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As Air-Berlin-Laudamotion-A321 to Muscat - back as a Lufthansa freighter

Jan Gruber 28 December 2021 19:46

Air Berlin has not been in the air for several years and the Austrian company Laudamotion, which emerged from its former subsidiary Niki, returned the AOC last year. Nevertheless, an Airbus A321 in the Air Berlin-Laudamotion hybrid livery has been flying in recent days, making stopovers in Hamburg and Luqa, among other places. It is the D-AEUA, which was previously used as D-ABCG by Air Berlin and then as OE-LCG by Niki and Laudamotion. There was a heated dispute over this aircraft in 2018, because Niki Lauda was of the opinion that he was entitled to the entire fleet when he acquired the Niki assets. However, Lufthansa secured this by buying or leasing it. So a court had to determine that the crane must lease the aircraft to the buyer of the Niki assets at "standard market conditions". This worked at first, but just a few months later Ryanair and Lufthansa were publicly at loggerheads. The crane accused the company of late payment and wanted all the machines back. Laudamotion and the parent company not only denied this, but even countered by saying that the leasing rates were too high. The case ended up in court in London and a compromise was reached: Lauda was allowed to keep the machines leased from Lufthansa for the time being, but an early termination of the contracts for the following year was agreed. In June 2019, this Airbus A321 was then handed over to the crane. Future as a freighter, operated by Lufthansa Cityline It was originally planned that all ex-Laudamotion A321s would be used by Eurowings. However, the then OE-LCG never got to this point.

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Vienna Airport is looking for a doctor with a health insurance contract

Amely Mizzi 28 December 2021 17:05

Vienna-Schwechat Airport is currently looking for a statutory health insurance doctor who would like to settle in the "Health Center". The background to this is that the previous general practitioner Peter Tschernigg has opened a new practice in Gaweinstal and his contract at the airport expires on December 31, 2021. At least for the time being, the E-Card, as the health insurance card is called in Austria, will be useless again in the Health Center at Vienna-Schwechat Airport. Tschernigg was the only doctor who had a valid health insurance contract. All other doctors are so-called private doctors. In simple terms, this means that the fee note must first be paid by the patient themselves and can then be submitted to the health insurance company. The health insurance company normally only reimburses part of the amount, so that people without private supplementary insurance almost always end up with a kind of "deductible". However, Vienna Airport absolutely wants to have a statutory health insurance doctor in the Health Center again and is looking for a successor for Peter Tschernigg. However, this is not so easy, because according to Austrian bureaucracy, various bodies, including the Austrian Health Insurance Fund, have a say. Apart from that, it is not that easy to find a general practitioner with a health insurance contract, because these are now rare and can basically choose their municipality, because there are more vacancies than there are health insurance doctors. Flughafen Wien AG confirmed to the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten that it is looking for a new health insurance doctor: "Vienna Airport is trying to offer health insurance services at the site again as quickly as possible. Discussions are currently underway with the relevant bodies in this regard."

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Saarbrücken with a colorful summer 2022 program

Jan Gruber 28 December 2021 16:17

There will be eleven weekly scheduled flights to Berlin from the German regional airport Saarbrücken in the 2021/22 summer flight schedule. There will probably be six flights to Hamburg per week. The flights will be operated by turboprop aircraft operated by Danish Air Transport. The tour operator Tui Germany is having an Airbus A320 operated by Smartlynx stationed in Saarland. This will fly to Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Palma de Mallorca, among others. Further details on the Tui destinations can be found at this link. Corendon Airlines and SunExpress will offer three and four weekly rotations to Antalya respectively in summer 2022. Corendon Europe has planned the destinations Crete, Kos and Rhodes from Saarbrücken. The winter routes (Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria) are to be continued at least through April 2022. The Maltese carrier plans to fly from Saarland to Hurghada once a week. The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings is currently planning to fly to Palma de Mallorca once a day. Individual charter flights to Jersey, Podgorica and Sardinia are also planned from Saarbrücken. These can be booked through the respective tour operator. It is currently expected that one or two additional individual charters could be launched for the summer of 2022.

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Emirates is not allowed to carry passengers from eight African countries

Jan Gruber 28 December 2021 15:49

Due to an order from the Emirate of Dubai, Emirates airline is no longer transporting passengers from several African countries with immediate effect. The opposite direction of flight, i.e. from Dubai to the affected countries, remains permitted. The Emirate of Dubai has ordered that people who have been in Angola, Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ivory Coast and/or Ethiopia in the last two weeks are not allowed to enter the country. Furthermore, airlines are prohibited from flying this group of people into Dubai. However, flying out is still permitted, so Emirates can only operate one-way passenger flights. The decision is justified, among other things, by the fact that a fourth corona wave is currently raging in these African countries and the Omicron variant is clearly predominant. With the transport and entry ban, Dubai wants to try to prevent or slow down the introduction of the virus into the emirate. The following destinations are affected in the Emirates route network: Luanda (Angola), Conakry (Guinea), Nairobi (Kenya), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Entebbe (Uganda), Accra (Ghana), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). According to Emirates, the fifth freedom route between Conakry and Dakar is also affected. No passengers can board this route in Guinea until further notice.

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Royal Jordanian calls for government aid for loss coverage and new aircraft

Amely Mizzi 28 December 2021 13:16

The state-owned Royal Jordanian Airlines is asking the government for support of 282 million US dollars. This is intended to largely cover the losses incurred due to the corona pandemic. The Bloomberg agency reports, among other things, that in addition to covering the losses, the purchase of new aircraft is also to be financed. Royal Jordanian Airlines plans to double its fleet in the next five years. It is hoped that the funds will be paid out in two tranches. In the first half of 2022 - subject to government approval - around 141 million euros are to be paid out. Company boss Samer Majali wants to use this to cover the losses incurred from the second quarter of 2020. The remaining amount is to be transferred later in the coming year and will primarily be used for down payments for new aircraft.

