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January 27, 2022

Lufthansa increases Friedrichshafen-Frankfurt

Effective January 31, 2022, Lufthansa is increasing the flight connection from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt am Main to up to three daily rotations. According to the airport, this should also enable travel on a double-day basis again. What is new is that from January 31, 2022, an early flight at 6:35 a.m. will again be offered from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt. In the evening, there will be a flight in the opposite direction at 21:20 p.m. This means that Lufthansa is putting a plane into the night stop again. Friedrichshafen Airport is also trying to push the crane connection with an unusual campaign. Upon presentation of the boarding pass and parking ticket, travelers receive a validation at the information desk and can park free of charge.

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Alafco will hand over four A350-900s to ITA Airways this year

The airline ITA Airways plans to use the Airbus A2022 aircraft in the summer of 350. These are leased aircraft that the carrier was able to secure a few weeks ago. The Kuwait-based company Alafco announced that it had been able to accommodate four Airbus A350-900s at ITA Airways. According to the lessor, the long-haul jets will be handed over to the Italian airline in quarters two and three. ITA Airways secured a total of twelve aircraft of this type through Lessoren in the fall of 2022. Ten A330-900s have also been ordered directly from Airbus. These long-haul aircraft are intended to gradually replace the aircraft acquired from Alitalia.

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Aida flots Aidamira out again

The German shipping company will sell the ship Aidamira. The official decommissioning is scheduled to take place in March 2022. It is the oldest cruise ship of this operator, but it has not been in use for very long. According to a report by Shippingitaly.it, an application has been submitted to the Genoa port authority to re-register the ship from Italy to an unspecified non-EU country. Ambassador Cruise Line is rumored to be the buyer. The ship was anchored off Tenerife until January 5, 2022, and then set off for Pula, Croatia, for maintenance work. Maintenance work is being carried out in a shipyard there. At Aida, the Mira was only in commercial service for about three months. This ship was taken over from the parent company Costa around three months before the start of the corona pandemic, where it had been in use for a long time as the Costa Neoriviera.

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Eurowings Germany and Verdi agree on collective agreement

The Verdi union and the management of the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings have agreed on a new collective agreement for cabin crew. Among other things, this stipulates that the salaries of flight attendants will in future be linked to inflation rates. Put simply, this means that salaries will increase in line with the annual inflation rate. Two salary levels are planned, but the actual impact will not be felt until January 1, 2023. From this point on, salaries are to be increased by the inflation rate set by the Federal Statistical Office. Flight attendants are to receive the second level on December 1, 2023, shortly before the end of the agreement. In autumn 2021, it seemed as if the ideas of the employee representatives and the Eurowings management were almost insurmountably different. There were minor protests. Ultimately, a compromise was agreed through negotiations that is obviously supported by both sides. Part of the collective agreement is that flight attendants should receive higher allowances for night work and overtime. According to the Verdi union, these will be increased by around 75 percent. Cabin crew will also receive a one-off "corona bonus" of 2022 euros in March 400. Cabin crew will receive quarterly bonuses linked to overall productivity. The new collective agreement expressly only applies to Eurowings Germany. The Austrian subsidiary Eurowings Europe has its own collective agreement for the Austrian locations. However, this does not apply to the Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Stockholm-Arlanda and Prague bases. Here, service contracts based on the respective local law apply.

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Basel: “Reliable forecast is difficult”

Basel Airport handled around 3,6 million passengers last year. Compared to 2020, there was an increase of 39 percent, but it was 60 percent below the pre-crisis level. In 2019, there were 9,1 million travelers, setting an all-time record. At the beginning of 2021, passenger numbers were still at a very low level. As a result of the decline in the number of cases and the removal of travel restrictions, the travel situation eased from the summer onwards. In the second half of the year, around 60% of the passengers from 2019 were recorded, and on weekends this figure was up to 80% compared to 2019. The total number of flight movements was 64, including almost 031 commercial flights. In 41, a 300% increase in total freight volume to 2021 tonnes was recorded (previous year: 10 tonnes, 119: 000 tonnes). Growth is particularly pronounced in express freight (+108.500%/2019), while general freight increased by +106.100% in full freight and by 14% in truck freight. How quickly passenger traffic will actually recover depends primarily on the development of the pandemic, in particular the emergence of new virus variants and the resulting travel restrictions. Against this background, it is difficult to make reliable traffic forecasts. It should be noted that the situation can quickly change in one direction or the other. Among the conceivable scenarios for traffic development, the 2020 budget assumes 12 million passengers next year, which corresponds to 3% of 2022. This will enable EuroAirport to maintain its financial stability.

