March 25, 2024

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March 25, 2024

Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines expand codeshare partnership

The airlines Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines have announced the expansion of their codeshare partnership. The expansion includes numerous flights from Istanbul, which will in future be operated by the Turkish national carrier. The airlines Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines are planning to expand their codeshare partnership. Specifically, the airlines are planning to take over flights from Istanbul, which are to be operated by Turkish Airlines. The Turkish airline is planning to take over flights from Istanbul to Vienna, Madrid and Prague, as the Aero Routes portal reports.

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Frankfurt-Hahn with five new summer routes

The 2024 summer flight schedule will begin at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport at the end of March 2024. The airlines operating there will be offering a total of five new routes. The offer The low-cost airline Ryanair will offer two weekly flights each to Pescara and Lamezia Terme. The flight connection to Budapest will also be reactivated. Agadir is on the flight schedule once a week and Rome-Fiumicino will soon be flown more frequently. Ryanair will increase its flights to Palma de Mallorca to up to ten times a week from May 1, 2024. In summer 2024, flights to London-Stansted will be at the same frequency. While Air Arabia Maroc will serve the destination Nador, Air Serbia will again offer flights to Nis, and Flyone will fly to Chișinău. Wizz Air offers the destinations Skopje, Tirana and Sofia from Frankfurt-Hahn.

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Air Baltic flies to Ljubljana all year round

The Latvian airline Air Baltic plans to offer its flight connection between Riga and Ljubljana all year round. Originally, the route was only supposed to be served in summer. The Latvian airline Air Baltic is planning changes to its flight schedule. The Riga-Ljubljana route, which was originally only supposed to be served in summer, will now be served all year round. The route is to start operating with two weekly flights from the end of April, as the portal Ex-Yu Aviation News reports.

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Two bomb threats in Denmark

There were two bomb threats in Scandinavian airspace on March 21, 2023. The SAS flight SK1874 and the Norwegian flight DY971 were affected. The first-mentioned connection was operated by Cityjet with the Bombardier CRJ-900, which has the registration EI-FPR. Norwegian was using the Boeing 737-800 LN-NGM. Both aircraft were diverted to Copenhagen-Kastrup on the instructions of air traffic control, where the jets were thoroughly examined by law enforcement experts. The all-clear was given.

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EastarJet flies to China

The airline EastarJet plans to resume selected flights to China in April. Flights are planned between Seoul and Shanghai. The airline EastarJet plans to resume the Seoul Incheon-Shanghai Pu Dong route in April. The airline is initially planning three weekly flights on this route, later the route will be served daily.

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Missed flight due to passport control: police pay for new ticket

The border police had to deal with technical problems at Stockholm-Arlanda airport. This meant that a woman had to wait for over an hour and therefore missed her flight. The police covered the cost of her replacement ticket. The woman was said to have had to pay an additional 165 euros. This money would have been reimbursed to her by the police. This procedure is extremely rare, as there is no legal right to compensation if you miss your flight due to delays at official passport controls.

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Edelweiss deploys first A350 to Las Vegas

The holiday airline Edelweiss Air will initially use the future Airbus A350 aircraft type to fly to Las Vegas and Vancouver. The first unit is expected to join the fleet from April 2025. According to current planning, the first of six aircraft will join the Edelweiss fleet at the beginning of April 2025. Before the aircraft is used on long-haul routes, it will fly to various short- and medium-haul destinations in the first few weeks. Las Vegas will be the first long-haul destination that Edelweiss will fly to with the Airbus A350. From mid-May 2025, the aircraft will be used on this route three times a week. With the introduction of the second Airbus A350 from the beginning of July 2025, the Zurich-Vancouver-Zurich route will be served daily. The third Airbus A2025 will join the Edelweiss fleet at the beginning of October 350. The fourth will be added in winter 2025 and aircraft numbers 5 and 6 in the second half of 2026.

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Outlook: Hamburg starts the 2024 summer flight schedule

In just a few days, the 2024 summer flight schedule will also begin at Hamburg Airport. Three airlines will start or reactivate new routes. Chisinau, among others, can be reached non-stop again. "It's summertime again at Hamburg Airport. The airlines are starting the new season immediately, with three of a total of eight first flights taking place in the first week. At the same time, the airlines are increasing their frequencies again and flying to popular destinations such as Mallorca or Turkey even more frequently. Holiday planes are taking off south several times a day. This clearly shows that demand for air travel - especially in the holiday segment - is high. In addition to the classic sunny destinations, long-distance trips are also popular. We are all the more pleased that Qatar Airways will start operations at Hamburg Airport and make more than 170 destinations worldwide even more flexible to reach," says Katja Bromm, Head of Communications at Hamburg Airport. Qatar Airways will fly to Hamburg Airport once a day from Doha from July 1, 2024. As early as May 26, 2024, Hisky Europe will fly between Chisinau and the Hanseatic city on Wednesdays and Sundays. From March 31, 2024, Eurowings will also offer flights to Manchester, which will be served four times a week. On the same day, Wizz Air will start flights to Rome at the same frequency. Just one day later, on April 1, Nouvelair will start scheduled operations at Hamburg Airport. To start with, the airline will fly nonstop to Tunis in Tunisia, with flights taking place twice a week. From June 26, the Tunisian airline will also offer a charter flight from Hamburg to Djerba, which

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Easter holidays 2024: Nuremberg expects 172.000 passengers

Nuremberg Airport expects around 2024 passengers during the current Easter holidays in 172.000. Around 1.250 take-offs and landings are planned for the two-week holidays, which corresponds to more than 70 per day. With around 13.600 passengers, April 6 is expected to be the busiest day. The main tourist destinations include Italy with Bari, Cagliari, Lamezia Terme and Naples, while Spain is represented by the mainland destinations Alicante, Barcelona, ​​Malaga, Seville, Girona and Valencia, as well as the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Portugal is represented by Porto and Faro, and Croatia by Zadar. "The Easter holidays are a warm-up for us before the big summer travel wave. We have prepared well, and our employees are looking forward to giving passengers a relaxed start to their vacation," explains Managing Director Michael Hupe.

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Edelweiss upgrades its streaming offering

Swiss sister company Edelweiss Air is now offering an expanded entertainment program on board its Airbus A320 fleet, which passengers can use on their own devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. Until now, the carrier had no "current blockbusters" to choose from. But that is exactly what they are changing now and are currently offering films such as Paw Patrol, Asteroid City, Barbie and a few others. Edelweiss plans to revise the film selection about once every six months and then always have eight new "blockbusters" in the program.

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