The 43.8 meter long Boeing 737 MAX 10 can carry up to 230 passengers over a distance of 6,110 kilometers. This makes it the longest variant of the MAX family, but has a shorter flight range: the MAX 8 and 9 can fly 6,570 kilometers, while the MAX 7 has a non-stop range of 7,130 … Read more
Lufthansa had a total of seventeen A340-600s. Last year, the company indicated that seven would leave permanently, and the other ten very likely. Recently, CEO Carsten Spohr said in an interview that he has no plans to hire them again. The twelve now up for sale are the D-AIHB, D-AIHC, D-AIHD, D-AIHE, D-AIHF, D-AIHH, D-AIHK, … Read more
Both the British and Dutch health services report the mutated virus, which is spreading faster than the already known virus. Great Britain is usually an important market for KLM and KLM Cityhopper, which transports many travelers from the country to Schiphol to offer connections to connecting flights. The flight ban came into effect at 6.00 … Read more
The Public Entity Bonaire (OLB) confirms this to our reporter. Reporter Dick Drayer, who is active for – among others – Reismedia and Curaçao.nu, says the OLB has confirmed him the improved color code for Bonaire. Drayer has spoken to several sources for the change of codes on the other islands. With code yellow for … Read more
In the 1920s and 1930s, KLM already pioneered flights to the former Dutch East Indies. The Amsterdam-Batavia route, started in 1929, was the world’s longest scheduled service for many years. The first transatlantic flight followed in 1934, from Amsterdam to Curaçao via Suriname. The long-haul flights operated by KLM made countless stops along the way, … Read more
This is what the fleet page looked like at first: And this is how it looks now: The reorganizing Etihad Airways has a total of ten Airbus A380s. The iconic aircraft, with room for 486 passengers, have been stationary since the beginning of the corona crisis. They were previously the flagship of the Etihad fleet. … Read more
It concerns the routes to Brussels, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Berlin. These cities are less than 700 kilometers from Schiphol and can already be reached by train, but many travelers still go there by plane. Together, these destinations account for 14 percent of all flights that land and depart at the airport. In the … Read more
The merger would create the second largest tour operator in the Netherlands. ACM recently approved the acquisition, but Sunweb is now pulling the plug from the amalgamation of both companies. “We regret making this announcement as Sunweb Group has invested significant time and resources to facilitate this transaction. As the requirements of the purchase and … Read more
It is planned to operate Boeing 737s between Melbourne and Sydney from 1 March 2021. Flights to Brisbane should also come in spring. The Boeing 737 fleet will be expanded to ten units next year. Last summer, Rex Airlines announced that it saw opportunities to compete on routes between major Australian cities with established names … Read more
Eurocontrol considers a recovery in 2026 the most obvious. In this scenario, a corona vaccine will not become widely available until mid-2022. That would mean that air traffic in 2024 will be 92 percent of the 2019 level. A full recovery follows two years later. Eurocontrol’s most positive scenario assumes that the vaccine will be … Read more