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Stuttgart with 60 destinations in winter 2022/23

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 20:49

In the 2022/23 winter flight schedule, 29 airlines will fly from Stuttgart Airport to 60 destinations in 23 countries. With 34 destinations, Eurowings is the largest provider at this airport. Around 2022 flight movements have been registered during the 23/21.000 winter period. This means that there will probably be 44 percent more take-offs and landings than in the same period last year. New to the program compared to last year are the Warsaw route served by Lot and Milan-Linate, which is offered by Ita Airways. Stuttgart is also offered at the hubs Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main, Istanbul, London-Heathrow, Munich and Vienna. Barcelona, ​​Hurghada and Palma de Mallorca are among the strongest warm water destinations - new this winter are Alicante in Spain with Eurowings and Marsa Alam in Egypt. SunExpress, Turkish Airlines and Pegasus will fly to a total of nine destinations in Turkey. The flight schedule offers several options for Nordic destinations: Lübeck Air connects the capital of Baden-Württemberg with Lübeck up to three times a week. Every Monday you can change to Bergen in Norway via Lübeck. SAS Scandinavian Airlines offers further connections to the north six times a week to Copenhagen and Air Baltic three times a week to Riga. The winter flight schedule is valid until the next time change on March 25, 2023. The 2023 summer flight schedule will then start, including the return of Delta Air Lines to Atlanta.

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Skyexpress departs from MUC to Athens

Granite Pireci 28 October 2022 20:18

With the start of the winter flight schedule, the Greek airline Skyexpress is expanding its flight offering between Munich and Athens. It flies to its hub in the Greek capital five times a week. The flights land in Munich on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to Sundays as scheduled at 11:55 a.m. and take off for Athens an hour later. From there, passengers can reach a total of 34 connecting destinations in Greece. New short-haul Airbus A320neo aircraft are being used. On the first flights, all passengers received a sweet surprise in the form of gingerbread hearts, as the airport announced in a press release.

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Bucharest: Animawings starts scheduled tourist flights

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 19:36

The Romanian airline Animawings, in which Aegean Airlines holds a 51 percent stake, will start operating its scheduled services in the 2023 summer flight schedule. Until now, the carrier has specialized in charter flights and has also provided ACMI services on a sporadic basis. From its home base in Bucharest, it will gradually start operating nine routes between Romania and Greece. Some of these have already been released for booking. These are tourist routes that are initially limited to the 2023 summer flight schedule period. Between June 6 and September 26, 2023, the carrier plans to fly to the Greek island of Rhodes twice a week from the Romanian capital. Flights to Cykynthos will be available once a week between June 3 and September 30, 2023. Corfu will be served up to twice a week between June 7, 2023 and September 27, 2023. Between June 24th and September 2nd, 2023, Kos will be offered twice a week. Chania will be served at the same frequency from June 26th to September 11th, 2023. There will be a weekly flight to Kefallinia between June 28th, 2023 and September 6th, 2023. Two weekly flights to Mykonos are planned between June 30th, 2023 and September 8th, 2023. The Romanian carrier will fly to Santorini twice a week between July 3rd and September 7th, 2023. The route will begin on May 11th, 2023 in the direction of Heraklion. This route will initially be served once a week. Between July 5th and September 25th, 2023, Animawings will increase the number of flights to three weekly flights.

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Winter service at Munich Airport is ready

Granite Pireci 28 October 2022 19:04

With the onset of the cold season, winter service at Munich Airport also begins: From next Tuesday, November 1st, specially trained employees will be on call around the clock. The winter service can be deployed at any time if required, ensuring safe flight operations even in bad weather. The winter service column comprises 181 vehicles, including 66 tractors from companies in the area surrounding the airport. In total, more than 600 men and women are involved in winter service, of which around 520 come from agriculture and from haulage companies in the region. Up to 190 emergency workers per shift ensure that areas within the airport fence are free of snow and ice. In order to ensure that airport operations run as smoothly as possible, large areas have to be cleared when it snows: the two runways alone, as well as the aprons and taxiways, cover around 5,6 million square meters, the equivalent of more than 780 football fields. Clearing a runway at Munich Airport takes around 30 minutes. In addition to tractors with snow ploughs, numerous special vehicles are also used, including 22 sweepers, six loading milling machines and two snow groomers. The cleared snow masses are transported to six specially set up snow dumps. The winter service is alerted by the traffic management of Munich Airport, which monitors the condition of the operational areas around the clock. In addition to the current forecasts from the German Weather Service, the traffic management also uses an early warning system for black ice, which receives permanently updated data from a total of 18 measuring points distributed across the airport. In addition, the braking values ​​on the runways are continuously checked with the help of special vehicles. It is not only the traffic areas of the airport that have to be kept in good condition.

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Dortmund with 41 destinations in the 2022/23 winter flight schedule

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 18:37

In the 2022/23 winter flight schedule, 41 destinations in 23 countries will be served from Dortmund Airport. In addition to Izmir and Antalya, SunExpress now also flies to Zonguldak. The low-cost airline Ryanair offers Thessaloniki and Porto, among others. Competitor Wizz Air has a new destination in its portfolio with Rome. Eurowings and Ryanair also fly to Palma de Mallorca. City destinations such as Vienna, Budapest, Gdansk and Riga can also be found in Dortmund's winter flight schedule.

