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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 >> 20.06.2009 Lufthansa Cargo (LH/Frankfurt International) has temporarily parked two additional MD-11F freighters to further cut its capacity following a worldwide slowdown in cargo demand. It is expecting to only use 13 of its 19 MD-11F freighters next winter season. Lufthansa Cargo will move its stops for flights to East Asia from Astana to Krasnoyarsk as of June 1. In other news, it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Astral Aviation (8V/Nairobi Intl) that will provide connection services from Nairobi to Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Lufthansa Cargo has wet-leased an A300B4-100F from ACT Airlines (9T/Istanbul Ataturk) for its Frankfurt Intl-Istanbul Ataturk services. Lufthansa CityLine (CL/Cologne/Bonn) has been allocated 16 EMB-190s and four EMB-195s from an order made by parent Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl). It will start taking delivery of the aircraft later this year to replace ARJ-85s and CRJ-200s. Luxair (LG/Luxembourg) has not finalized its previously announced order for a single B737-800. Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) will increase its stake in Luxair to 20% according to statements from the Luxembourg transport ministry. Luxair has launched new seasonal services: Luxembourg-Ajaccio: weekly seasonal ERJ-145 service between May 30 and September 26 Metz/Nancy-Ajaccio: weekly seasonal ERJ-145 service between May 30 and September 26 Malev (MA/Budapest) will receive another 10 million EUR in funding from its Russian shareholder Vnesheconombank (VEB) as part of its current restructuring plan. Aeroflot has recently advised VEB to put its stake in Malev up for sale. Malev has signed a letter of intent with Sukhoi for an order of 30 SSJ100s. Malev has now taken delivery of two additional ex-SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK/Copenhagen Kastrup) Dash 8-400s and will shortly add a fourth aircraft of the type. It will however phase out its remaining five Fokker 70s later this summer. It has introduced two new routes to its network: Budapest-Amman Queen Alia: 2x weekly B737-600 service has started on May 5 Budapest-St. Petersburg: 2x weekly B737-600 service has started on March 29 Budapest-Uzhgorod: 2x weekly EMB-120 service has started on June 15 operated by Budapest Aircraft Services (BPS/Budapest) It has already given up its Budapest-Ekaterinburg route on May 13 and will pull out of Dublin, Geneva, Ljubljana, Podgorica and Venice Marco Polo by October 25. Manx2 (NM/Isle of Man) will launch twice daily Blackpool-Belfast Intl non-stop service on July 6. Martinair (MP/Amsterdam) will give up its Amsterdam-Miami route on October 24. It will however resume three times weekly B767-300ER service from Amsterdam to Orlando Intl on October 26 and has also announced plans to resume seasonal services to Mombasa and Zanzibar. Because of a drop in cargo demand Martinair has temporarily stored two B747-400Fs and is expected to put its remaining two other B747-400Fs into storage as well because of the drop in cargo demand. It will temporarily wet-lease two B747-400F freighters from parent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL/Amsterdam) instead. MAT Macedonian Airlines (IN/Skopje) has been forced to at least temporarily suspend operations after its single B737-500 has been sent to Belgrade for maintenance and the Macedonian civil aviation authority requested additional maintenance work before the aircraft can return back to service. Its single CRJ-900 has been returned to Bombardier earlier this year. Jat Airways (JU/Belgrade) has reportedly offered to swap debt by MAT into a stake in the Macedonian carrier later this year. MCA Airlines (MCA/Stockholm Arlanda) has acquired Air Express Sweden (AEQ/Stockholm Arlanda) and has rebranded it as MCA Airlines. MCA did not previously have an own air operator certificate and has been using a MD-83 chartered from Sky Wings (GSW/Athens) that has recently been replaced by two MD-83s wet-leased from Dubrovnik Airline (DBK/Dubrovnik). It will continue to use Dubrovnik Airline MD-80s alongside the only remaining Air Express Fokker 100 (it has recently returned its second aircraft to the lessor) and has now also wet-leased an A320-200 from SmartLynx (6Y/Riga). MCA Airlines will continue to operate two ex-Air Express Saab 2000s on behalf of Blue 1 (KF/Helsinki) for the remainder of the summer timetable and is planning to phase out the two aircraft when the contract with Blue 1 expires. It has launched additional new routes: Gothenburg Landvetter-Beirut: 2x weekly MD-83 service starting on June 15 Gothenburg Landvetter-Erbil: 2x weekly MD-83 service starting on June 16 Gothenburg Landvetter-Malaga: weekly MD-83 service starting on June 23 