January 23, 2023

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January 23, 2023

Melia Group opening soon in Seychelles

From 2025, the Melia Hotel Group will be the first Spanish chain to be represented in the Seychelles. The Melia Sea Front Mahe Island will be part of a new complex on the main island of Mahe. This consists of several buildings that include a conference center with a capacity of up to 300 people, a shopping area, a medical center, an apartment building and accommodation for the resort's employees. The Melia Sea Front Mahe Island is being built directly on the beach in Mahe and will offer 120 rooms, including 12 suites, three restaurants - one of which is on the roof terrace, several pools and a spa and fitness area.

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Lack of uniforms at Lufthansa

The AUA parent company lacks uniforms for its flight crew. Lufthansa employees complain about worn-out uniforms. When it comes to new items, the mainline's clothing store is currently having to fit more and more often, at least in popular sizes. "The pandemic and the effects of the war led to significant restrictions in production facilities and supply chains across the entire textile industry for a relatively long time," a spokeswoman confirmed the problem to "WirtschaftsWoche". However, according to Lufthansa, supplies have been ordered and are on the way. The airline also wants to involve new suppliers from the textile industry in uniform production.

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Korean Air will resume more European routes from March

Korean Air will resume four destinations in Europe from March: After a three-year pandemic-related break, the carrier will resume routes to Prague and Zurich from the end of March, and will resume connections to Istanbul and Madrid from the end of April. From March 27, Korean Air will fly to Prague three times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The flights will depart from Incheon International Airport at 12:45 p.m. and land in Prague at 16:55 p.m. The return flight will depart from Prague at 18:50 p.m., arriving in Incheon the following day at 11:50 a.m. The Incheon - Zurich connection will be back in the flight schedule from March 28. The three weekly flights will depart from Incheon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 12:20 p.m., landing in Zurich at 17:30 p.m. The return flights will depart from Zurich at 19:30 p.m. and arrive at Incheon International Airport the following day at 13:35 p.m. Last year, Korean Air had already offered unscheduled flights to Istanbul once a week. In order to meet the increasing demand for travel to Turkey, it will now resume three regular flights a week from April 24. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the flight departs from Incheon at 13:40 p.m. and arrives in Istanbul at 19:40 p.m. The return flights leave Istanbul at 21:20 p.m. and arrive at Incheon International Airport the next day at 13:25 p.m. The airline will also operate the route to Madrid three times a week from April 25: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The flights depart from Incheon

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Air India ahead of order for 495 aircraft

The airline Air India, which is majority owned by Tata Sons, is said to be about to place a large order for 495 aircraft. The Reuters agency reports that the orders are expected to be placed with Boeing and Airbus on January 27, 2023. According to the report, the majority will be narrow-body aircraft. These are said to be 235 aircraft from the A320 series and around 190 B737-Max. Air India is also said to be ordering the long-haul A321XLR model. It also plans to order 40 A350s, 20 B787s and ten B777Xs. The first B737-Maxs are expected to be delivered shortly, as the 50 aircraft that were originally intended for China Southern Airlines have been "taken over".

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Metro line to Istanbul Airport officially opened

The complicated public transport connections to the new Istanbul airport have repeatedly been the subject of criticism. That changed on Sunday, January 23, 2023, when a metro line connecting the airport with the city center was opened. The metro line is about 34 kilometers long and connects the center with the airport. The journey time is about 24 minutes, a significant improvement over the previous public transport service. The inauguration was carried out by Turkish President Erdoğan.

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Athens: Buzz's Boeing 737-800 landed safely after bomb threat

There was a bomb threat on Sunday against the Boeing 737-800 with the registration SP-RKB, operated by the Polish airline Buzz. The plane was on its way from Katowice to Athens on behalf of Ryanair. According to official information, there were 190 people on board the medium-haul jet. The SP-RKB was able to land safely at Athens airport and disembark. The Greek police then searched the plane and the passengers' luggage. Fortunately, nothing was found. The SP-RKB was on its way from Katowice to Athens under the flight number FR6385. During the flight, the captain reported that a bomb threat had been received on an unspecified route. The Greek Air Force then escorted the plane to a safe landing in the capital.

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EU-wide entry and exit system is postponed again

A new EU-wide entry and exit system was supposed to be introduced in May 2023. This deadline will not be met because numerous - as yet unresolved - problems have arisen. The EU Commission assumes that the EES can only be introduced at the end of 2023. This is not the first delay, as the system was supposed to have been in operation since last year. Various industry associations welcome the new postponement, as they fear that any "teething problems" could have a negative impact on passenger and tourist numbers.

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New Special Livery: Wizz Air lets passengers design

The low-cost airline Wizz Air is calling on interested parties to take part in a design competition to produce a new special livery. The topic of environmental protection is to be represented on an Airbus A321neo in the future. The carrier launched an ideas competition on Friday in which interested people can submit their suggestions. The winning design is to appear on an Airbus A321neo medium-haul jet. The carrier has specified that the designs should represent the topics of environmental protection and sustainability. This is probably also due to the fact that Wizz Air highlights the company's low carbon dioxide emissions in pretty much every media release and wants to give itself a greener image. So it is not surprising that around the announcement of the competition it was again claimed that it had the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per passenger kilometer. Interestingly, other carriers, including arch-rival Ryanair, also regularly make this claim. Anyone wishing to submit their design for the planned Special Livery can do so by email to [email protected] do. The winning project will receive flight vouchers worth 2.000 euros.

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Austrian Army successfully completes “Daedalus 23”

Between January 16 and 20, 2023, the Austrian Armed Forces increased airspace controls due to the World Economic Forum, which was held in Davos (Switzerland). A restricted flight zone was set up over parts of Vorarlberg and Tyrol. More than 1.000 soldiers and 20 aircraft, eleven fixed-wing aircraft and nine helicopters ensured the security of the event. The tasks included patrol flights for surveillance, flights to identify airspace violations and transport flights. The pilots completed 119 flight hours in 202 missions. Due to Davos' geographical location close to the border with Austria, Switzerland made a request in advance that the Austrian Air Force secure Austrian airspace for the duration of the World Economic Forum. "I would like to thank all the soldiers and civilian employees deployed for their excellent performance during 'Dädalus23'. The very professional cooperation with our Swiss and German neighbors testifies to the high performance and competence of all participants," said Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner.

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Corendon Europe cuts again in Austria and Germany

The Maltese airline Corendon Europe is once again cutting costs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Flights to the Canary Islands are at risk from numerous airports. Most of these routes were discontinued early in the 2022/23 winter flight schedule, but were due to be reactivated in April 2023. Corendon and its EU subsidiary Corendon Europe overreached themselves in the summer of 2022, as they launched an enormous number of new routes. They expanded so quickly that they wet-leased a conspicuous number of aircraft from other airlines. In some cases, the leased fleet was even larger than the one they operated themselves. There was obviously no economic success, as the route network was radically cut in several waves. Even some of the routes that are still left have had to be removed from the systems in recent weeks. The carrier's staff were informed some time ago that the company would be less expansive in the summer of 2023 and that the route network would also be reduced. The company wants to place more emphasis on making money. For example, the Basel base, which did not even last a year, is being closed. The latest "cutback" affects flight connections from Brussels to Tenerife, from Friedrichshafen, Graz, Linz, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart to Las Palmas, from Paderborn, Rostock and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to Fuerteventura and from Rostock to Hurghada. The connections are currently marked "sold out". At Corendon, this is always a harbinger of the routes disappearing completely from the reservation system shortly afterwards. As is usual with "unwelcome news", Corendon made no statement on the recent cuts made to the flight schedule.

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