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By Richard Maslen
Thomas Cook Airlines UK is part of the Thomas Cook Group and operates over from 20 airports across the UK, carrying 6.7 million passengers to over 50 short-, medium- and long haul airports with over 200 holiday destinations including North America, the Caribbean Sea and India, as well as resorts across Europe.
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By Richard Maslen
The airline alleges that the behaviour of Swiss followed the early 2014 announcement that it had concluded an agreement through which United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier Etihad Airways would acquire a 33.3 per cent stake in its business, subject to regulatory approval, and its rebranding as Etihad Regional.
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By Richard Maslen
The additional flights to Las Vegas between July 28, 2015 and September 1, 2015 will be operating on a 308-seat Airbus A340-600. The additional flights to Las Vegas between September 8, 2015 and October 13, 2015 and all of the additional Orlando flights will be on a 455-seat Boeing 747-400.
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By Richard Maslen
The brand new link will enhance connectivity between Perugia and Germany. Over the past ten years only Ryanair has provided direct flights to the Italian city from the country with a short seasonal summer programme from Dusseldorf Weeze Airport between June and August this year.
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By Richard Maslen
"He's making a list. And checking it twice Gonna find out. Who's naughty and nice!"
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By Poppy Marello
The Yorkshire airport has signed a long term deal with TUI UK and Ireland which will see the travel firm operating Thomson and First Choice holidays from the region.
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By Poppy Marello
Turkish based, SunExpress has announced a new route between London Luton and Izmir on Turkey’s Aegean coast.
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Air Canada, bolstered by a recent agreement with its pilots that clears the way to boost capacity at its leisure affiliate rouge, has decided to halt transfers of 136-seat Airbus A319s to its low-cost subsidiary and will instead mix in larger narrowbodies, an executive said in an interview.
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By Richard Maslen
The new Toronto - Delhi link is an example of a route made possible thanks to the excellent operating economics that modern generation airliners now offer and certainly would not have been able to be served on a sustainable manner using older aircraft types.
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Qatar Airways, which took delivery of its first Airbus A350 XWB this week, could be looking to Singapore for one of its destinations for the new aircraft. A source at Qatar, which has a total of 80 A350-900 and -800s on order, said the launch schedules from Doha to Qatar could soon be followed by Doha-Singapore service, as the aircraft “would be perfect for this route.”
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By Richard Maslen
This decision, which has already been included in the strategic plans of LATAM Airlines Group for the future, will see TAM add between four and six new regional destinations to its network every year. To support its plans it is in the “advanced stages of negotiations” with aircraft manufacturers to acquire 18 aircraft and options for 12 more.
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By Poppy Marello
The airline has announced it will be doubling the number of flights between Berlin and Bucharest from March 30, 2015.
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Tourism links between the Gulf and Tanzania are being strengthened following The first Tanzanian tourism and investment forum, Tanzanian Tourism Conference MENA 2014 in Dubai.
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By Poppy Marello
easyJet has launched services from Aberdeen to Geneva. It is easyJet’s third route from Aberdeen Airport alongside London Gatwick and London Luton.
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By Richard Maslen
Since Etihad Airways commenced daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne in March 2009 the airline has carried more than 900,000 passengers on the route.
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By Poppy Marello
The airline has witnessed significant growth, operating to a total of 260 destinations worldwide, 217 of which are international, and 43 domestic.
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By Richard Maslen
The company’s inventory for its Thomson and all-inclusive First Choice businesses includes holiday packages from Bristol to Cape Verde, Cyprus and Egypt which will see Thomson Airways and its partners offer new links to Sal in Cape Verde, Hurghada in Egypt and Paphos in Cyprus.
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With Southeast Asia seeing a slowdown in route expansion as carriers seek to balance tight yields with rising load factors, the north Asia region is taking up the slack—especially on north Pacific Asia-US routes.
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By Poppy Marello
QantasLink has announced it will start flying to Whyalla next year, on South Australia’s Spencer Gulf coast commencing April 13, 2015.
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By Vincent Chappard
After the inaugural flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London Gatwick Airport to Mauritius on the 28thof April 2014, Thomson Airways - the UK's third largest airline - is now extending its Mauritian connection to the Scandinavian market, with two flights per week. one from Sweden-Stockholm and one from Finland-Helsinki with an additional planned flight from Denmark-Copenhagen for the European Winter season of 2015/16.
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By Richard Maslen
The new service from Lufthansa’s hub in southern Germany will commence from January 1, 2015 and will provide fast and efficient access to the many nearby ski resorts. Whether it’s Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Zillertal, Kitzbühel, SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental or other resorts in the Alps – as long as there is a helipad on site, customers will be able to choose their own destination.
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By Poppy Marello
bmi Regional has flown more than double the amount of charter flights this year in comparison to 2013.
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By Richard Maslen
United Arab Emirates (UAE) national carrier Emirates Airline is to introduce a third daily rotation on its route between Dubai International Airport and Birmingham Airport in the UK. The new flight, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER will commence from August 1, 2015, and opened for reservations earlier today (December 22, 2015).
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By Poppy Marello
The route, which will operate year-round from June 25, 2015, will allow Central New Zealanders to fly directly to Fiji.
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By Richard Maslen
In its documentation filed with the US DOT, Air Busan said it “might in the future offer service with other airplanes from its fleet, adjust its proposed service patterns, and introduce service to other points in the United States, including Hawaii and the US mainland”.
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