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Transnusa: China ahead of the first international delivery of the Comac ARJ21

Amely Mizzi 28 December 2021 12:42

The Chinese aircraft manufacturer Comac is about to deliver the first ARJ21 to a customer outside the People's Republic of China. The aircraft with the MSN 186 will go to the Indonesian company Transnusa. This carrier has ordered a total of 30 ARJ21s through the leasing company China Aircraft Leasing and is therefore considered a particularly prestigious customer, as the vast majority of orders come from China. In addition to Transnusa, Lao Airlines and Myanmar National Airlines have also ordered this model. The fact that the Chinese model is strongly reminiscent of the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 is no coincidence. In the 1990s, the rear-drive jet was manufactured under license. It was further developed and launched on the market as the Comac ARJ21. European suppliers such as Liebherr and FACC also work for the manufacturer.

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Germany: Around 30 percent of the return costs are not covered

Jan Gruber 28 December 2021 10:06

Let the state fly you home from your vacation, but don't pay the cost share for the charter flights - this or something similar seems to be the motto of many Germans, because thousands of bills are still unpaid. At the beginning of the first Corona wave in March 2020, many European countries, including Germany and Austria, organized repatriation operations. The Federal Republic organized around 260 charter flights to bring stranded vacationers home. However, these were not free of charge; a previously defined cost share had to be paid. Austria made it easier for itself, because instead of sending subsequent invoices with a request for transfer - like Germany - the account details had to be given and the money was debited before departure. The German Foreign Ministry sent out around 54.000 payment requests, of which the vast majority were paid or those affected were granted installment payments, but 7.000 were not paid at all, the DPA researched. In 1.200 cases, the state has already gone to court to collect the money. Regardless of this, the Federal Republic of Germany spent around 93,8 million euros to bring stranded holidaymakers home. It was only months later that payment requests began to be sent out, totalling around 31,7 million euros, of which around 28,6 million euros have been paid so far. In addition, around four million euros are being collected from other EU countries. Around 500 people are said to have not received any bills to date. The German Foreign Ministry currently assumes that around 25 to 30 percent of the total costs

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Helios Real Estate builds logistics center at Vienna Airport

Amely Mizzi 28 December 2021 09:36

Helios Real Estate intends to build another logistics center on a 213.000 square meter site near Vienna-Schwechat Airport. Airport board member Günther Ofner signed a corresponding purchase agreement. Several buildings with a usable area of ​​around 70.000 square meters are to be built. These will primarily serve logistics purposes. Ofner said: “Despite the crisis, AirportCity continues to grow: We are delighted to welcome another large international company, Helios Real Estate, to our site. The need for logistics and commercial space in the airport area has increased enormously due to the disruption of global logistics flows during the COVID-19 pandemic. Only by maintaining air freight flights could the supply of critical health goods and for the entire production be maintained; without this essential supply chain, large parts of the economy would probably have come to a standstill. The reorganization of global logistics has led to numerous new settlement projects in the airport region; a total of 37 hectares of industrial land have been allocated or built on. This strengthens the location quality of the airport region, and the increase in the number of companies settling there will also create around 1.000 new jobs.” Representatives of Helios Real Estate highlight the positive connection to the motorway and air transport modes: “Vienna Airport, with its direct connection to the motorway and thus to global and local supply chains, is an absolute top location in Austria for us in development and for our tenants in operation. We are very pleased that we were able to take advantage of this development option here and acquire one of the largest remaining areas in this region. Our thanks go to Vienna Airport for its great support and commitment in difficult times.

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Misdirected suitcase: TAP had to make an unscheduled stopover

Amely Mizzi 28 December 2021 09:04

The airline Tap Air Portugal had an unfortunate mishap on Saturday when there was a piece of luggage on board flight TP5 that did not belong to a passenger. The oversight was only noticed after the Airbus A321LR was already in the air. Since terrorist attacks have occurred using suitcases that were left unattended, no pieces of luggage that are not associated with a passenger on board are allowed to fly. Airlines usually take this rule very seriously and, for safety reasons, accept that departure may be delayed for the purpose of unloading. But on Saturday, things went seriously wrong in Lisbon. The Airbus A321LR with the registration CS-TXA was supposed to fly from Lisbon to Natal. It was only after take-off that it was noticed that there was a "stray" piece on board. A suitcase was accidentally misdirected and mistakenly stowed in the cargo hold of this aircraft. After the pilots were informed of the mishap, they decided to make an emergency landing at Funchal Airport via Tenerife. The misdirected suitcase was unloaded there. After a routine check, the journey to Brazil continued. For the passengers, this incident, which fortunately turned out to be no danger to either the crew or the passengers, had the negative side effect that the arrival was significantly delayed. In accordance with the principle of "safety first", the cockpit crew acted according to regulations and rectified the "defect" as soon as it was discovered. 

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Mayotte: EWA Air with new livery and first Boeing 737

Jan Gruber 28 December 2021 08:34

EWA Air, the regional subsidiary of the French airline Air Austral, was previously a pure turboprop operator. That is now changing, as the first Boeing 737-800, the F-ONGA, is being added to the fleet. The aircraft was delivered to the parent company in 2010 and now bears the colors of the subsidiary. The airline EWA Air is based in Mayotte and has previously operated two ATR72-600 turboprop aircraft. In the past, the company, founded in 2013, also had other props. Now the jet age is being ushered in, as the F-ONGA is the first Boeing 737-800 to join EWA Air. With the introduction of the medium-haul jet, a revised livery was also introduced.

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