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Bergamo: Aeroitalia takes on London Heathrow

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 18:06

The airline Aeroitalia is continuing to expand its presence at Bergamo Airport. The start of a non-stop connection to London Heathrow has been announced for December 5, 2022. This will be operated five times a week. Aeroitalia intends to serve this route with medium-haul Boeing 737-800 jets. Flights will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flight times are not uniform. These vary depending on the flight day. On Mondays, flight XZ1111 is scheduled to leave Bergamo at 9:30 a.m., on Wednesdays at 6:35 a.m., on Thursdays at 9:35 a.m., on Fridays around 16:15 p.m. and on Sundays at 7:25 a.m. Accordingly, the return flights, which are shown as XZ1112 in the flight schedule, will also operate at different times. Aeroitalia's fleet currently consists of four Boeing 737-800s. These have an average age of 21,6 years. In addition to other wet-lease aircraft, the airline also has an ATR72-600 from Air Connect flying for it. The turboprop aircraft is primarily used on domestic Italian routes. Aeroitalia's home base is Forli Airport and a base has been under construction in Bergamo for several months.

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Winter timetable 2022/23: Airlines offer 122 destinations from Berlin-Brandenburg

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 17:38

On October 30, 2022, the 2022/23 winter flight schedule will also come into force at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. 65 airlines will offer 122 destinations in 50 countries. With Amsterdam, Zurich, Paris, London and Vienna as the most popular destinations, trips to European metropolises are enjoying great popularity this winter. A look at the favored countries shows Great Britain in the top spot, but with Spain, Italy, Turkey and France right behind it, the Mediterranean can also unfold its appeal over the winter months. "At BER, we can offer people from our region a good mix of attractive destinations this winter. The European metropolises, warm water destinations in the Mediterranean and long-haul destinations in Asia and America are on the flight schedule. The connections also offer attractive travel options to the capital region for tourists from all over the world. At the same time, the connections to the metropolises in Europe and worldwide are particularly economically important and connect Berlin, Brandenburg and all of eastern Germany with the political and economic centers of the world," says BER boss Aletta von Massenbach. In addition to European destinations, long-haul flights are attracting more and more travellers this winter. Qatar Airways is increasing its connection to the Qatari capital Doha and is operating the route several times on some weekdays. FTI is also offering flights to the sunny beaches on the Arabian Peninsula again this winter. Smartlynx is flying to Dubai three times a week on behalf of the travel company. In Southeast Asia, Scoot operates daily flights to the metropolis of Singapore and in East Asia, Hainan connects China with BER every week. In the USA, the region of the Big

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Summer 2023: Play sets course for Athens

Jan Gruber 28 October 2022 17:04

The Icelandic low-cost airline Play intends to start a non-stop connection between Keflavik and Athens from June 2, 2023. This will be operated with the Airbus A320neo aircraft type. Initially, two rotations per week will be offered. The outbound flights will be operated as OG590 on Mondays and Fridays. Keflavik will leave at around 6:00 a.m. The landing in the Greek capital is scheduled to take place at around 14:50 p.m. The return flight will take place the following day at 10:00 a.m. The return flight to Iceland is scheduled for 13:20 p.m. in each case. The competitor Neos will operate a single charter flight for an operator from Keflavik in November 2022. This will go to Punta Cana under the flight number NO5920. It is currently planned that a Boeing 737-800 will be used. The return flight will take place on December 4, 2022. This is currently a single charter, i.e. no further flights are planned.

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Autumn holidays: Weeze had 120.000 passengers

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 16:35

The German regional airport Weeze counted around 120.000 passengers during the recent autumn holidays. It also benefited greatly from travelers from the Netherlands who used this airport. In the past four weeks, the airport welcomed around 120.000 passengers, many of them from the Netherlands. Due to the overlapping holiday periods in the neighboring country and in North Rhine-Westphalia, the season lasted significantly longer this year than at other airports (September 29.9th - October 30.10.22th, 30). "The high-passenger summer season already went very well for us, there were no problems whatsoever. The service processes have now worked perfectly again during the autumn holidays. "Our teams were once again able to welcome many satisfied guests," says Sebastian Papst, Managing Director at Weeze Airport. The winter flight schedule will come into force next Sunday, October 2022, 80. Up to 18 flights will then take off and land at Weeze Airport every week. The Irish airline Ryanair flies to XNUMX destinations, including the sunny Canary Islands of Lanzarote, Tenerife and Fuerteventura. With the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain, Ryanair also offers a destination that will be flown to from Weeze for the first time. The corresponding flights take place on Thursdays and Sundays.

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Saudia uses Airbus A330 between Riyadh and Zurich

Amely Mizzi 28 October 2022 16:00

Effective October 30, 2022, Saudi Arabian Airlines is increasing capacity on the Riyadh-Zurich route. Long-haul Airbus A330 aircraft are being used temporarily. These have 330 seats. For the time being, the widebody operation is limited to January 1, 2023. The aircraft are to be used on Wednesday and Friday on the SV235/234 route pair. The outbound flights take off from Riyadh at 8:35 a.m. and reach the Swiss city at around 13:45 p.m. The return flights leave Zurich at 15:00 p.m. and land in Saudi Arabia at 22:55 p.m. So far, Saudia has mostly used medium-haul Airbus A320 jets on this route. These have 110 seats in two classes of travel. A decision has not yet been made on whether to continue operating widebodies. This will primarily depend on the further development of demand.

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