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January 20, 2021

Kazakhstan: Fly Arystan plans to add 14 new routes

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 09:30

The Kazakh low-cost airline Fly Arystan carried 1,5 million passengers last year and plans to grow strongly this year. At least 14 additional routes are to be added. The aim is to fly around three million travelers. The fleet is to be expanded by three Airbus A320 aircraft, reports the Russian Aviation Insider portal. The route network currently includes 28 destinations, 14 of which are within Kazakhstan. Since operations began in May 2019, 2,2 million passengers have been transported. More than half of the tickets are said to have been sold for less than 23 dollars (one way).

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El Al: Sun d'Or no longer flies on the Sabbath

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 09:07

Sun d'Or, the leisure division of El Al, will no longer fly on the Sabbath. This is a standardization of the group's behavior, as El Al itself does not fly on the important day in the Jewish faith. Until now, the carrier operated holiday and charter flights on the Sabbath under the Sun d'Or brand. Now, according to local media, the crews have been informed that this practice will be ended and that the entire El Al group will not operate any passenger flights on the Sabbath. However, this measure is unlikely to have primarily "religious reasons", but rather is due to the simple fact that tourists are currently only allowed to enter Israel with special permission and therefore there is no demand. El Al also wanted to fly to Salzburg under the Sun d'Or brand in the 2020 summer flight schedule. However, the corona pandemic put a stop to this, so the connection has not yet been established. According to a spokesman for the carrier, the plans are still in place and the route is expected to be started in summer 2021, provided that the entry and quarantine regulations on both sides are relaxed. The Corona pandemic also led to carriers registered in the Republic of Israel taking a Sabbath break. Israir recently announced that it would no longer fly on Saturdays. El Al never did this anyway - with the exception of the leisure brand Sun d'Or. At the moment, only Arkia flies on the Sabbath. The decisions are obviously primarily financial, as demand is extremely low due to the global crisis.

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Bremen reports 74,2 percent fewer passengers

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 08:34

The corona pandemic is having a clear impact on passenger numbers at Bremen Airport. Last year, the airport recorded a 74,2 percent decline to 594.680 travelers. In 2019, there were 2.308.338 passengers. The number of takeoffs and landings fell by 50,4 percent to 14.661 flight movements. In the freight sector, however, Bremen recorded an increase of 118 percent to 1.151 tons. However, the airport did not really benefit from this, as the majority of cargo volume is transported in the cargo hold of passenger aircraft or in trucks. The bottom line is that this business segment declined by 19,4 percent.

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Norway: Flyr wants to start with a non-transparent sales model

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 08:06

In summer 2021, the Norwegian start-up Flyr plans to launch with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. However, the tariff model appears extremely non-transparent and also raises questions about data protection: the company wants to sell tickets exclusively via an app. The sale of airline tickets is scheduled to start in April 2021. That alone would be a bold approach, but the company's announcement also states that a type of algorithm will be used and prices will be displayed individually. In concrete terms, this means that different prices may be displayed depending on the device and user. How and, in particular, on the basis of which factors the "personalized ticket price" is calculated is not known. It cannot therefore be ruled out that the Flyr app could be a veritable "data octopus". The start-up argues this quite differently, of course, and writes that this is the best way to meet the individual needs of travelers. Behind Flyr is Erik Braathen, who is not unknown in the industry. Together with investors, he wants to launch a new airline. This will initially offer flights within Norway and later also fly to larger cities in Europe. Initially, the company plans to launch with five Boeing 737-800s. Braathen sees market potential for up to 30 aircraft of this type, but not in the short term, but rather in the long term. To a certain extent, the chances will also depend on the continued performance of the badly hit competitor Norwegian Air Shuttle. According to a company statement, Flyr is said to have start-up capital of 60 million euros at its disposal.

