April 26, 2023

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April 26, 2023

UK: Tui Airways launches Muscat charter

The British Tui Airways will operate individual charter flights to Muscat on behalf of a tour operator in the 2023 winter flight schedule. These will be operated with long-haul Boeing 787-8 aircraft. On November 30, 2023, a tour operator will fly from Birmingham, London-Gatwick and Manchester to the capital of Oman. The return flights are planned for the following day. These will initially be individual round trips. The three charter pairs are planned to be operated with the Boeing 787-8 aircraft.

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Bern is promoting e-bike summer vacations

After the opening of the Laupen time loop last autumn, Bern is starting the e-bike season for the first time with four themed routes. The four tours around the Swiss federal capital can be easily booked using a new four-day package including luggage transport. Nature is omnipresent in and around the city of Bern. Numerous parks and the Aare river nestle against the UNESCO-listed old town and invite you to experience and enjoy their characteristic coziness together with the Bernese. An e-bike excursion into the pristine nature at the gates of Bern is also comfortable. Four unique thematic e-bike routes lead around the city of Bern, through the Gantrisch Nature Park, the Laupen region and over the Frienisberg high plateau. Each route is dedicated to a specific theme at adventure locations - nature and agriculture, distant views, legends and time. Exciting facts and stories about the places invite you to pause at the adventure boards with wooden benches. The routes are signposted throughout and run away from the major traffic routes wherever possible. Along the routes, farm shops and country inns provide local food with seasonal products. New four-day package In collaboration with Eurotrek, the four-day e-bike offer "Around Bern" was created for the 2023 cycling season. It goes in four stages from the city of Bern out onto the four thematic routes. The price from 579 francs includes three nights' accommodation with breakfast, daily luggage transport, a subsidy for travel by train, the well-planned route and travel documents. An e-bike can be booked additionally.

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Kuwait Airways is increasing Madrid flights to Airbus A330-800

The airline Kuwait Airways intends to increase capacity on the route between Kuwait City and Madrid in the 2023/24 winter flight schedule. In the future, the airline plans to use long-haul aircraft of the Airbus A330-800 type. Available flight schedule data shows that the Gulf carrier plans to use the long-haul aircraft on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from October 29, 2023. So far, the two cities have mostly been connected with Airbus A320neo.

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Klagenfurt: Liliair is now advertising with the Embraer 175

Instead of the Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft, Liliair is now advertising Embraer 175s, which are to have 88 seats. However, the airline has not yet started selling tickets. Munich, on the other hand, has been removed from the flight schedule. Liliair is currently advertising the destinations Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne/Bonn on the recently updated company website, which are to be flown to with Embraer 175s from Klagenfurt. The aircraft type is now a visualization of the regional jet mentioned in Liliair's colors. The operating carrier, which is necessary because the company itself is not an airline, is still not mentioned anywhere on the website. The flight schedule published on the Liliair page shows that the airline wants to offer the destination Frankfurt am Main twice a day on Monday to Friday. There will be one flight each on Saturdays and Sundays. The airline plans to fly to Cologne/Bonn on the following days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Flights to Hamburg will be made on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. So far, Liliair is not selling any flight tickets and indicates on the homepage that it is working "at full speed" on a new booking form. However, the media office already announced at the end of February 2023 that it was in the final stages of the process and that bookings would be released shortly. However, this has not happened yet. The announced first flight date has also passed without further communication. So far, no date has been given for the start of the charter flights, which are now apparently planned with Embraer 175.

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Klagenfurt: Liliair not started very quietly

If Liliair's original announcement was to be believed, the first Bombardier CRJ-23 flight operated by Flite was supposed to take off from Klagenfurt to Frankfurt am Main on April 2023, 900. Hamburg and Munich were also to be served. But nothing came of it and the homepage has not been updated since its launch. Shortly before Christmas 2023, Lilihill had a regional jet of this type, which had previously been in service with Lufthansa Cityline, transferred from Luqa (Malta) to Klagenfurt. This CRJ-900, which is registered in the USA, actually still bears the livery of the previous operator. So that an aircraft in Liliair colors could be shown to the media, it was quickly covered overnight. However, only on one side, probably to save costs. It was also not aviation-grade decals, because they were immediately removed before the aircraft, which had been rented at short notice for show purposes, was flown out. Liliair has repeatedly said that the routes will be available for booking shortly. In January 2023, it was said that sales would begin at the beginning of March 2023, and since then it has repeatedly been said that it will be ready by the end of the week and that the booking systems are in final coordination. The Maltese "partner" Flite, the European branch of the US giant Mesa Airlines, does not yet have an AOC and Marathon Airlines has apparently not heard anything from Klagenfurt for a while. It is also significant that a press release was sent out a few days ago announcing flights to Cologne/Bonn and there was no mention of Munich.

