Estonian Air and Brussels Airlines signed a codeshare agreement under which SN’s code will be placed on Estonian’s thrice-weekly 737-500 Tallinn–Brussels service from Oct. 31. Scandinavian Airlines will launch daily Oslo Gardermoen–Newark service March 27 onboard a three-class A330-300 (Business Class, Economy Extra and Economy) and five-times-weekly Copenhagen–Shanghai Pudong Oct. 31 aboard a three-class A340-300.
Ryanair announced Wednesday it is moving ahead with its threat to close its base at Marseille and will move four 737-800s to “competitor” airports in Spain, Italy and Lithuania from Jan. 11, 2011, following the conclusion of legal proceedings by French authorities over taxes and social insurance contributions of its MRS flight crew.
Bahrain Airport Services Aircraft Engineering Training Centre (BAETC) has appointed international services company Serco, to improve training policy and procedures, facilities, increase performance and install best-practice to BAETC.
United Airlines on Tuesday filed an application with the US Dept. of Transportation for the authority to start daily Los Angeles-Shanghai Pudong service on May 20, 2011. In addition, UA merger partner Continental Airlines applied to place its code on the flights, which will be operated with 777s in a three-class configuration. UA currently serves PVG daily from Chicago O'Hare and San Francisco. CO serves PVG daily from Newark.
Sydney Airport is backing AirAsia X in its vocal campaign to be allowed to fly to Sydney. The carrier has painted the side of one of its A330s with the slogan "Liberate Sydney-End the Monopoly" to promote the issue but has yet to receive approval from the Malaysian government.
Sydney Airport is backing AirAsia X in its vocal campaign to be allowed to fly to Sydney. The carrier has painted the side of one of its A330s with the slogan "Liberate Sydney-End the Monopoly" to promote the issue but has yet to receive approval from the Malaysian government.