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73,9 percent fewer overnight stays in Vienna

guest Author 20 January 2021 07:34

Due to the pandemic, Vienna recorded 2020 million overnight stays in 4,6, 73,9% fewer than in the previous record year of 2019. After strong increases in January and February, all other months of 2020 recorded declines in the high double-digit percentage range, with only 76.000 overnight stays recorded in the lockdown month of December (-95,6%). The hotel industry's net overnight stay revenues are currently fixed for January to November 2020: EUR 231,5 million, representing declines of 74,4%. Vienna's accommodation establishments recorded 2020 overnight stays (-4.590.000%) and 73,9 arrivals (-2.007.000%) in 74,7. With the exception of China, which dropped to 2020th place in the 18 overnight stay ranking, all of the top 10 markets from 2019 are also on the list in 2020, now supplemented by Poland. Half of all overnight stays came from two countries - Austria (1.278.000, -58%) and Germany (1.002.000, -70%), both countries contributing over a million overnight stays to the overall result. Italy (188.000, -78%), Great Britain (139.000, -81%), France (127.000, -75%), the USA (123.000, -88%), Spain (120.000, -82%), Switzerland (117.000, -75%), Poland (109.000, -58%) and Russia (104.000, -78%) complete Vienna's top 10 from last year at some distance. The turnover of the accommodation establishments is currently available for the months January to November 2020. At 231.459.000 euros (-74,4%), Vienna's accommodation establishments were able to generate around three quarters less in this period than in the same period last year. The average occupancy rate of hotel beds fell to 5,8% in December (12/2019: 70,6%), and that of rooms to around 8% (12/2019: around 91%). In total, around 35.000 hotel beds were available in Vienna in December, which was around 32.000 beds (-47,8%) fewer than in December due to the lockdown.

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Summer 2021: This is what Eurowings is planning from Austria

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 07:03

Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings is currently planning to offer flights from Klagenfurt, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Vienna-Schwechat in the 2021 summer flight schedule. The carrier gave Aviation Direct an insight into the current planning status and pointed out that changes could occur due to the unforeseeable further development of the pandemic. "Of course, such an offer is always subject to reservation, especially in times of pandemic, but we want to show our customers that we are still committed to an attractive route network," a Eurowings spokesperson told Aviation Direct. One route each from Graz, Klagenfurt and Linz Eurowings intends to fly from Graz to Palma de Mallorca in the 2021 summer flight schedule. No further scheduled or charter routes are currently planned. The carrier will also fly to the Spanish Mediterranean island from Linz. No further connections are currently planned here either. from to scheduled/charter Graz Palma de Mallorca scheduled Linz Palma de Mallorca scheduled In Carinthia there were hopes that Eurowings could take over the Palma route that Lauda had discontinued. However, according to the route list provided by the carrier, this is not currently planned. From Klagenfurt, the connection to Cologne/Bonn will remain, which is currently on hold due to the pandemic. from to scheduled/charter Klagenfurt Cologne/Bonn scheduled Charter flights from Innsbruck From Innsbruck, Eurowings will operate charter flights for tour operators. The plan is to serve the holiday destinations of Heraklion, Kos, Palma de Mallorca and Lamezia Terme from Tyrol. There are currently no plans to start scheduled flights. Incidentally, competitor Tradeair will be flying with Fokker 100s on behalf of Idealtours this year instead of Avanti Air. from to scheduled/charter

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Air Europa sale: IAG and Globalia agree

Jan Gruber 20 January 2021 01:06

Air Europa owner Globalia and the International Airlines Group have agreed to amend the takeover agreement of November 4, 2019. According to this, IAG will now pay only 500 million euros instead of one billion euros, and only six years after the completion of the transaction. The revised terms of the amendment agreement require that Iberia and the Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales ("SEPI") successfully negotiate the non-financial terms related to SEPI's financial support for Air Europa in 2020. The IAG subsidiary intends to start talks with SEPI on these terms shortly. "Both Iberia and IAG are demonstrating their resilience in the face of the deepest crisis in the history of aviation. Being part of a large group is the best guarantee for overcoming the current market challenges, from which Air Europa will also benefit once the transaction is completed. I am pleased that we have reached an agreement with Globalia to postpone the payment until well into the expected recovery of air traffic after the end of the pandemic and to expect that the transaction will generate significant synergies," said IAG CEO Luis Gallego. Transaction to be completed in the second half of 2021 Globalia and IAG expect that, if all agreed conditions are met, the acquisition can be completed in the second half of 2021. However, the necessary antitrust approval from the EU Commission is still pending. The International Airlines Group also emphasizes in its statement that the takeover is a Class 2 transaction within the meaning of the listing rules.

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