Possible EU ban of Turkish Airlines, flydubai

There are calls to sanction airlines bringing migrants to Belarus https://euobserver.com/world/153468 Without going to politics, what leverage does EU have to force Turkish Airlines to stop flying to Belarus. Outright ban from EU airspace would work but I think is highly unlikely at this point. Are ...

Re: Ryanair launches Riga base with 16 new routes

I would say these routes show crisis on Ryanair part. They have nowhere to fly and not enough markets to tap. They will never be able to fill planes in many of these routes and anybody savy in the market knows it. Routes like RIX-KRK would have been impossible to fill even in Summer 2019 with 5 euro...

Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread

From Lithuania they will be operating about 10% of the flights in the second half of November. That is compared to what they were intending to operate/selling couple months ago .

Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread

Wizz Air seat maps do not represent booked capacity, they restrict seats they sell to combat sitting together with only some of the seats paid.

Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread

Wizz failed in FRA - they closed their routes there and now are opening Sofia-Frankfurt Hahn again instead of closed route to FRA.

Re: Austria to introduce minimum price for plane tickets

Today Wizz Air has a promotion:

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Re: Updated :Norwegian Bankruptcy

They just loaded back for sale about 50 routes to fly in July, some of them at pre-covid high frequencies, like daily OSL-PLQ (which was 2-3 weekly last year).

Re: Updated :Norwegian Bankruptcy

They fly those 7 aircraft on domestic routes in Norway. All those hundreds of international, transatlantic, domestic in Spain etc routes they sell - at the moment from September - they don't intend fly them this year, thats acording to their rescue plan. All the staff in Spain, UK etc fired. They sh...

Re: Updated :Norwegian Bankruptcy

skipness1E wrote:

Are you interested in this bridge I have to sell?

Re: Updated :Norwegian Bankruptcy

Norwegian still 30% cheaper than AF-KLM :) They have tremendous growth opportunities as it is easy to grow from current 7 aircraft. Just imagine how much Norwegian will be worth when they start flying double digits of aircraft and enter international markets outside Norway as they hope to do sometim...

Re: Belavia flights still operating

The larger capitals maybe, but there is literally no sense in keeping flights to smaller destinations like GVA going (which was operating last week). Using the CRJ200LR so probably very little cargo, and presumably very few passengers. Surely there is a clear line between promoting national pride/m...

Re: Norwegian Puts 4 Subsidiaries Into Bankruptcy

I am not sure about applicable law in those countries but shouldn't that be investigated legally? If company exists only to provide services to one client, is owned and managed by that client - that certainly looks like just a fraud scheme to skimp on debts? And parent company should be made liable?

Re: Lufthansa Retiring Some A380s, A340s, 747s, and A320s

Isn't Lufhansa insolvent right now? They suspended refunds because they do not have money to return. If they do not have the money then don't directors have a duty to apply to bankruptcy court? Or why don't some passengers as creditors initiate bankruptcy proceedings at some local court?

Re: DY about to go bust?

Soon their market cap will be less than Lauda losses for last year and Ryanair still has some cash around.

Re: Storm Ciara over Europe - Impact on Aviation

But only Lufhansa group canceled everything. Easyjet, Ryanair and others successfully operate most of their flights. Looks like Lufthansa made decision to make no effort whatsoever to try to operate at least some of their flights.

Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread

All these new flights to be operated by outbase rotations (like Timisoara-Bergamo-Tirana-Bergamo-Timisoara) with no new planes deployed. So there will be a lot of schedule reshuffling, frequencies decreased elsewhere and maybe even some canceled routes to make these flights happen.

Re: VIE Bloodbath: Austrian taking over Eurowings Europe

I think Eurowings is not viable long term. It loses loads of money dragging down whole Lufhansa group. And it cannot compete with Ryanair or other LCC. Plan to integrate Brussels Airlines into Eurowings failed. Now Eurowings failed in Vienna. I also think that Lufthansa group CEO Spohr should go. Hi...

Re: Ryanair: 11 extra planes, 27 new routes in Poland

Some 50% more planes but only 8% passenger growth. Buzzzzz

Re: Powerbank causes fire on China Eastern A320neo MU2809 NKG-XMN

In Europe Wizz Air has already banned charging using powerbanks on board. They say that during safety briefing but do not enforce much.

Re: Ryanair starts flying to Georgia

Kutaisi airport is not about Kutaisi. It's gateway to whole Georgia. People going to skiing resorts like Gudauri (North of Tbilisi, some 6 hours transfer time) also use Kutaisi. At least all the people I know who went there used this option instead of flying with a stop to Tbilisi. Of course more Ry...

Re: Ryanair cutting routes , selling planes ?

Also the difference is that staff has a lot less options now. I don't think there is an airline that is hiring 737 pilots in Europe at the moment. With Norwegian downsizing there should be pilot surplus now.

Re: Wizzair to start new Edinburgh routes (rumour)

Now open for booking.

Will they now cancel their Budapest-Glasgow route? Glasgow-Katowice ends in September and Glasgow-Budapest is the last and only route left from Glasgow.

Re: Wizz Air Announces a New Round of Expansion at VIE

Blerg wrote:

But my question was not so much about the operational aspect of the route, more if there would be actual demand for them to fly a domestic German route like the one mentioned before.

Re: Norwegian: Postponement of delivery of Airbus aircraft

I thought that with Max situation now they should be able to resell new Airbuses or their delivery slots with profit or come up with some wet or dry lease agreement that makes them money. Why would they just give up delivery slots when there is 5 year wait for new orders?