Gothenburg Landvetter-Sulaymaniyah: weekly MD-83 service starting on June 29 Malmö-Erbil: 3x weekly MD-83 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Athens: 3x weekly Fokker 100 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Baghdad: 2x weekly MD-83 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Beirut: 2x weekly MD-83 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Larnaca: weekly MD-83 service has started on April 5 Stockholm Arlanda-Sulaymaniyah: 2x weekly MD-83 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Thessaloniki: 2x weekly Fokker 100 service (already launched) Stockholm Arlanda-Thessaloniki-Athens: weekly Fokker 100 service (already launched) Medallion Air (MDP/Bucharest Baneasa) has launched charter and ACMI operations with a single ex-Aerorepublica (P5/Bogota) MD-83. Meridiana (IG/Olbia) will resume four times weekly seasonal A319-100 service from Florence to Palermo between June 2 and September 2. It has not suspended its public service obligation routes from Catania, Palermo and Trapani to Lampedusa and Pantelleria and still wet-leased three ATR 42-300s for these services and other regional flights out of Cagliari. Meridiana has however terminated its Verona-Naples route at the end of March and will also pull out of the Naples-Venice Marco Polo route on September 30. It will return one of its four A319-100s to the lessor after the summer season. It has entered into a codeshare agreement with Blu Express (BV/Rome Fiumicino) and is now selling Blu Express services from Rome Fiumicino to Lamezia Terme, Nice and Turin while Blu Express is selling Meridiana flights from Rome Fiumicino to Cagliari, Olbia and Verona. Meridiana and Windjet (IV/Catania) have also extended their codeshare agreement to include additional routes such as Catania-Turin, Catania-Verona, Rome Fiumicino-Catania and Rome Fiumicino-Palermo. Mint Airways (MIC/Madrid Barajas) has started charter and ACMI operations with a single ex-Fly Globespan (Y2/Edinburgh) B757-200. Monarch Airlines (ZB/London Luton) has wet-leased a B757-200 from Air Finland (OF/Helsinki). It will also add another ex-easyJet (U2/London Luton) A321-200. Montenegro Airlines (YM/Podgorica) has taken delivery of its second EMB-195 and has amended the order for a third aircraft of the same type to an EMB-175. Besides Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana), El Al Israel Airlines (LY/Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) and Greek shipping company Restis have also expressed its interest in acquiring the 30% stake in Montenegro Airlines that the government of Montenegro has put up for sale. It has announced new seasonal routes from Tivat: Tivat-Copenhagen: weekly Fokker 100 service between June 30 and September 8 Tivat-Dusseldorf Intl: 2x weekly Fokker 100 service between June 22 and September 10 Tivat-Skopje: 4x weekly Fokker 100 service between June 27 and September 13 Tivat-Zurich: daily Fokker 100 service between June 19 and September 13 Moskovia Airlines (3R/Moscow Zhukovsky) has taken delivery of a first ex-Sterling Airlines B737-700. Motor Sich Airlines (M9/Zaporozhye) has been banned from European Union airspace after being listed on the latest carrier blacklist published by the EU. MyAir (8I/Milan Orio al Serio) has announced more network changes and will add two ex-Clickair (XG/Barcelona) A320-200s: Brindisi-Munich: weekly CRJ-900 service starting on June 7 Brindisi-Turin: 4x weekly CRJ-900 service starting on June 15 Brindisi-Vienna: 3x weekly CRJ-900 service has started on June 1 Foggia-Geneva: weekly Saab 2000 service has started on March 29 (operated by Darwin Airline (0D/Lugano)) Foggia-Milan Orio al Serio: 4x weekly Saab 2000 service starting on June 15 (operated by Darwin Airline) Foggia-Turin: 4x weekly Saab 2000 service (already launched) (operated by Darwin Airline) Venice Marco Polo-Sofia: 4x weekly CRJ-900 service resuming on June 8 It has however given up its Venice Marco Polo-Bari-Athens flights while it continues to offer non-stop services on both legs. It has also terminated its Bologna Marconi-Bucharest Otopeni, Foggia-Rome Fiumicino and Milan Orio al Serio-Brindisi services. It had temporarily operated a Foggia-Bologna Marconi service with Darwin Saab 2000 for 17 days in April until given up the route again. Neos (NO/Milan Malpensa) has wet-leased one of its B767-300ERs to Air Algérie (AH/Algiers). New Axis Airways (9X/Marseilles) has added two leased ex-Futura Intl Airways B737-800 to its fleet. Nextjet (2N/Stockholm Arlanda) has given up its Stockholm Arlanda-Kramfors route because of a lack of demand. This was the only scheduled service to the city. Niki (HG/Vienna) has leased an A320-200 from its partner Air Berlin (AB/Berlin Tegel) and has taken delivery of its first EMB-190 in mid-May. 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