About the editor

Granit Pireci is an editor at Aviation.Direct and specializes in aviation in Southeast Europe. Before that he worked for AviationNetOnline (formerly Austrian Aviation Net).
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New start: Norwegian announces 78 routes

Originally, the financially troubled carrier announced that it would take around a year of flight break. Now things will turn out differently and flight operations should start again in July 2020. A few weeks ago, Norwegian Air wanted

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Icelandair wants less 737-Max

The Boeing 757-200 will operate longer than originally planned. In return, the carrier wants to reduce the 737 max order. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing is experiencing an unprecedented wave of cancellations during this crisis. The 737 Max model in particular is losing rapidly

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Corona comeback: China cancels flights again

The renewed spread of the corona virus in the Chinese capital Beijing is now also having an impact on air traffic. Beijing is falling back into old patterns: Due to the new Covid-19 outbreak, protective measures in the Chinese capital are drastic

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Eurowings presents Corona travel assistant

After the umbrella association of airlines (IATA) presented the Covid-19 map, Eurowings is now also presenting an in-house travel assistant: the “Eurowings Flight Guide” is intended to help people keep an eye on entry regulations, which often change at short notice. There

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Air traffic: USA and China reach agreement

A compromise has now been reached in the dispute between the two states over air traffic. The week-long political squabble between the two superpowers is slowly subsiding: representatives of the Chinese and US governments allow each other four

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Wizzair announces base in Bacau

The stationing of aircraft at Dortmund Airport in Germany is also to be announced on Thursday. The airport has already invited to a press conference. Wizz Air continues where it left off: the low cost

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AUA: Refunds are still a long way off

According to the German Travel Agency Association, airlines in Germany alone owe agents around four billion euros. Many people still have to wait for their ticket refunds because the airlines are currently being overrun with requests and

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Air France wants to fly to 150 destinations

Flight operations are slowly starting up again. There should be eleven flights a week between Vienna and Paris by the end of August. At Air France, the demand for the summer months is increasing, which is why the carrier plans to fly more often.

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