The Greek company Lumiwings will operate two regular flights from Arad International Airport to Italy, Money Buzz! reports.
The Arad-Forli and Arad-Perugia routes will be launched on June 4, with departures on Mondays and Fridays.
The ticket price will start from 45 euros, a cost that will include two luggages.
Lumiwings aircrafts used for these flights will have 139 seats, respectively 168 seats.
Arad International Airport has not operated regular flights since 2014.
International Air Carriers Association (IATA) announces the launch of a travel permit in late March 2021.
A digital system for test results and vaccination certificates will be in place to help international travels, Reuters reports.
It is essential that governments start issuing digital vaccination certificates to citizens, which will serve as the basis for the travel permit, IATA said.
The IATA travel permit will put test results for COVID-19 and vaccination certificates in a digital format, which will speed up the check-in process.
This summer will be very important for many airlines which are trying to survive the restrictions imposed to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
IATA represents approximately 290 airlines worldwide, equivalent to 82% of global air traffic.
Ryanair launched its Winter 21/22 schedule, covering some of the most popular destinations for trips taking off from late October.
Ever popular with its customers, Ryanair has launched routes to the likes of sunny Cyprus, Gran Canaria, the Greek islands, Sicily and Malaga for Winter ’21.
Avid skiers who missed out on their trip to the slopes can dust off their skis with popular destinations such as Turin, Milan and Salzburg set to welcome visitors once again next winter.
Also, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from €29.99 for travel from October ’21 – March ’22, available for booking on the Ryanair.com website only until midnight, Sunday 14th Feb 2021.
Smartwings recorded a steep decline in the number of passengers last year due to the unprecedented situation in the aviation industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group carried more than 1.3 million passengers on its regular lines and charter flights under its Smartwings and CSA brands, which was 83.7% fewer than in the previous year.
Other 451 thousand passengers traveled on board Smartwings aircrafts operated on ACMI wet lease agreements with other carriers.
Smartwings operated 13.5 flights last year (-78.4%), with Smartwings nd CSA branded aircraft landing at 263 airports around the world.
The airline operated its flights not only from the Czech Republic but also from France, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Canary Islands.
Smartwings’s fleet includes 47 airplanes.
Aegean Airlines reported net losses after tax of 28.3 million euros in the third quarter of 2020 after profits of 90.2 million euros in the same period last year.
The partial lifting of travel restrictions across Europe as of July allowed the gradual resumption of international flights.
Nevertheless, several countries remained inaccessible, demand was weak due to the pandemic while the lack of coordination on travel protocols weighed on the restart efforts.
During the third quarter of 2020, Aegean operated 49% less flights than in 2019 while passenger traffic was 62% lower than last year.
Load factors fell to 65,7% from 87,7%. Even under these restrictions the company carried 2 mil. passengers in the quarter, flying to 78 international and domestic destinations.
Revenue during the third quarter stood at €155,1 mil. from €512,5 mil. in 2019.
Overall in the Nine-month period revenue reached €342,5 mil. from €1,031 bn in 2019, while passenger traffic reached 4,4 mil. passengers.
Net losses after tax for the Nine-Month period totaled €187,1 mil. from net earnings of €77,1 mil. in the respective period last year.
Shanghai has overtaken London, becoming the world’s most connected city in the air transport field, after the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly affected international travel.
London saw a 67% drop in air transport connectivity, while Chinese cities expanded their connectivity.
Thus, in the ranking of the most connected cities in the world, the first four places are occupied by Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu in China, according to IATA.
Major air hubs, including London, New York and Tokyo, have been hit hard by reduced travel to and from their cities due to pandemic flight restrictions.
IATA says that ”the pandemic has canceled a century of progress” in the field of connectivity between cities.
International Air Transport Association estimates that 46 million jobs supported by air transport are in danger.
The number of passengers carried by airlines will decrease to 1.8 billion this year, from 4.5 billion in 2019, and will partially recover next year to 2.8 billion.
The turnover of the airlines will decrease by over 60%, in 2020, compared to 2019, up to 328 billion dollars.
It is the first time in the last 30 years that the Irish airline has reported losses in the summer season.
Revenue fell by 78% to €1.18bn as traffic fell 80% to 17.1m. With almost zero Q1 traffic, the vast majority of H1 revenue was earned in Q2.
On Monday, Ryanair shares were down 1%, while low-cost airline easyJet and International Airlines Group (owner British Airways) fell by more than 5% after the British government imposed a new national lockdown.
A Finnair menu for business class passengers costs 12.9 euros in the supermarket and consists of beef with teriyaki sauce and rice or arctic trout with risotto.
The idea proved successful when 1.600 menus were sold in a few days at a supermarket located near Finnair’s main hub, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.
The company intends to expand the program by including other supermarkets.
In 2017, Finnair decided to buy LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company operating from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and renamed it Finnair Kitchen.
Finnair Kitchen made about 12.000 meals a day, but that number plummeted after the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted air travel.
This has caused forward bookings to weaken slightly in October, but materially in November & December.
In light of these weaker bookings, and Ryanair’s plan to operate with a 70% load factors, Ryanair has further reduced its winter schedule (Nov – Mar) taking capacity down from 60% to 40% of prior year.
Ryanair expects to maintain up to 65% of its winter route network, but with reduced frequencies.
In addition to the winter closure of bases in Cork, Shannon, and Toulouse, Ryanair has announced significant base aircraft cuts in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Vienna.
With this greatly reduced winter capacity and load factors of approx. 70%, Ryanair now expects full year (FY21) traffic to fall to approx. 38m guests, although this guidance could be further revised downwards.
IATA expects the airlines to report losses of up to $77 billion in the second half of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) restrictions continue to affect global travels.
Since the pandemic broke out, governments have provided $160 billion to airlines through cash injections, secured loans, wage subsidies and tax cuts.
Without additional government assistance, 4.8 million jobs are at risk of being lost in the aviation industry, IATA warned.
”Financially, 2020 will be the worst year in aviation history” Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s DG & CEO said recently. ”By comparison, airlines around the world lost $31 billion in the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. There is no benchmark for the scale of this crisis” he added.
Ryanair now expects its October capacity to fall from 50% to approx. 40% of its October 2019 levels, but expects to maintain a 70%+ load factor at this reduced schedule.
The airline confirmed that these capacity reductions were necessary due to damage caused to forward bookings by continuous changes in EU Government travel restrictions and policies, many of which are introduced at short notice.
In some countries (most notably Ireland), where the Govt have maintained excessive and defective travel restrictions since 1 July, Covid-19 rates have risen in recent weeks to 50 per 100,000 pop. – more than double those of Germany and Italy – where intra-EU air travel was freely permitted since 1 July.
There were 112,998 takeoff and landing operations (TLO) at Sheremetyevo in that period, including 12.778 in July.
The bulk of passenger traffic was served by Aeroflot, Nordwind Airlines, Rossiya, Ikar, Royal Flight and Air France.
The most popular foreign destinations from January through July were Phuket, Bangkok, Yerevan, Paris and Prague. The most popular domestic destinations during that period were St. Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, Krasnodar and Yekaterinburg.
Air traffic has intensified at Sheremetyevo due to the improved epidemiological situation in the regions of Russia, and July air traffic showed an increase of 134% compared to June.
Sheremetyevo International Airport is one of the top 10 hub airports in Europe and the largest Russian airport in terms of passenger and cargo traffic. In 2019, the airport served 49.933.000 passengers, an increase of 8.9% over 2018.