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October 18th

Six French airports briefly closed due to suspected terrorism

On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, a total of six airports in France had to be evacuated and temporarily closed due to bomb threats. The reasons were different, as at some airports the threats were received via social media or email, and at others it was about unattended luggage. The airports affected were Beauvais, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Lyon and Lille. The executive has since been able to give the all-clear.

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Bulgaria Air cancels flights to Tel Aviv

Bulgaria's national airline Bulgaria Air announced that existing flights to Tel Aviv must be temporarily cancelled. Bulgaria Air recently announced that flights to Tel Aviv must be cancelled. The flights on October 19 and 22 are primarily affected, the airline reports. However, it is not known when the flights can be resumed.

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Skyalps is in the starting blocks in Linz

From October 30, 2023, the Upper Austrian capital will again be connected to Düsseldorf three times a week. The new operator on this route is the South Tyrolean regional airline Skyalps, which will fly with de Havilland Dash 8-400s. This route was originally served by Tyrolean Airways. Due to the takeover and integration into Austrian Airlines, Austrian Airlines flew with de Havilland Dash 8-400s for years. The handover to its sister company Eurowings was not successful, as the German aviation company did not last long. The aircraft used proved to be too large and the flight times were not particularly attractive, especially for business travelers. “The resumption of flights with SkyAlps is the first step in the restart. To mark the launch of the connection, SkyAlps passengers travelling between October 30.10.2023, 31.01.2024 and January 1, 30 will receive a special thank you from the airport in the form of free VIP lounge access and a free parking space at K2024 for the duration of their journey. We hope that the market will accept the route well from the start and that we will then be able to agree with SkyAlps in a second step on the further expansion of the connection and new projects," says Linz Airport Director Norbert Draskovits. Skyalps will initially fly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from October 8, 400. For the time being, the aircraft will come from Bolzano via Düsseldorf to Linz and then fly back in reverse order. In Upper Austria, there are high hopes that the route will prove successful and that the regional carrier can be persuaded to station a de Havilland Dash XNUMX-XNUMX in Linz-Hörsching. "We are in the starting blocks

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Flynas is flying to Karachi again

The airline Flynas was able to announce a change as part of the revision of its own flight schedule. The airline will resume the route between Riyadh and Karachi. The airline Flynas was recently able to announce the reactivation of the route between Riyadh and Karachi. The route is scheduled to start in mid-November 2023 and the city of Karachi will be served by two weekly flights, according to the Aero Routes portal. The flights will be operated with Airbus A320neo aircraft.

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Volotea flies from Strasbourg to Split

The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea will start flying between Strasbourg and Split during the coming summer season. The low-cost carrier plans to offer a weekly flight between the two cities. The low-cost airline Volotea will start operating another route next summer. The low-cost carrier plans to maintain weekly flight operations between Strasbourg and Split from June 26, according to the portal Ex-Yu Aviation News. The flights in question will be operated with Airbus A320 aircraft.

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Vienna: Austrian Airlines is increasing its number of European destinations

In the 2024 summer flight schedule, Austrian Airlines will operate some short-haul routes from Vienna-Schwechat more frequently. These include both warm water and holiday destinations. The carrier has already announced that the new Seville route will be increased to three rotations per week in summer 2024. In the area of ​​city destinations, the reservation system has made it clear that Chișinău and Vienna will be connected 13 times a week in the future. Tirana and Nice will be increased to 21 rotations and Vilnius to four. Austrian Airlines also intends to fly to the island destinations Olbia and Palermo more frequently in the 2024 summer flight schedule. Both destinations will be increased by one weekly destination each and can now be booked four times a week.

