This also means that Riyadh Air will not initially pose aggressive competition to competitors such as Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates Airline. The latter has been speculated about since the plans were announced and has certainly been "fueled" by official announcements from Saudi Arabia. Of course, it is not completely off the table that Riyadh will become a major hub where passengers from all over the world will transfer, but not in the short term. In the first phase, the planned carrier will concentrate on transporting as many travelers to/from Saudi Arabia as possible. The expansion into a hub carrier that will take on the regional competitors mentioned in the previous paragraph could only follow later. Tony Douglas, who previously headed Etihad Airways, told the Financial Times that the first goal would be to transport travelers to/from Saudi Arabia. The concentration on these traffics is in line with the kingdom's development plans. As part of the so-called "Vision 2030", around 100 billion US dollars are being invested and the aim is to ensure that around 100 million tourists come to Saudi Arabia every year. The new Riyadh Air is part of these plans. It is of course intended that the new carrier will sooner or later develop into competition for established Gulf carriers. According to Douglas, the growth plan is "super-aggressive" because by the end of this decade, at least 100 destinations are to be served from Riyadh. This will

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Azerbaijan Airlines reactivates Baku-Geneva

After a long absence, Azerbaijan Airlines plans to return to Geneva Airport at the end of September 2023. The carrier intends to operate two weekly rotations with Airbus A319. The carrier's reservation system shows that the Baku-Geneva-Baku route will be served on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This route was last in the program immediately before the outbreak of the corona pandemic and will therefore be reactivated much later than other routes.

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