Re: Emirates to launch DXB - MIA - BOG?

I fully agree that DXB - BOG should be served via a Europen point. LPA is an interesting suggestion. Why subject the poor passengers to the torture and nonsense that the US authorities inflicts on people in making them clear customs and immigration when they have no intention of entering the US and...

Re: Moroccan domestic air market

I flew a few years ago Fez-Marrakech on Air Arabia and the overwhelming majority of passengers seemed to be tourists like me.

Re: Emirates to launch DXB - MIA - BOG?

LightChop2Chop wrote:

They might actually do very well on this. A good comparison to this might be SQ's SIN MAN IAH....where the MAN IAH tag is mostly local pax.

Re: Emirates to launch DXB - MIA - BOG?

This doesn't make any sense, but then Emirates flew into Fort Lauderdale for a while

Wouldn't it make more sense to make it via EU?

As far as I can Lisbon, Milan, Rome or Geneva do not have flights to Bogotá.

It is shocking there are no flights between Colombia and Italy.

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2024

conaly wrote:

Frankfurt - Santiago de Compostela +1/7 to 4/7 from 1.7.24

Re: Brawl on Ryanair flight

Can we say "air brawl"? https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/ryanair-flight-diverted-mid-air-brawl-creates-chaos-reports Ryanair - Spirit ... interchangeable ... Well it is not comparable at all. Ryanair is by far the largest carrier in Europe. It has twice the number of passengers ...

Re: Have you flown the Alphabet ? (end of 2023)

To simplify just the first for each letter/number 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3O (Air Arabia Maroc) 4 - 4O (Blue Air) 5 - 6 - 6E (IndiGo) 7 - 8 - 8Q (Onur Air) 9 - A - A5 (HOP!) B - BA (British Airways) C - CL (Lufthansa CityLine) D - DE (Condor) E - EI (Aer Lingus) F - FD (Thai Air Asia) G - H - HG (NIKI) I - ...

Re: Spain Aviation - 2024

AENA has released the numbers for 2023: https://www.aena.es/es/estadisticas/informes-mensuales.html Pretty much every other airport (with scheduled flights) is at all time record. The exceptions are: - Madrid - Barcelona - Girona - La Palma - A Coruña - Vigo - Reus - Granada - Jerez - Murcia - Almer...

Re: The Most Unusual Routes You Have Flown?

I don't think it is that unusual (it is two or three daily flights), but I flew a couple of months ago Chandigarh-Jaipur on IndiGo and I was the only non-Indian in the flight. I was quite certain I was also the only non-Indian at Chandigarh airport (which was quite big and new) and there were quite ...

Re: Spain Aviation - 2024

New Ryanair routes https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1745896388867555575 Bergamo - Castellón - 31 March - 2x weekly Berlin - Castellón - 31 March - 2x weekly Alicante - Barcelona - 1 April - 3x weekly Girona - Bari - 2 July - 3x weekly ALC-BCN is an interesting one. But the train takes +5 hours; ...

Re: Italy Aviation - 2024

An odd route, Aeroitalia will launch flights between Bergamo and Southend. https://londonsouthendairport.com/news/london-southend-announces-new-route-to-milan-with-aeroitalia/ This means Milan will be linked to all 6 London airports. However there are only 10 combinations of airports between London ...

Re: Strange Routes And Their Reasons

Recently, maybe a seasonal route, KU flew KWI-AGP... maybe 3 or 4 weekly on the A338. Kuwait and Malaga ?? They have other seasonal flights from KWI to European beach cities so I guess it serves the local population/expats? But the A338 sure is a big plane for that route. Marbella has been very pop...

Re: Greece Aviation - 2024

According to Flightradar and the article, the flight tried to land in Benghazi. As for Cairo VS Chania/Heraklion, I don't find that strange. Egyptair flies regularly to CAI, so it would be much easier for them to stay there if something went wrong (they need new crew because of hours, new plane for ...

Re: Spain Aviation - 2024

Today the Ministry of Transportation has announced that the high-speed AVE trains will reach Santiago, Coruña and Vigo by March. Also low-cost AVEs ("AVLOs") will be deployed. https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo/2024/01/05/ave-llegara-ciudades-gallegas-eje-atlantico-marzo/0003_20240...

Re: COMAC C919 Production / Deliveries - 2024

This is a bit off topic but I am planning to travel to China this year and I would like to try the C919 I found out it is flown by China Eastern on one daily SHA-TFU-SHA. Are there more routes where it is used or is planned to be used this year? Chengdu is a great city to visit. More laid back and ...

Re: Agreement at EU level to link Long Distance Train to Airports with more than 12Million passengers.

On the other hand... airports like Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Dublin, Milan-Malpensa, Munich and Paris-Orly really should be linked (better) to the long-distance rail networks Metro line 14 is arriving this summer (before the Olympics) to Orly. And in the future line 18 should get into ORY too....

