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02.01.2012
Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana) has started implementing its restructuring plan and has stored one of its two A320-200s and cancelled its routes from Ljubljana to Banja Luka and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion, from Pristina to Dusseldorf Intl and from Vienna to Frankfurt Intl as of October. Adria has also suspended its routes from Ljubljana to London Gatwick, Paris CDG and Warsaw until March. It has received 69.7 million EUR of additional capital from its shareholders and debtors turning debts into shares to avoid bankruptcy.
Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) has given up its Larnaca-Paris CDG route on September 11 as well as its Athens-Berlin Tegel route on January 8 and will not resume its Athens-Bologna Marconi and Heraklion-London Heathrow routes next summer but has announced plans for new seasonal services from Heraklion and Kerkyra:
Heraklion-Brussels Ntl: 2x weekly seasonal A320-200 service starting on March 28
Heraklion-Munich: 2x weekly seasonal A320-200 service starting on March 28
Kerkyra-Brussels Ntl: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between June 1 and September 30
Aeolian Airlines (AOL/Athens) has launched charter operations with a single MD-83 wet-leased from Sky Wings (ND/Athens). It is considering adding scheduled services at a later stage.
Aer Arann Regional (RE/Dublin) has announced further network cuts including all routes from Galway (to Dublin, Edinburgh, London Luton, London Southend, Lorient, Manchester, Waterford) that have been suspended as of November 1. It has also suspended its routes from Kerry to Manchester and from Waterford to Birmingham and will not resume its seasonal Waterford-Lorient route next summer. It has however won the public service obligation contract for the Dublin-Kerry route previously served by Ryanair (FR/Dublin). As a result, its remaining network still operated under its own brand and not as an Aer Lingus Regional franchise now only includes the following routes:
Dublin-Isle of Man: 2x daily ATR 42-300 service
Dublin-Kerry: 2x daily ATR 42-300 service (launched on November 3)
Isle of Man-London City: 3x daily ATR 42-300 service
Waterford-London Luton: 4x weekly ATR 42-300 service
Waterford-London Southend: 2x daily ATR 42-300 service
Waterford-Manchester: 4x weekly ATR 42-300 service
Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) is expected to be privatized with the Irish government planning to sell its 25% stake in the carrier. Ryanair (FR/Dublin) has also announced that it would be willing to sell its 29.8% stake in the carrier. Etihad Airways (EY/Abu Dhabi Intl) has been named as a potential investor. It will introduce new routes in 2012:
Cork-Brussels Ntl: 3x weekly A320-200 service starting on March 26
Dublin-Stockholm Arlanda: 4x weekly A320-200 service starting on March 25
Dublin-Verona: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on March 28
Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) has announced plans to acquire 30 A320neos and is currently awaiting board approval. It also is the likely recipient of 35 MS-21-300s and 15 MS-21-200s now firmly ordered by Rostekhnologii with deliveries scheduled between 2017 and 2022. Aeroflot has given up its close cooperation with former subsidiary Nordavia (5N/Arkhangelsk) by the end of October and now operates all of its services from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Anapa, Astrakhan, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Surgut, Ufa and Volgograd with its own aircraft. Aeroflot however still codeshares on Nordavia’s own routes from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Naryan-Mar, Norilsk and Syktyvkar. It has also introduced its own new routes:
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Alicante: daily A320-200 service starting on June 1
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Ashgabat: 5x weekly A319-100 service starting on February 1
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Bologna Marconi: daily A320-200 service starting on June 1
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Dnepropetrovsk: daily SSJ 100-95 service starting on March 25
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Donetsk: daily SSJ 100-95 service starting on March 25
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Guangzhou: 3x weekly B767-300ER service starting on March 25
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Krakow: 4x weekly SSJ 100-95 service starting on March 25
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Nizhnekamsk: daily SSJ 100-95 service starting on March 25
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Odessa: daily SSJ 100-95 service starting on June 1
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Orenburg: daily SSJ 100-95 service starting on March 26
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Samarkand: 6x weekly A320-200 service starting on February 1
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Stuttgart: daily A319-100 service starting on April 27
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Tomsk: daily A320-200 service starting on June 2
Aeroflot and Skyteam partner Delta Air Lines (DL/Atlanta) have finally started codesharing last month after receiving approval some years ago. Aeroflot’s deal with Rostekhnologii to transfer control of its airline subsidiaries to Aeroflot has now finally been completed and Aeroflot now owns 100% of Orenair (R2/Orenburg), 75% of Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg), 51% of Saravia (6W/Saratov), 100% of SAT Airlines (Russia) (HZ/Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), 52% of Vladivostok Air (XF/Vladivostok). It has announced plans to rebrand at least some of the airlines and to replace their remaining old generation Russian aircraft by A320 family or SSJ 100 aircraft.
