Parent company Wizz Air orders 255 new aircraft from Airbus

Parent company Wizz Air orders 255 new aircraft from Airbus

Wizz Air will receive 102 more aircraft (75 A321neos and 27 A321XLRs), Frontier Airlines will receive 91 A321neos, Volaris will add 39 A321neos to the fleet and the remaining aircraft (21 A321neos and two A321XLRs) will go to JetSmart. In addition, an existing order for 38 A320neos destined for Volaris and JetSmart will be converted … Read more

Airbus forecasts demand for 39,000 new aircraft

Airbus forecasts demand for 39,000 new aircraft

Despite the corona crisis, the European aircraft manufacturer foresees an increasing demand for airline tickets of almost four percent per year. In addition, there is a growing middle class, which has enough money to go on holiday by plane. Asia is the main growth market. According to Airbus, the majority of the new aircraft to … Read more

Historic: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic side by side to New York

Historic: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic side by side to New York

In the past flight number BA1 was used by Concorde, which also flew between Heathrow and JFK. It was later taken over by the A318 flight from London City to JFK, but that route was closed during the corona crisis. Both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will deploy the Airbus A350-1000 to New York on … Read more

VIDEO: Emirates back with Airbus A380 at Schiphol

VIDEO: Emirates back with Airbus A380 at Schiphol

Before the outbreak of the corona crisis, Emirates flew up to three times a day between Dubai and Schiphol, with an A380 being used on two of the daily flights. The pandemic caused the number of flights to be significantly reduced. Lange there was only one passenger flight per day, operated with a Boeing 777-300ER. … Read more

Optimistic Air Belgium is looking for new pilots

Optimistic Air Belgium is looking for new pilots

Air Belgium was not forced to lay off any employees during the corona crisis. The extra pilots that are now being recruited are needed to expand the activities. The company will start a scheduled service from Brussels Airport to Mauritius this Friday (October 15), also the first commercial flight of the A330neo in Belgian service. … Read more

Qantas on ‘Kangaroo Route’ via Darwin to London

Qantas on ‘Kangaroo Route’ via Darwin to London

The strict travel restrictions in Western Australia are preventing the resumption of the scheduled service via Perth for the time being. Qantas was therefore forced to look for an alternative, which was found in Darwin. That city’s airport already served as a springboard to and from Europe for repatriation flights. Initially, travelers will not be … Read more

Condor from Frankfurt to New York from November

Condor from Frankfurt to New York from November

“Since the announcement of the US easing for fully vaccinated travelers, the demand for tickets to the US has doubled,” said CEO Ralf Teckentrup. Condor has already flown to Seattle, where partner Alaska Airlines provides connecting flights to 30 domestic destinations in the US. Canada has also already been flown in: Toronto and Halifax returned … Read more

TUI now has more than a hundred aircraft maintained at Brussels Airport

TUI now has more than a hundred aircraft maintained at Brussels Airport

The travel group previously decided to bring its five airlines (in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and the UK) closer together and to bring certain activities together in one location. In addition, Brussels Airport has been designated as the maintenance hub for all narrow bodies of the five airlines. TUI mainly concerns Boeing 737s. A … Read more

KLM Cityhopper 55 years old: from domestic toddler to European player

KLM Cityhopper 55 years old: from domestic toddler to European player

On Sunday (September 12), KLM will celebrate the 55th anniversary of subsidiary KLM Cityhopper, although the first flights were already operated on August 29, 1966. The Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij (NLM) launched two Fokker F-27 Troopships leased from the Royal Netherlands Air Force with flights to Maastricht via Eindhoven and to Groningen via Enschede. Domestic flights … Read more

TUI fly more often to Greek and Canary Islands in autumn due to high demand

TUI fly more often to Greek and Canary Islands in autumn due to high demand

“We see a continuing demand for sun holidays in the autumn and especially in the autumn holidays. That is why we deployed extra capacity during that period to be able to meet the demand. This expanded range is the result of both the deployment of larger aircraft and the deployment of additional flights,” TUI said … Read more