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Stuttgart with new routes in winter 2023/24

The 2023/2023 winter flight schedule will begin at Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport at the end of October 24. 28 airlines will then fly regularly to 64 destinations in 26 countries. With around 22.000 planned take-offs and landings, there will be around 15 percent more flight movements than last winter. For the first time, Eurowings will be offering a connection to Dubai, which will be served on Sundays and Thursdays. Eurowings also offers other holiday destinations such as Agadir in Morocco, Athens, Barcelona and Fuerteventura. Eurowings also flies to Monastir in Tunisia and the Albanian capital Tirana. In addition to its destination Bordeaux, the Spanish airline Volotea will also fly to Nantes in Brittany in winter. Marsa Alam on the Red Sea with its sandy beaches and coral reefs is offered by both Air Cairo and the charter airline Freebird. If you are drawn to the north, Eurowings will take you to the Swedish capital Stockholm. Eurowings also serves the Romanian capital Bucharest, and the Romanian airline Dan Air flies to Brasov. In addition to many European destinations, important hub airports such as Amsterdam, Istanbul, London, Paris, Warsaw, Vienna and Zurich are also regularly served in winter. Transfer flights ensure the country's airport's global connectivity. The winter flight schedule is valid until the time change in spring on Sunday, March 31, 2024. Then the summer flight schedule begins, including nonstop flights from Delta Air Lines to Atlanta and a new Eurowings connection to Iceland.

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Only Corsica flights remain: Air France is largely withdrawing from Paris-Orly

Air France and Transavia intend to reorganize the domestic flights offered from the Paris airports Charles de Gaulle and Orly by the 2024 summer flight schedule. With the exception of the Corsica connections, all Air France flights will in future be operated from Charles de Gaulle. This means that Orly will concentrate on the Transavia brand, which is in the low-cost segment. Air France will only operate domestic flights to Corsica from this airport. The changeover is to take place gradually by 2026. At Charles de Gaulle Airport, Air France will use the capacity withdrawn from Orly to improve regional connections to international flights. The affected employees at the Orly base will be offered jobs at the French capital's largest airport. However, there will also be effects on the Toulouse, Marseille and Nice bases, which also operate flights in Orly traffic. The job cuts, which are to be achieved through fluctuation and voluntary transfers to Charles de Gaulle Airport, are to be kept to a minimum. The airline plans to negotiate appropriate solutions with the unions. The subsidiary Transavia is to take over numerous routes in Orly that were previously offered under the Air France brand. Ultimately, the measure is intended to ensure that the group's presence at France's second-largest airport remains constant. However, no precise details have been given yet.

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Rail transport: ÖBB takes over Go-Ahead Germany

The Austrian Federal Railways will also be active in public transport in Germany in the future, as they are taking over the private provider Go-Ahead Germany. For example, this company is active in Baden-Württemberg on behalf of the state. The formal buyer is ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG. The contract was signed on October 12, 2023 and still has to be approved by the competition authorities. Go-Ahead and the ÖBB expect approval this year. The seller is the British transport company Go-Ahead, which operates in Germany in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg with subsidiaries in regional transport as part of tendered contract services. These are now to be taken over by the Austrian Federal Railways. The ÖBB has not yet given any information on which brand the previous Go-Ahead trains will operate under in the future.

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Munich Airport wants to purchase autonomous passenger boarding bridges

Last week, Munich Airport announced that it had signed a letter of intent with Dabico Airport Solutions Germany GmbH to develop an innovative concept for fully automated passenger boarding bridges. "With this pioneering project, we want to reduce the time it takes to dock and undock the passenger boarding bridges and increase the operational safety and efficiency of our handling processes," says Jost Lammers, CEO of Munich Airport GmbH. The development of the autonomous passenger boarding bridges is part of a digitalization strategy at Munich Airport that includes operational, commercial and, above all, passenger-friendly processes and technologies. The numerous measures already implemented include biometric boarding pass controls, biometric access controls to boarding gates and lounges, so-called “smart trolleys” for navigation, flight information and shopping offers, chatbots for passenger inquiries, self-check-out cash registers, self-order terminals in restaurants, sensor technology for calculating waiting times at security checks, as well as robotics projects in the area of ​​ground traffic services and the use of robots for cleaning in Terminal 2 and the satellite.

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