Aero Rent (PC/Moscow Vnukovo) as well as Airstars (PL/Moscow Domodedovo), Aviaenergo (7U/Moscow Sheremetyevo), Avial NV (NVI/Moscow Domodedovo), Avis-Amur (Khabarovsk), Dauria (Chita), Lukiaviatrans (LKV/Pskov), Novosibirsk Air Enterprise (NBE/Novosibirsk), Rusair (CGI/Moscow Sheremetyevo), Ryazanaviatrans (RYZ/Ryazan), Ulyanovsk Higher Aviation School (UHS/Ulyanovsk) and Yak Service (AKY/Moscow Vnukovo) have all had their operating licenses withdrawn in the second half of 2011 by the Russian civil aviation authorities as a result of a lack of financial or safety issues as part of a government crackdown on what it considered unsafe or financially unstable airlines. The most prominent victims of these efforts were KMV - Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KV/Mineralnye Vody) and South East Airlines (N2/Makhachkala). Some smaller operators not mentioned in the list above also have lost their air operator certificates.
Aerosvit Airlines (VV/Kiev Borispol) has added a ninth ex-British Airways (BA/London Heathrow) B737-500 to its fleet. It has also wet-leased an ATR 72-200 from sister carrier Cimber Sterling (QI/Sonderborg) for its Kiev Borispol-Vilnius route. It has announced new services from its growing Kiev Borispol hub:
Kiev Borispol-Adler/Sochi: 3x weekly B737 service starting on April 23
Kiev Borispol-Ekaterinburg: up to 5x weekly EMB-190 service starting on April 27 (operated by Dniproavia (Z6/Dnepropetrovsk))
Kiev Borispol-Mineralnye Vody: 3x weekly seasonal B737 service between June 4 and September 10
Kiev Borispol-Murmansk: 2x weekly seasonal EMB-190 service between May 25 and September 11 (operated by Dniproavia)
Kiev Borispol-Rostov: 3x weekly ERJ-145 service starting on June 2 (operated by Dniproavia)
Kiev Borispol-Tyumen: 2x weekly seasonal EMB-190 service between May 20 and September 10 (operated by Dniproavia)
Kiev Borispol-Ufa: 4x weekly B737/EMB-190 service starting on May 25 (partially operated by Dniproavia)
Lvov-Naples: weekly B737 service resuming on March 31 (after runway repairs)
Odessa-Berlin Tegel: 4x weekly EMB-190 service starting on March 25 (operated by Dniproavia)
Odessa-Moscow Sheremetyevo: 4x weekly B737 service resuming on March 26 (in addition to daily service to Vnukovo)
Aerosvit has given up its routes from Odessa to Milan Malpensa. It has not launched its previously announced Kiev Borispol-Hong Kong service. Aerosvit has reached a codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Atatürk) covering all routes served by both carriers between Istanbul Atatürk and Ukraine.
Aigle Azur (ZI/Paris Orly) has wet-leased an ATR 72-200F freighter from Swiftair (7J/Madrid) to launch daily cargo services between Marseilles and Algiers. It has extended its twice weekly A320-200 service from Paris Orly to Bamako to Kayes as of November offering the destination in Mali as the only European carrier. Aigle Azur also has traffic rights for domestic passengers between Bamako and Kayes. Hainan Airlines (HU/Haikou) is reportedly interested in taking a stake in Aigle Azur.
Air A!ps (A6/Innsbruck) has added a third ex-Sun-Air (EZ/Billund) Do328-110.
Air Atlanta Icelandic (CC/Reykjavik Keflavik) has added two ex-JAL - Japan Airlines (JL/Tokyo Haneda) B747-400s which it has wet-leased to Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/Dhaka) and Saudi Arabian Airlines (SV/Jeddah).
Air Baltic (BT/Riga) is under full control of the Latvian government again after it has taken over the 47% stake from Baltijas Aviacijas Sistemas. It had previously been forced to file for bankruptcy protection but has continued operations. It plans to significantly reduce its fleet and concentrate on just Dash 8-400s and either A320 or B737NG aircraft as part of a fleet modernization program. Up to 50% of its staff is expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring plan currently being finalized:
It has given up its Vilnius-Tallinn route by the end of October, the last point to point route operated by Air Baltic. It will now just concentrate on its Riga hub. From Riga it has terminated its routes to Almaty, Belgrade, Kuopio, Madrid, Tromsø, Visby and Yerevan. It will also give up its Riga-Rovaniemi route on March 19 and not operate to Athens during the winter season. Air Baltic will also not resume its routes to Amman Queen Alia, Beirut and Dushanbe next summer.
