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January 21, 2021

Laudamotion: Court overturns clause on “family rip-off”

Jan Gruber 21 January 2021 10:55

Laudamotion suffered another defeat in the first instance before the Korneuburg Regional Court: The court overturned a total of seven clauses relating to paid seat reservations. However, the ruling is more of a symbolic one, as flight operations have since been suspended and the licenses returned. The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) took Laudamotion GmbH to court again on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Among other things, a clause relating to fees for seat reservations for family bookings was challenged, but also Laudamotion's ability to change assigned seats. The Korneuburg Regional Court (LG) found all of the clauses in question to be inadmissible. The ruling is not yet final. One clause provides for a paid seat reservation for adults travelling with a child under the age of 12. Since, according to Laudamotion's terms and conditions, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult and sit next to them, this additional reservation fee is payable in any case. The Korneuburg Regional Court considers this regulation inadmissible. A separate fee is required for a service that must be used and that is a contractual obligation of Laudamotion to provide ancillary services. The clause is grossly discriminatory because passengers with children incur higher costs due to this mandatory seat reservation. The actual cost of a seat reservation for family bookings remains unclear. The company stated this as 4 euros in its general terms and conditions and XNUMX euros in a fee table. "It is incomprehensible that Laudamotion charges extra money when parents sit next to their children during the flight," criticizes Beate Gelbmann, head of the complaints department at the VKI. "It is gratifying that

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Hotelplan ends “worst year” in its history

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 10:28

As was the case for many, last year was not particularly good for Hotelplan. The Swiss travel company experienced the worst year in its almost 86-year history. In figures: Migros' travel subsidiary achieved net sales of 732 million Swiss francs (minus 38,4 percent). As if that weren't enough, the company has also announced that it will close 75 of its 86 branches in Switzerland by the end of February. This was reported by Blick. The reason for the closures is the home office requirement. And the fact that there is simply not much going on in the travel industry. But: competitors Tui and Kuoni's branches will remain open until further notice. In order to continue to stay in personal contact with customers, the tour operator has submitted eleven so-called hub branches. These are: Genève Balexert, Bulle, Lugano, Thun Oberland, Schönbühl, Buchs AG, Steinhausen, Glattzentrum in Wallisellen ZH, Abtwil as well as Tourisme Pour Tous Sion and Signature Voyages Lausanne.

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LOT starts with the terminations

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 09:55

The Polish airline LOT can breathe a sigh of relief: After the EU gave the green light, the first state aid is flowing to the airline in distress. But the price for this is the workforce. Because one of the conditions for state support is cost reductions. Otherwise, not a cent of the total of 650 million euros that were waved through by the EU Commission at the end of the year will be paid. Up to 300 employees are now feeling the impact. LOT says that this is how many jobs it has to cut. This is necessary in order to adapt to the new reality of the corona pandemic, reports the aviation magazine Airliners. Employee representatives have also already agreed. In the first six months of the year, 150 employees will have to go, and another 150 older workers are to leave over the next two years. Like other airlines, LOT has also been hit hard by the corona pandemic. The company recently announced that it expects two million passengers for the current year. In 2019, it had carried more than 10 million passengers.

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Iran Air: 2.000 employees have to go

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 09:20

The situation at Iran Air appears to be serious. The carrier will have to lay off around 2.000 of its 11.000 employees over the next four months. Financial worries are nothing new for the airline. Even before the current crisis, the airline had accumulated a huge mountain of debt. The creditors are primarily banks, reports the aviation portal CH-Aviation. This is forcing management to pull the ripcord and unleash this wave of layoffs. This is the only way to prevent insolvency. In addition, the company has also begun to tie employees to the company for just one year, rather than the usual five years. This measure is apparently intended to put the carrier's cost structure to the test every year. Iran Air is currently only flying around the world with 18 of 46 aircraft.

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Smartwings: The decrease in the number of passengers is 81,5 percent

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 08:45

The Prague-based airline Smartwings Group, which also includes Czech Airlines (CSA), carried only 2020 million passengers in 1,8 - 81,5 percent fewer than the year before. Revenues fell by 90 percent, reports the Kurier. The reason is obvious. The Corona crisis has colored almost all of last year's figures dark red. As a result, the company also had to cut back on its workforce. Around 600 employees - a quarter of all employees - had to vacate their jobs. The Smartwings Group includes a total of five airlines: Smartwings, Czech Airlines, Smartwings Slovakia, Smartwings Poland and Smartwings Hungary. Most passengers - more than 1,3 million - were carried in 2020 under the Smartwings and Czech Airlines brands.

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Easyjet celebrates its comeback in Dortmund

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 08:10

After the British airline canceled all flights from Dortmund Airport due to the corona pandemic, it will resume the connection to London-Luton for the summer flight schedule 2021. In April and May, passengers can use the connection on Fridays and Sundays. A third round is planned for June. The flights can already be booked now. “The return of the Easyjet is a very good signal for Dortmund Airport and all passengers who have used the connection for years. It shows that the airline - despite the difficult situation - has confidence in the location and will soon build on old successes in Dortmund ”, says Guido Miletic, Head of Airport Services and Marketing.

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IAG only pays half for Air Europa

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 07:40

The management of the International Airlines Group is rubbing its hands together. Because it is getting Air Europa at a bargain price. Instead of paying a billion euros for the Spanish airline as originally agreed, it is paying only half that. And in installments spread over six years. Nobody could have guessed that the world would plunge into such a crisis. Not even the Air Europa managers when they sat confidently at the negotiating table in 2019 and talked about selling the airline. At that time, the purchase price was a billion euros - a lot of money. But today the situation is completely different. Since air traffic came to a standstill for months and is only slowly starting up again, the sellers have practically no arguments left to put forward. Quite the opposite. They seem happy that the holding company is still interested in taking over the carrier. The deal is expected to be completed in the second half of the year, reports Aero. Approval from Brussels is still pending.

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Brussels agreed with a new ground handler

Granite Pireci 21 January 2021 07:05

Brussels Airlines welcomes a new partner: Alyzia is taking over ground handling at Brussels Airport. Since June last year, the AUA sister company has been looking for a new ground handler. The partner at the time, Swisssport Belgium, could not withstand the financial pressure and had to file for bankruptcy. The tendering process then started, which the French company ultimately won. "We took several months to find the best ground handler for us. Alyzia serves over 80 airlines at eight French airports and has met all of our requirements," the press release states. The contract is to run until March 31, 2024. This is to begin on April 1 - until then, Aviapartner will handle ground handling.

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Klagenfurt: AUA employees refused to move to the airport

Jan Gruber 21 January 2021 07:03

Klagenfurt Airport must look for new staff for ground handling, because the 18 AUA employees who were supposed to transfer to the airport subsidiary Avisafe as part of the transfer of operations did not want to do so. The contract between Klagenfurt Airport and Austrian Airlines for ground services expired at the end of the year. The airport now provides the services itself and founded the subsidiary Avisafe for this purpose. AUA and the airport had negotiated that the 18 airline employees could change employers as part of the transfer of operations. But they did not want this: 17 decided to accept the social plan and one AUA employee accepted a transfer to Vienna. This meant that zero AUA employees transferred to the KLU subsidiary as part of the transfer of operations. The people affected did not provide any information about their reasons for exchanging their jobs for a social plan. Austrian Airlines spokeswoman Tanja Gruber confirmed to Aviation Direct: "The 18 Austrian Airlines employees in Klagenfurt were able to choose between a transfer of operations to Klagenfurt Airport and a social package. Apart from one employee, all colleagues opted for the voluntary social package."

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