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Right now there are 6543 entries in our database. << back || page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 || next >> 14.12.2008 LOT Polish Airlines (LO/Warsaw) has given up its Warsaw-Stuttgart route but is considering adding Belgrade, Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk to its regional network in spring. germanwings (4U/Cologne/Bonn) has announced additional new summer routes: Berlin Schoenefeld-Dubrovnik: weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on May 3 Berlin Schoenefeld-Pula: 3x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on May 5 Cologne/Bonn-Lourdes/Tarbes: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting between May 18 and June 3 It has given up its routes from Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart to Malta and has temporarily suspended its Cologne/Bonn-Edinburgh route for the winter season. DanubeWings (V5/Bratislava) will add a second ex-Aer Arann (EI/Dublin) ATR 72-200 and is planning to launch scheduled services between Bratislava and Poprad in January. It is reportedly also considering adding summer routes from Poprad to Bologna and Split. Skyways Express (JZ/Stockholm Arlanda) will terminate its Stockholm Arlanda-Trollhattan route on December 19. Cirrus Airlines (C9/Saarbrücken) will give up its recently added Mannheim-Munich route on December 23. Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt International) will give up its Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel-Budapest and Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel-London City routes on December 19 and its Munich-Bratislava route on January 12. Ryanair (FR/Dublin) will resume its routes from Alicante and Girona to Maastricht on March 31. It will also launch twice weekly B737-800 service between Trapani and Malta on February 5. Ryanair will however give up its Bremen-Budapest and Frankfurt Hahn-Budapest routes on January 20 and its London Stansted-Nantes route on March 28 and not resume its seasonal services from Bristol, Gothenburg City, Liverpool, Nottingham and Stockholm Skavsta to Salzburg this winter season. Amsterdam Airlines (WD/Amsterdam) has now launched own charter services out of the Netherlands. Helvetic Airways (2L/Zurich) will resume scheduled services next summer season: Zurich-Brindisi: 2x weekly Fokker 100 service starting on April 5 Zurich-Jerez de la Frontera: 2x weekly Fokker 100 service starting on May 16 Zurich-Ohrid: weekly Fokker 100 service starting on December 24 Zurich-Olbia: weekly Fokker 100 service starting on April 11 Zurich-Skopje: 2x weekly Fokker 100 service starting on December 25 SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK/Copenhagen Kastrup) has proposed to the Estonian government to take majority control of Estonian Air (OV/Tallinn) and wants to increase its stake in the carrier from 49 to 83 percent. It has taken delivery of its first CRJ-900. It will resume twice weekly seasonal B737-800 service between Stockholm Arlanda and Malta on April 2. However, SAS has given up its Stockholm Arlanda-Ornskoldsvik route on December 14 and has temporarily suspended its Copenhagen-Pristina and Copenhagen-Venice Marco Polo routes for the winter season. Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) has publicly announced it has given up takeover talks with SAS Scandinavian Airlines. LTE International Airways (XO/Palma de Mallorca) has been forced to suspend scheduled and charter operations on October 17 because of financial difficulties. It has continued limited ACMI operations on behalf of other carriers until November 15 when it finally suspended all operations with its A320-200 fleet. Flybe. (BE/Exeter) is reportedly interested in bmibaby (WW/Nottingham) and bmi regional (II/Aberdeen) should new bmi majority owner Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) put the carriers up for sale. It has announced new routes for the upcoming summer season: Jersey-Dundee: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 2 and September 19 Jersey-Inverness: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 23 and September 19 Jersey-Manston: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 9 and September 19 London Gatwick-Newquay: 3x daily Dash 8-400 service starting on February 15 Southampton-Dubrovnik: weekly seasonal EMB-195 service between May 3 and October 4 Southampton-Split: weekly seasonal EMB-195 service between May 2 and October 3 It will give up its Norwich base on March 27 and as a result cancel its Norwich-Dublin route. It will continue to serve Norwich from Edinburgh and Manchester. It has already given up its Norwich-Jersey and Norwich-Paris CDG routes. Cimber Air (QI/Sonderborg) has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt Sterling Airlines and is planning to resume limited operations with two B737s that will operate on behalf of Cimber Air on domestic services from Copenhagen to Aalborg and Karup on a wet-lease basis. It is planning to add additional B737s later for services to European destinations. Cimber has launched six times weekly CRJ-200 service from Billund to London Gatwick replacing Sterling on the route. Air Moldova (9U/Chisinau) is supposed to be privatized by the Moldovian government in 2009. Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has not been able to take over the majority of AirUnion routes because of a lack of suitable aircraft. It is unclear how many aircraft have actually been transferred from failed AirUnion carriers Domodedovo Airlines, Kras Air and Samara Airlines but the number is expected to be very small so far including three B757-200s and one B767-200ER. Atlant-Soyuz has leased two ex-XL Airways UK B737-800s. It will launch some former AirUnion routes now and has adopted the 7B carrier code from defunct Kras Air: Krasnoyarsk-Beijing: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 15 Krasnoyarsk-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk-Yakutsk: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on January 5 Krasnoyarsk-Khudzhand: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Krasnoyarsk-Norilsk: 6x weekly Tu-154M service (already launched) Krasnoyarsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 29 Krasnoyarsk-Yuzhno Sakhalinsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 26 Moscow Vnukovo-Athens: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on March 18 Moscow Vnukovo-Blagoveschensk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 22 Moscow Vnukovo-Bukhara: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Dushanbe: 2x daily Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Fergana: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Grodno: 4x weekly EMB-120 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Gyandzha: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Ivanovo: 2x daily EMB-120 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Khabarovsk: 4x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Krasnoyarsk: daily Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Norilsk: weekly Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Omsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Salzburg: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20 Moscow Vnukovo-Samarkand: 2x weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Tashkent: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20 Moscow Vnukovo-Tomsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Yakutsk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21 Samara-Baku: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 24 Samara-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Samara-Yerevan: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 28 It is also planning to resume previous AirUnion services from Moscow Vnukovo to Beijing, Kazan and Tivat. Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo) has been registered in November as a joint venture between Rostekhnologii and the Moscow government. The company is planning to operate with three divisions in Eastern, Central and Western Russia and is supposed to become a major competitor for Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) although exact details of its launch plans are not yet known. The new carrier is expected to be based on or operating in cooperation with Moscow government owned Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) and include some of the assets of failed AirUnion carriers Domodedovo Airlines, Kras Air and Samara Airlines as well as Dalavia that have all suspended operations at the end of September. KMV - Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KV/Mineralnye Vody), Orenburg Airlines (R2/Orenburg), Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg), Saravia (6W/Saratov) and Vladivostok Air (XF/Vladivostok) are also expected to be taken over by the new carrier although no final agreement has been reached yet on funding and the merger of the carriers. The carriers main base will be Moscow Vnukovo with additional main hubs in Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg. UTair (UT/Khanty-Mansiysk) has launched three times weekly B737-500 service from Moscow Vnukovo to Baku on December 9. UTair has started codesharing with Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg) on Rossiya services between St. Petersburg and Ufa. UTair is considering setting up a subsidiary in Ukraine using several ATR aircraft operating domestic services. Icelandair (FI/Reykjavik Keflavik) will combine its seasonal summer service to Bergen with Stavanger this summer season and operate a twice weekly triangle service from Reykjavik Keflavik via Bergen and Stavanger back to Iceland between June 2 and August 30. It will however give up its Reykjavik Keflavik-Orlando Sanford route on May 1. It has already suspended its Reykjavik Keflavik-Glasgow Intl route on December 1. Icelandair has wet-leased a B757-200 to Med-View Airline (Kano) for the Hajj season and another B757-200 to SBA Airlines (S3/Maracaibo). It will also dry-lease a third B757-200 to Yakutia Airlines (R3/Yakutsk). Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Ataturk) will wet-lease three B777-300ERs from Jet Airways (9W/Mumbai) for six months, has announced plans for an order of additional 105 Airbus and/or Boeing aircraft (70 shorthaul and 35 longhaul aircraft) and will continue with its network expansion plan: Istanbul Ataturk-Dakar-Sao Paulo Guarulhos: 2x weekly A340-300 service starting on March 29 Istanbul Ataturk-Lviv: 3x weekly B737-800 service starting on April 20 Istanbul Ataturk-Nairobi Intl: 3x weekly A310-300 service starting on April 6 Istanbul Ataturk-Ufa: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on March 15 It has also announced plans to add Gothenburg Landvetter and Mashad to its network in 2009. THY has started codesharing with its Star Alliance partner United Airlines (UA/Chicago) on a variety of Europe-US and domestic US routes. Futura International Airways (FH/Palma de Mallorca) has lost its air operator certificate on September 22 and plans to resume operations have been put on hold. Its cargo subsidiary FlyAnt (FYA/Vitoria) had continued limited operations using the AOCs of customers Agroar Carga Aérea (GRR/Evora) and Air One (AP/Rome Fiumicino) but has now also suspended all operations. << back || page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 || next >>