Air Berlin (AB/Berlin Tegel) has received an major investment from Etihad Airways (EY/Abu Dhabi Intl) which is planning to increase its stake in Air Berlin from 2.99% to 29.21% and will enter into a an extensive cooperation agreement with Air Berlin that includes codeshare services from Germany and Switzerland to Abu Dhabi Intl and beyond. Air Berlin is introducing some new routes:
Berlin Tegel-Abu Dhabi Intl: 4x weekly A330-200 service starting on January 15 (replacing route to Dubai)
Berlin Tegel-Gdansk: 2x daily Dash 8-400 service resuming on May 1 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (HE/Dortmund))
Berlin Tegel-Los Angeles: 3x weekly A330-200 service starting on May 11
Cologne/Bonn-Heringsdorf: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service starting on May 5 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter)
Dusseldorf Intl-Las Vegas McCarran: 2x weekly A330-200 service starting on May 10
Frankfurt Intl-Heringsdorf: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service starting on May 26 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter)
Frankfurt Intl-Jersey-Guernsey-Frankfurt Intl: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 between April 28 and September 22 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter)
Friedrichshafen-Ibiza: weekly seasonal B737-700 service starting on May 12
Hanover-Arvidsjaur: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service has resumed on November 28
Leipzig/Halle-Split: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 5 and October 6 (operated by LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter)
Zurich-Kerkyra-Araxos-Zurich: weekly seasonal A302-200 service between July 10 and September 18 (operated by Belair Airlines (4T/Zurich), adding Araxos as a new destination)
Air Berlin has announced a major restructuring program that includes the cancellation of a wide range of routes and a cut of its total number of aircraft from 170 to 152. It has already terminated its routes from Amsterdam to Palma de Mallorca, from Berlin Tegel to Jerez de la Frontera and Klagenfurt, from Cologne/Bonn to Casablanca, Nador, Tangiers, Tunis and Valencia, from Dusseldorf Intl to Bilbao, Klagenfurt and Pristina, from Erfurt to Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Nuremberg, Rhodes, Tenerife Sur and Thessaloniki, from Frankfurt Intl to Naples, from Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel to Frankfurt Intl, Klagenfurt, Naples and Pristina, from Hanover to London Gatwick and Zurich, from Munich to Cairo, from Münster/Osnabrück to Catania, Faro, Lanzarote, London Stansted, Malaga, Olbia, Rijeka, Vienna and Westerland, from Paderborn to London Stansted and Rhodes and from Palma de Mallorca to Murcia by the end of October. Air Berlin will terminate its weekly Dusseldorf Intl-Dubai route by March 8 as a result of its new partnership with Etihad. It has also temporarily suspended its routes from Basle/Mulhouse to Palma de Mallorca, from Berlin Tegel to Naples, from Cologne/Bonn to Naples and Palermo, from Erfurt to Palma de Mallorca, from Frankfurt Intl to Alicante, from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to Palma de Mallorca, from Munich to Alicante, from Nuremberg to Malta and from Zurich to Alicante and Malaga for the winter season. Air Berlin and its minority shareholder Pegasus Airlines (PC/Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen) have entered into a bilateral codeshare agreement for services between Germany and Turkey and some domestic flights in Turkey. It has also entered into additional codeshare agreements with more oneworld partners by adding new partnerships with Malev (MA/Budapest) and Royal Jordanian (RJ/Amman Queen Alia).
Air Berlin Turkey (/Antalya) has launched operations on November 1 with two B737-800s operated by Izair (4I/Izmir). The carrier is a joint venture between Air Berlin (AB/Berlin Tegel) and Pegasus Airlines (PC/Istanbul Atatürk) and will initially concentrate on services from Antalya to Germany. It is expected to operate five to six aircraft next summer. Air Berlin Turkey currently operates the following routes:
Antalya-Berlin Tegel: 4x weekly B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Dusseldorf Intl: daily B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Frankfurt Intl: 2x weekly B737-800 service
Antalya-Leipzig/Halle: 3x weekly B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Munich: 3x weekly B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Nuremberg: weekly B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Stuttgart: weekly B737-800 service (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
It will add more routes in spring:
Antalya-Bremen: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 4 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Cologne/Bonn: 3x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 4 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Dresden: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 2 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Erfurt: 4x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 30 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Friedrichshafen: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on May 5 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 2 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Hanover: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 4 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Münster/Osnabrück: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 2 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Paderborn: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on March 3 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Antalya-Rostock: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on May 4 (replacing Pegasus Airlines)
Air Bright (/Sofia) has launched own cargo operations with an An-26 wet-leased from RAF-Avia (MTL/Riga) in October.