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Hainan Airlines reactivates Shenzhen-Rome

The Chinese airline Hainan Airlines plans to fly twice a week between Shenzhen and Rome-Fiumicino again from the end of May 2023. This route was interrupted for a long time due to the corona pandemic, among other things. Hainan Airlines is reactivating this Italian route with effect from May 25, 2023. For the time being, the airline plans to fly with Boeing 787-9s on Thursdays and Sundays. Two weekly non-stop connections between Chongqing and Rome-Fiumicino will also be offered.

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FAA has Boeing 737-NG washers inspected

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) addressing missing washers on Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) aircraft, namely the -600, -700, -700C, -800, -900, and -900ER models. According to the FAA, the AD was initiated due to reports of missing washers, incorrect washer type, shanked fasteners, gaps in the fastener head, and incorrect hole sizes found on the left and right sides at a specific station (STA) of the frame inner girder and web. To comply with the directive, airlines must inspect existing repairs and cracks and, if necessary, perform remedial actions. "The FAA is issuing this AD to address cracks in the left and right sides of the STA 727 inner frame and S-18A web before the cracks reach a critical length," the agency said, adding that the cracks could result in a fatigue critical basic structure (FCBS) and the inability of a principal structural member (PSE) to support the ultimate load, which could compromise the structural integrity of the airplane." This is a final AD rule with an effective date of May 30, 2023. The agency estimates that the rule will affect 1.925 U.S.-certified Boeing 737 NGs and calculates that a general visual inspection and a high frequency eddy current (HFEC) and shim installation inspection will cost $170 and $425 per operator, respectively. In the meantime, the “condition-based actions include the installation of a new washer, an HFEC surface inspection of the STA 727 frame inner belt at S-18A for cracks and repair” and

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Codeshare: Azores Airlines and Tap expand cooperation

The Portuguese airlines Azores Airlines and Tap Air Portugal have expanded their codeshare cooperation from Lisbon. The first-mentioned carrier is adding its code to seven additional Tap routes. These are the destinations offered from Lisbon: Warsaw, Venice (Marco Polo), Tangier, Palma de Mallorca, Oslo, Mahon (Menorca) and Brussels. These are served by Tap Air Portugal. Azores Airlines is adding its code to the seven routes so that through tickets can be offered.

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Confusion about Russian Il-96-300 at BER

The landing of an Ilyushin Il-96-300 at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport caused a stir on Saturday, April 22, 2023. The plane took off from Moscow and stayed at the German capital's airport for around three hours. Due to the EU-wide ban that applies to Russian airlines and aircraft registered in Russia, such flights should not even take place. However, the German federal government has granted an exemption. Initially, a representative of the German Air Force explained that there had been a special permit for diplomatic purposes. They did not want to go into further details. There is probably a good reason for this, because according to a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, there were over 96 diplomats on board the Il-300-20 who had been expelled from the country by the Russian Federation. Russia stated that it had made this decision in response to the "mass expulsion" of Russian diplomats ordered by Germany. The German authorities did not want to comment on the report. All they say is that they have been in contact with the Russian authorities regarding personnel issues. It is assumed that the Russian Il-96-300 jet picked up the country's expelled diplomats.

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Air Canada flies to Barcelona and Edinburgh year-round

Star Alliance member Air Canada will fly to Barcelona and Edinburgh all year round from Montreal and Toronto respectively. So far, these have been seasonal connections. In the future, Barcelona will be served all year round. Four daily rotations will be offered from Montreal. The Boeing 787-8 aircraft will generally be used on this route. The Scottish capital Edinburgh will be served three times a week all year round with Boeing 787-9s. However, this route offered from Toronto will be interrupted between January 8 and February 29, 2024.

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