Re: LH to order 100 B737MAX or A320NEO next year

It would be quite difficult for Lufhansa to order MAX at the moment when German media posts articles like this US consumers protectors demand that Boeing 737 max 8 should never take off again (in German) https://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/wirtschaft/boeing-737-max-8-verbraucherschuetzer-fordern-fue...

Re: B737MAX Grounded Worldwide

The safety culture is quite shocking: One of the most astonishing things to me in this report is the AOA sensor value of 74,5°. This value is far beyond anything the aircraft could realistically achieve, and yet the system used this value to activate stick shaker and MCAS. Obviously Boeing not only ...

Re: MAX 10 for Ryanair and A321 for Laudamotion, early talks

So what are the chances that Laudamotion and Ryanair eventually merge? Or do they plan on being separate for the foreseeable future? For all practical purposes they are the same. Ryanair now owns 100% of Laudamotion. They also have recently aligned all cabin bagage rules etc. Laudamotion now is Rya...

Re: LOT News Thread - 2019

BT already operates five destinations out of VNO, while LO will offer five daily flights this summer. It's obvious that the market is important to both airlines. I checked online and A220 is LCY certified meaning BT could have easily operated this route. BT has only bigger A220-300 and only the sma...

Re: Small Planet’s German airline to restructure after insolvency

I read somеwhere they have 20000 outstanding claims for EU261 compensations for delays. This seems to be first when airline has troubles because of this as there seem to be no other major issues.

Re: Primera Air adds MAD-BOS/EWR/YYZ

mattyfitzg wrote:

Kadish wrote:

Re: Wizz Air starts charging for all hand luggage (sort of)

Because their new policy is confusing. What happens if I arrive at airport tomorrow with a small backpack that is to fragile to go to hold but fits under seat and was always fine to travel? Do I have to pay for priority boarding on the spot (25 eur) to bring it on board? No. OP's post is confusing....

Re: Wizz Air starts charging for all hand luggage (sort of)

Smaller bags, that can fit under the seat in front of you, has been and will continue to be allowed in the cabin for all passengers. There is no information on Wizz website that this is so. Also on another forum there is a person who got a reply from call center today that this is no longer the cas...

Re: Wizz Air starts charging for all hand luggage (sort of)

Because their new policy is confusing. What happens if I arrive at airport tomorrow with a small backpack that is to fragile to go to hold but fits under seat and was always fine to travel? Do I have to pay for priority boarding on the spot (25 eur) to bring it on board?

Wizz Air starts charging for all hand luggage (sort of)

Ok, this title is a bit exaggerating but the policy change they quietly introduced yesterday in my view amounts to that. Basically their rules now say that if you do not purchase priority boarding, your luggage has to go to hold with no exceptions. Ryanair for example have rule that says that you ca...

Re: Ryanair to acquire 75 % shares of Laudamtion

No matter what, its beneficial for both. Ryanair has now access to the Low Cost employment model avail in Austria and can recruit pilots with another branding. If they stay with Airbus also it is the beginning of an Airbus fleet for Ryanair or will they switch to Boeing in the long term ? Also this...

Re: Wizz Air adds more destinations to MXP

VNO-MXP and SKP-MXP are instead of VNO-BGY and SKP-BGY - Wizz Air just switches Milan airport for those routes from start of Summer season.

Re: Ryanair to recognize pilot unions

Those pilots that did strike this morning should be moved to a nice new unionized base in Lappeenranta (or similar).

Re: Runway improvement works - SKG - Thessaloniki

When the repair works are schedulled to be finished? Is getting ready by March realistic?

Re: Why do LCCs have such small market share in Germany?

And the chart is wrong. SAS or even Lufthansa are as much LCC as Latvian airBaltic nowadays. So it shows more which countries carriers are classified as LCC and which are not.

Re: Air Berlin pilots now on sick leave strike

When an airline went bankrupt in Lithuania, AOC was revoked immediately. Main stated reason for not waiting for possible rescue scenarios was that pilots would not be able to safely operate flights because of the stress of possible redundancy. This would definitely apply to airBerlin - pilots not fi...

Re: airberlin axes Curaçao, Cancun, Havanna, Varadero, Punta Cana, Puerto Plata w/e 9/25

When airBerlin stops operating a flight, when the slots it used become available for others? Are other airlines able to use them immediately, from Winter season or airBerlin get to keep them for some longer time without using them?

Re: AirBaltic Launches Q400 Replacement RFP

Their all Q400 flights see quite freequent subsitutes to larger aircraft when demand warrants it. Sometimes it is other way and you get smaller plane but that's a lot less freequent. Upgradind to all jets fleet will allow them to downgrade more easily.

Re: airBaltic claims world record time between delivery and entering service

TheLion wrote:

11:15am to 12:17am is actually 13 hours...

airBaltic claims world record time between delivery and entering service

They say it took only one hour to enter revenue service after delivery flight landed. I think it usually takes days if not weeks. The long-awaited and exciting Friday is finally here… However, this is not just a regular Friday for airBaltic. Not only did our new aircraft, the 6th Bombardier CS300 jo...

Re: Easyjet to start flying from Southampton

MrHMSH Southampton is well connected by both motorways and rail with upto three trains an hour to London Waterloo Station some taking only 60 minutes as well as an hourly service to Reading and further north and trains going West as far as Weymouth. Why it isn't called London Southampton Airport th...

Re: Ryanair seat assignments all over the aircraft

Something interesting I found in FRs conditions of carriage that was linked in another thread. "Effective from October 2016 for an adult travelling with children under 12 (excl. infants) – it will become mandatory for one adult in the booking to reserve a seat. All children under 12 in the sam...