Re: COMAC C919 Production / Deliveries - 2024

This is a bit off topic but I am planning to travel to China this year and I would like to try the C919

I found out it is flown by China Eastern on one daily SHA-TFU-SHA. Are there more routes where it is used or is planned to be used this year?

Re: Romanian A340 stopped at Paris Vatry Airport

I saw some articles about that people flying from Asia/Africa to Central America / Mexico and it seemed that a lot of them use Turkish Airlines.

I wonder to what extent this is a major revenue source for TK.

Re: Greece Aviation - 2023

Has anyone ever operated TATL flights from Greece to North America from somewhere other than ATH? Not sure if anyone's ever tried TATL flights from somewhere like HER or SKG in the past. Considering how Greece has become a massive hotspot for Americans/Canadians since 2021 or so, I'd be curious if ...

Re: European Domestic Flying - Are Runway Lengths an Issue?

Bristol and Florence have potential for intercontinental flights on wide bodies but the runways are too short. That is why ME3 or US3 fly to “secondary” nearby Cardiff and Pisa respectively. Brs has regular tui 787 charters across the pond. I'm not sure about 777 though. Could be an opportunity for...

Re: European Domestic Flying - Are Runway Lengths an Issue?

In Spain you have LCG (2,188 m) and EAS (1,591 m) where the short-ish runways limit jet operations, with neighbouring SCQ and BIO serving as viable alternatives with a full payload. MLN is the Spanish airport with the shortest runway serving commercial traffic: 1,433 metres. Another airport that do...

Re: European Domestic Flying - Are Runway Lengths an Issue?

Bristol and Florence have potential for intercontinental flights on wide bodies but the runways are too short. That is why ME3 or US3 fly to “secondary” nearby Cardiff and Pisa respectively.

Re: Turkish Aviation - December 2023

I saw the other day some cheap flights from Europe to Iran with Anadolujet via ESB.

Is TK trying to develop ESB/Anadolujet as a secondary hub focused on regional flights? (e.g. Europe-Middle East/Caucasus)

Re: Josh Cahill banned from QR after posting negative review

I honestly think that any reviewer needs to be careful from now on if they fly in carriers like QR or EK and the rest as the cabin crew may be fired. These are people who are under lots of stress, bad working conditions and if they are not doing a great job is not because they feel like it, its the...

Re: Ryanair News and Discussion - 2023

Is Ryanair planning a Moroccan AOC? Their AOC portfolio has been growing over the years so it wouldn't be too surprising. And how else would they be allowed to operate domestic routes with a European AOC? The EU and Morocco signed an open skies agreement in December 2006, although I'm not sure when...

Re: Ryanair News and Discussion - 2023

If Ryanair is serving major domestic routes like Tangiers-Marrakesh and Fez-Marrakesh... this effectively prevents Royal Air Maroc from touching any domestic routes which do not touch Casablanca (thin PSO-type routes excepted). This is probably good overall for the country... but I'm wary of possib...

Re: Spain Aviation - 2023

Is Cordoba genuinely trying to get back in the business of commercial passenger airline travel ? Or is this just a one-off ? https://www.aviation24.be/airports/cordoba-airport-odb/cordoba-airport-resumes-commercial-passenger-flights-after-15-years/ Córdoba is definitely an interesting case. It must...

Re: United SFO BCN

US-Ireland is also booming - this year alone you've got multiple new carriers (B6 launching JFK/BOS-DUB, MX applying to the FAA to fly to Ireland, etc), multiple new routes (e.g. DL and EI both launching MSP-DUB, EI launching DEN-DUB, etc), and multiple capacity upgrades (e.g. AA shifting DFW-DUB f...

Re: United SFO BCN

The most interesting thing about this flight is that it is the first scheduled flight ever on an US3 from Spain to the West Coast. West Coast - Spain is still very untapped. Surprised SFO-BCN came before SFO-DUB. According to LAXDUDE1023 on the UA thread, DUB is UA's largest unserved non-US/Mexico/C...

Re: Spain Aviation - 2023

CDT and RMU you can tell are subsidy routes. BRI is the odd one out that probably will be canceled down the line. Bari is for Spanish tourists. Why not in peak season. Domestic North-South routes have boomed over the last few years, specially in summer. Now a lot of people in the Mediterranean coas...

Re: Passport needed for inter-EU flights?

Like many have said, ID checks for boarding vary from country to country. France does it systematically, domestic or intra-EU. Spain doesn’t. Regardless it’s a good idea to have two pieces of ID with you. I once lost my national ID card between security and the gate. I was happy to have my passport...

Re: Effect of bullet trains on China domestic flights

Saying that there are virtually no delays of trans in Europe is a very bold statement. It differs from country to country, but for International travel in the EU planes are much more reliable than trains, except for extreme weather situations. You must be talking Germany/Eastern Europe (where there...