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Easyjet wants to fly at pre-crisis levels in the summer

The low-cost airline Easyjet currently expects that business will be largely normal in the 2022 summer flight schedule. The effects of the Omicron variant were strongly felt in the winter flight schedule, as bookings collapsed from December 2021. In the first quarter of the current financial year, which ended on December 31, 2021, the carrier flew in around 213 million pounds. Compared to the previous period, the deficit was reduced by around half. Sales were 805 million pounds. The company carried 11,9 million passengers. Easyjet announced that the effects of the Omicron variant will still be clearly reflected in the figures in January 2022. Demand collapsed in December 2021. Nevertheless, CEO Johan Lundgren remains confident and expects a strong summer season. The capacity offered is currently around 50 percent. During the peak travel season, July and August 2022, the carrier aims to reach roughly pre-crisis levels. After the UK announced the easing of entry regulations, Easyjet said it had seen a small boom in new bookings. "We are looking at a strong summer with pent-up demand that will allow Easyjet to return to capacity close to 2019 levels, with flight connections from the UK to beach and holiday destinations developing particularly well," explains Johan Lundgren.

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Hamburg Airport with a new IT manager

Hamburg Airport has had a new IT manager since January 1, 2022: Dorothea Brons. She also heads the subsidiary Airsys. This company develops, optimizes and integrates the IT systems at the airport. Dorothea Brons succeeds Hannes Pfister as Chief Information Officer (CIO), who has retired at his own request after eight successful years at Hamburg Airport. "With Dorothea Brons, an experienced and competent professional is taking over IT management at Hamburg Airport. In recent years, she has played a key role in establishing new digital technology for greater networking. In the future, Hamburg Airport wants to continue to transform itself into a digital and data-driven company - both within the company and together with its partners. We are pleased to continue on this path with Dorothea Brons and that we have been able to win her over as CIO," says Michael Eggenschwiler, CEO of Hamburg Airport.

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Austrian Airlines reactivates Los Angeles

From May 20, 2022, Austrian Airlines will add the destination Los Angeles back to its route network. Five weekly rotations are planned. In Europe, Valencia and Kavala, among others, will be flown to again. "We are continuously expanding our offering with new long-haul destinations. In doing so, we are meeting the demand of our passengers, which was already shown last summer: people want to travel. The new winter destination Cancún also confirms this desire to travel," says Austrian Airlines Chief Sales Officer Michael Trestl. "Los Angeles is the gateway to California, a popular holiday destination and transfer hub for onward flights with our partners. We expect a balanced number of local and transfer passengers changing in Vienna at the new destination." The destination Los Angeles was last on the AUA flight schedule in summer 2019. Austrian Airlines plans to offer up to 2022 rotations per week to the United States of America in summer 33. The four US destinations are to be served daily again. The flight time from Vienna to Los Angeles, around 9.900 kilometers away, is 12:30 hours. Focus on Mediterranean destinations On short and medium-haul routes in summer 2022, the focus will be on tourist destinations around the Mediterranean. A total of 36 destinations in this region are offered. "The offer on short and medium-haul routes will also be significantly expanded and densified compared to the previous year. This means that we are implementing a capacity increase of 12 aircraft," says Michael Trestl. Austrian Airlines will fly to a total of 78 holiday destinations in Greece up to 19 times a week in the summer. In addition to 17 rotations per week to Athens and eleven weekly connections

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Boeing with a loss of 4,3 billion US dollars

The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing recorded a loss of 4,3 billion US dollars last year. Although this was around two-thirds lower than the previous period, revenues fell to 14,8 billion US dollars. Sales, on the other hand, rose by seven percent to 62,3 billion US dollars. One of the main reasons for this is that deliveries of the B737-Max aircraft have picked up. On the other hand, deliveries of the B787 have been stopped due to various defects. The FAA has not yet given the green light. There are also delays in the B777X program that are having a negative financial impact. Boeing expects to be able to significantly increase the production rate of the B737Max this year. Last year, it was able to land numerous new orders for this model. It plans to finish 31 aircraft per month shortly. Things are currently looking less rosy for the Dreamliner, as there is currently no foreseeable time for deliveries to resume.

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Vaccinated and recovered: Italy abolishes additional testing requirements

The Italian government is simplifying the entry regulations, which were recently tightened due to the Omicron Corona variant. From February 1, 2022, the additional testing requirement to which vaccinated and recovered people are currently subject will no longer apply. In concrete terms, this means that proof of complete vaccination or recovery will then be sufficient again. The additional presentation of a negative corona test will then no longer be necessary. Unvaccinated people currently have to show a negative result and then go into quarantine for five days. This will also be simplified, because from February 1, 2022, isolation will no longer be necessary. However, the requirement to present a negative corona test will remain. Both PCR and antigen results are recognized.

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