Air Caraïbes Atlantique (CAJ/Paris Orly) will launch three times weekly A330-200/-300 service from Paris Orly to Santo Domingo Las Americas via Port au Prince on March 25. Its Paris Orly-St. Maarten services will continue to operate twice weekly non-stop.
Air Dolomiti (EN/Verona) has launched twice daily EMB-190 service from Milan Orio al Serio to Frankfurt Intl on December 31 using an EMB-190 operated by Augsburg Airways (IQ/Munich). It will receive five additional EMB-195s ordered by parent Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl).
Air Europa (UX/Palma de Mallorca) and its Skyteam partner Delta Air Lines (DL/Atlanta) have started codesharing on routes between the US and Spain as well as some selected connections from both countries. It has delayed the launch of its proposed twice daily Madrid-Geneva service from November 1 to April 27. It will terminate its Madrid-Miami route on January 8 and temporarily suspend its Madrid-New York JFK route until March 29. It has also given up its routes from Valencia to Menorca and Tenerife Sur. Air Europa plans to add two more A330-200s in 2012 to replace its two B767-300ERs.
Air Finland (OF/Helsinki) has introduced new leisure services from its Helsinki base:
Helsinki-Funchal: weekly seasonal B757-200 service between February 27 and April 23
Helsinki-Gazipasa: weekly seasonal B757-200 service starting on April 4
Air France (AF/Paris CDG) and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL/Amsterdam) have placed a joint order for 25 A350-900s and 25 B787-9s and secured options for 35 A350s and 25 B787s. The first B787-9s are expected to be delivered to KLM in 2016 and will first replace its MD-11 fleet while the first A350-900 is expected to be delivered to Air France in 2018 first replacing its A340-300 fleet. Both carriers are expected to operate both aircraft types later. Air France has announced two additional new regional bases in Nice and Toulouse and several other new routes:
Marseilles-Barcelona: 2x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on March 25
Marseilles-Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel: 4x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on March 25
Marseilles-Venice Marco Polo: 5x weekly A319-100 service starting on March 25
Nice-Athens: 3x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 3
Nice-Barcelona: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 5
Nice-Istanbul Atatürk: 3x weekly A320-200 service starting on April 5
Nice-Naples: 2x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 9
Nice-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: 3x weekly A320-200 service starting on April 4
Nice-Venice Marco Polo: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 3
Paris CDG-Amman Queen Alia-Damascus: 3x weekly A320-200 service has started on October 31 (replacing non-stops)
Paris CDG-Ho Chi Minh City-Phnom Penh: 3x weekly B777-300ER service starting on March 27 (replacing routing via Bangkok Suvarnabhumi)
Paris CDG-Wuhan: 3x weekly B777-200ER service starting on April 11
Toulouse-Athens: 4x weekly A320-200 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Berlin Tegel: 4x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1 (will move to Berlin Brandenburg International on June 3)
Toulouse-Brussels Ntl: 5x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Casablanca: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 2
Toulouse-Geneva: weekdaily A319-100 service starting on April 2
Toulouse-Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel: 5x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 2
Toulouse-Istanbul Atatürk: 3x weekly A320-200 service starting on April 3
Toulouse-Malaga: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 3
Toulouse-Malta: 2x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Marrakech: 2x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Naples: 2x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Prague: 5x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Seville: 4x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Tunis: 4x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Venice Marco Polo: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on April 1
Toulouse-Vienna: 4x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on April 1
It has terminated its Paris CDG-Milan Malpensa services on October 30 in favour of additional daily flights to Milan Linate which it now serves six times daily. On the same date, it has also terminated its Lyon-Florence and Toulouse-Dusseldorf Intl routes. Air France will no longer operate from Paris CDG to Abu Dhabi and New York Newark as of March 24 when it will also transfer its Paris CDG-Seattle/Tacoma route to Skyteam partner Delta Air Lines (DL/Atlanta). Air France will reportedly become a minority shareholder in Air Côte d’Ivoire (Abidjan) that is expected to launch operations in 2012 and replace defunct national carrier Air Ivoire.
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