Economy Class & Beyond

Budapest Airport increases connectivity, with further Ryanair flights

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Budapest Airport is gaining extra connectivity, thanks to Ryanair. The airport is gaining extra routes, including : Milan - Daily from 31st March Tirana - Three times a week from 1st April Faro - Twice weekly from 2nd June Frankfurt-Hahn - Twice weekly from 2nd June Trieste - Twice weekly from 2nd June Skiathos - Twice weekly from 3rd June In … [Read more...]

Singapore Air Show Daily Digest – Day 2: Enter Airbus

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Day 2 of the Singapore Air Show has been and gone. Two commercial airplane announcements - one order, and one parts agreement Airbus Airbus finally came out of the traps with an order from Starlux Airlines. STARLUX Airlines of Taiwan has placed a firm order for five A350F freighters and three more A330neo widebody aircraft. The agreement was signed at the Singapore … [Read more...]

Emirates works on its South American Network with a new route to Bogata

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Emirates is planning to launch a new service to Bogota, Colombia... but in a slightly different way than usual. Emirates Boeing 777-300ER - Image, Economy Class and Beyond  The airline is planning to operate the route via the USA - so it will stop at Miami International Airport both ways on its journey to and from Bogota.  It will be the fourth South American … [Read more...]

Breeze Airways to add an additional 10 Airbus A220 aircraft to its fleet

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Breeze Airways continues to expand, with the airline disclosing it is to add a further 10 Airbus A220 aircraft to its fleet. The airline will order 10 additional A220-300 aircraft (the larger variant of the Airbus A220), bringing the airline’s total firm order for the aircraft type to 90 of the type. This order will make Breeze the third largest customer worldwide for … [Read more...]

Singapore Air Show Daily Digest: Day 1 – Boeing and COMAC step forward

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Day 1 of the Singapore Air Show has flown by, so it's time to see who's been attracting orders and have got their celebratory bits of paper out. ATR Aircraft ATR Aircraft kicked off the pre-show with a delivery of an ATR72-600 via Nordic Aviation Captial to Silk Avia of Ubzebistan, making them the first Central Asia ATR operator. In addition, Maldivian Airways has … [Read more...]

Fly on the wings of Love: easyJet becomes the Offical Airline of the Eurovision Song Contest

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It seems easyJet has partnered with the Eurovision Song Contest to become its official airline. So they could be flying the flag, for you. The organisations have signed a multi-year partnership, bringing Europe together to celebrate the world’s largest live music event. easyJet will fly thousands of visitors from across Europe travelling for this year’s contest … [Read more...]

Ground workers strike action affecting Lufthansa across Germany… again.

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It seems the Ver.di Union is still unhappy with Lufthansa, with them calling their ground staff members on strike. Again. Good luck catching a Lufthansa flight tomorrow. It's probably cancelled... - Lufthansa Boeing 747-8i taxiing at Frankfurt Airport - Image, Economy Class and Beyond.  The strike will impact ground staff at Deutsche Lufthansa, Lufthansa Technik, … [Read more...]