February 27, 2024

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February 27, 2024

Summer: Lufthansa City starts flights from Munich

The Lufthansa Group subsidiary Lufthansa City plans to start flight operations in summer 2024. The first destinations from Munich have already been announced. The Lufthansa subsidiary Lufthansa City will start flight operations in summer 2024, as the portal Flug Revue reports. The first destinations will be flown to from Munich: From Munich, the Lufthansa subsidiary will fly to destinations such as Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Hanover. In addition, European destinations will also be served, including Birmingham, Bordeaux and Manchester.

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LATAM Airlines Brasil and Turkish Airlines expand codeshare partnership

The airlines LATAM Airlines Brasil and Turkish Airlines have expanded their codeshare partnership. In the future, Turkish Airlines will take over flights from Istanbul for LATAM Airlines Brasil. The airlines LATAM Airlines Brasil and Turkish Airlines are expanding their codeshare partnership. The expansion includes flights from Istanbul that are operated by the Turkish airline. Specifically, the expansion includes flights from Istanbul to Barcelona, ​​Milan Malpensa and Paris CDG. The routes will be operated in codeshare from the end of February, according to the Aero Routes portal.

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Air Baltic begins Alicante flights

The Latvian airline Air Baltic is starting flights on the Riga-Alicante route. The flights will be operated twice a week. The Latvian airline Air Baltic has started the Riga-Alicante route. The route will be operated with two weekly flights, the flight duration will be 4 hours and 15 minutes.

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Brothers fight on Ryanair flight to Tenerife

On February 19, 2024, a fight broke out between two brothers and a woman on Ryanair flight FR2969 from Edinburgh to Tenerife. The troublemakers were arrested immediately after landing at the Spanish airport. The Boeing 737-800 with the registration EI-EVV was en route from the Scottish capital to the Canary Island. At first it was an unremarkable flight before two brothers got into a violent fight, headbutting each other and spitting. One of the issues was that a woman had previously behaved inappropriately. According to claims by other passengers, the disruptive woman behaved like this for around two hours. Despite repeated requests, the crew did not intervene. Ultimately, the situation escalated. An eyewitness filmed the incident and posted it on YouTube.

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Broken nose wheel: Ryanair B737 blocked Charleroi Airport

Due to a technical defect in the nose wheel of the Boeing 737-800 with the registration EI-DYC, there were delays at Charleroi Airport in Belgium on January 25, 2024. The aircraft, operated by Ryanair, arrived from Rome-Ciampino under flight number FR9719. The nose wheel had a technical defect. As a result, the aircraft "stopped" on the runway and had to be repaired on site. This meant that flight operations were severely restricted until around 2:00 a.m. The exact cause of the incident has yet to be determined. In any case, all passengers and crew members were able to leave the medium-haul jet safely.

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Despite subsidies: Lumiwings is significantly reducing its Tuzla presence

Just a few months ago, the Greek airline Lumiwings was awarded five subsidized routes in Tuzla. These apparently do not seem to be being accepted by the market as expected, as the offer is now being halved. Effective March 6, 2024, Lumiwings will fly less frequently from Tuzla to Esbjerg, Halmstad, Maastricht and Saarbrücken. Only one weekly flight will then be offered. The connection to Stockholm-Skavsta is about to be discontinued. The plan to also offer Istanbul flights in the future is in acute jeopardy. The sale of tickets has already been stopped. Lumiwings did not want to comment on this.

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Sarajevo: Flyadeal announces Jeddah flights

The low-cost airline Flyadeal intends to offer a new non-stop connection between Jeddah and Sarajevo in the 2024 summer flight schedule. This is in addition to the seasonal route from Riyadh. Between June 4 and August 24, 2024, Airbus A320s will fly between Jeddah and Sarajevo on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Riyadh route, which was first served last year, is to be served daily this summer season. Competitor Flynas also intends to set course for Sarajevo.

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Air Serbia has to temporarily shorten its flight schedule

The airline Air Serbia has reduced its offer for March 2024 by around four percent due to the loss of capacity previously provided by Marathon Airlines. According to the company, this is a temporary measure, as it is looking for additional aircraft to be used under ACMI contracts. Most recently, the cooperation with Klasjet was expanded to three Boeing 737-800s. According to a report by Ex-Yu-Aviation.com, Air Serbia has significantly reduced routes to Milan-Malpensa, Istanbul and Frankfurt am Main. It is offering up to four fewer weekly rotations. On the Vienna route, two rotations per week will be temporarily eliminated. Air Serbia has terminated the Greek wet lease provider without notice after a minor accident caused by Marathon Airlines.

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Lufthansa takes five CRJ-1000s from Cityjet into wet lease

In the 2024 summer flight schedule, Lufthansa will wet lease a total of five Bombardier CRJ-1000s from Cityjet. These will be stationed in Frankfurt am Main and used on numerous routes. According to a report by CH-Aviation.com, the leased aircraft will be used from Lufthansa's largest hub to Geneva, Basel, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Münster/Osnabrück, Dresden, Leipzig/Halle, Zagreb and Ljubljana, among others. The Kranich Group wants to use the wet lease aircraft to at least partially compensate for capacity bottlenecks that arise, among other things, due to the failure of numerous aircraft in the A320neo series. However, this will have no impact on the discontinuation of Frankfurt flights from Friedrichshafen, Linz and Innsbruck.

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