The airline easyJet will resume the London Southend - Paris CDG route during the 2023/24 winter season. From October 29, four weekly flights will be operated on this route. The carrier easyJet plans to resume the route between London Southend and Paris CDG in the future. From October 29, four weekly flights will be operated to cover this route.
The airline easyJet plans to start flying from London Gatwick airport to Akureyri at the end of October. Flights to Iceland are to be operated twice a week. The carrier easyJet has announced that it will start flying from London Gatwick airport to Akureyri. The number of flights is to be two per week.
The airline ITA Airways will operate flights from Rome to Washington DC in the future. The five weekly flights will be operated by Airbus A330neo aircraft. The carrier ITA Airways is expanding its route network further, and with the addition of this route the airline will fly 54 times a week to the USA. ITA Airways will plan five weekly flights to the city of Washington DC in the future, which will operate from the Rome Fiumicino International airport. The flights will be operated by Airbus A330neo aircraft. From August 1 to October 28, the Italian airline will fly daily to Washington DC, as confirmed by the portal Simple Flying.
A 24-year-old American woman who spat on another passenger before an American Airlines flight in April of last year and pushed away a flight attendant who tried to prevent her from opening a door was sentenced to three years' probation. The incident occurred on April 19, 2022, before the departure of an AA flight from Buffalo to Chicago. The woman got into an argument with another passenger and spat on him. The crew decided that the unruly PAX had to disembark. The plane was still on its way to the gate when the woman tried to open a door. A flight attendant who tried to prevent this was violently pushed away. The 24-year-old managed to open a door whose emergency slide had been triggered and fled to the apron. She was then "caught" by workers and the police and then provisionally arrested by the law enforcement authorities. A US district judge sentenced the woman to three years' probation. Apparently, the sentence was so "lenient" because the woman had no previous convictions and had already confessed during the investigation.
The Dutch low-cost airline Transavia plans to fly to Ljubljana with the Airbus A321neo aircraft. This also means that the capacity will increase to 232 seats per flight. Transavia currently serves the Amsterdam-Ljubljana route with Boeing 737-800s, which have 189 seats. According to a report by the portal Ex-Yu-Aviationcom, the company plans to fly with Airbus A21neo from December 2023, 321. This route will be one of the first on which the new additions will be used.
On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the low-cost airline Ryanair handed over a petition signed by 1,1 million people to the EU Commission, which aims to ensure that at least overflights are possible during ATC strikes. Company boss Michael O'Leary traveled to Brussels especially for this purpose. Specifically, the petition is directed against the practice in France, whose minimum standards during ATC strikes stipulate that domestic flights are given priority. International flights that only fly over the country are then often unable to use the airspace. Ryanair criticizes the fact that in the first five months alone there have already been ten times as many strike days as in the previous year. "Ryanair calls on the EU Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, to heed the petition of more than 1,1 million EU passengers and demand that all EU states protect overflights during air traffic control strikes, as is already the case in Greece, Italy and Spain," said the carrier.
The Boeing 767-300 with the registration N191DN suffered a bird strike during the climb in Stockholm-Arlanda on May 31, 2023. The pilots decided to turn back to the Swedish airport. Fuel had previously been dumped over the Baltic Sea because the long-haul aircraft was supposed to fly to New York-JFK as DL205. According to police, it is still unclear whether the Delta plane was hit by one or more birds. Around an hour after takeoff, the N191DN was able to land safely in Arlanda. Rescue teams were kept on standby as a precaution, but fortunately they were not needed.
A US lawyer embarrassed himself in court by referring to judgments from the past that do not even exist. The supposed "air passenger rights expert" simply left the preparation for the trial to Chat-GPT. The consequences were fatal for him and his client, because he should not have been able to rely on the decisions he referred to in his submission. They simply did not exist, because they were completely fictitious. For example, Chat-GPT had conjured up judgments against Iran Air and Delta that were never issued. Nor had there been any such trials. The matter was not only embarrassing for the lawyer, but also got him into trouble. He had to swear under oath that he had not intentionally intended to deceive the court in New York, but had negligently relied on Chat-GPT. He admitted that it was a serious mistake not to have checked the AI's work before submitting the brief to the court.
An era ended at the US airline Envoy Air on May 31, 2023, when it carried out its last official flight with the Embraer 145 aircraft. The American Airlines subsidiary was once one of the world's largest operators of this model. In the future, Envoy Air will operate a pure E170/175 fleet. In recent years, the company has sold off Embraer 135s, 140s and Bombardier CRJ700s, among others. Fleet harmonization is intended to reduce complexity. The company now has 106 E175s and 16 E170s. However, the Embraer 145s will not disappear from the American Airlines route network anytime soon, as Piedmont Airlines will continue to operate this model. This regional carrier has 67 units. According to CH-Aviation.com, the subcontractor recently reactivated former Air Wisconsin CRJ200s. Put simply, this means that American Airlines will not be withdrawing from the 50-seat segment, which is now part of Piedmont Airlines, any time soon, contrary to the general trend that is taking place in Europe much earlier than in the USA. Envoy Air most recently flew with Embraer 145s from its Chicago base.
The Turkish holiday airline SunExpress has announced that it will fly the Eintracht Frankfurt football team to the cup final against RB Leipzig, which will take place in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. The match will take place on June 3, 2023. "In the final of the European Cup, Eintracht already showed how well a trophy suits them - all the fighting spirit, the hard training, the passion paid off. We want the players to feel that way again this year at the final," confirms SunExpress CEO Max Kownatzki. "As an official airline partner, we are of course following Eintracht's impressive development very closely. We are proud to be on board as a long-term companion and we keep our fingers crossed for Saturday! That would be the third time that the team has flown home on a SunExpress plane with a trophy in their luggage. And as the saying goes: all good things come in threes." SunExpress is a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. It specializes in air traffic between Western Europe and Turkey. In the past, there was also a branch in Germany called SunExpress Germany, but this has since been closed down. The SunExpress plane glides through the air in an unmistakable special paint job: True to the Eintracht Frankfurt design, fans themselves chose the special paint job of a Boeing 737 as part of a vote. The PokalExpress has been traveling across the entire SunExpress route network for around three years.
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