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Aurora Airlines to add the Vladivostok – Beijing route

Aurora Airlines will add twice-weekly service linking Vladivostok, Russia and Beijing with Airbus A319 aircraft starting on January 20.

Aurora Airlines is a subsidiary of Aeroflot. The carrier is named after the Russian cruiser Aurora.

Its head office is in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin.

Top Copyright Photo (all others by Aurora): Aurora (Russia) Airbus A319-111 VP-BWL (msn 2243) SEN (Keith Burton). Image: 932471.

Aurora Airlines aircraft slide show:

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easyJet to add two new routes from Edinburgh, wants to double the number of German passengers

easyJet (UK) is adding two new routes from Edinburgh. Flights from Edinburgh to Jersey and Seville are now on sale

Flights to Seville take off from March 26, 2018 operating twice a week throughout the summer season.

Flights to Jersey take off from March 31, 2018 operating twice a week throughout the summer season.

easyJet now offers 40 routes from Edinburgh.an travellers

In other news, the company wants to more than double the number of passengers in Germany to 18 million in 2018. This goal comes after taking over the former Berlin Tegel operations of Airberlin.

easyJet (UK) aircraft slide show:

easyJet starts Berlin Tegel operations

easyJet on Friday, January 5, 2018 launched its new operations at Berlin (Tegel), partially filling the void left by the demise of Airberlin.

easyJet is adding 19 destinations from TXL including four domestic destination – Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart.

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12 aircraft are now based at TXL.

Top Copyright Photo (all others by easyJet): easyJet (easyJet.com) (UK) Airbus A319-111 G-EZEZ (msn 2360) LIS (Pedro Baptista). Image: 909009.

Routes from TXL:

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Germania reacts to the Swiss court decision against its lawsuit against Hotelplan

Germania issued this statement on December 20, 2017:

On November 28, 2017, the Zurich commercial court dismissed the action filed by Germania Flug AG against Hotelplan. Germania now has filed a complaint regarding this resolution with the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne.

In the litigation, Germania had contested Hotelplan’s termination after only six months of the three-year charter agreement Hotelplan had entered into with Germania. Hotelplan alleged that Germania had operated fewer than 95% of the flights on its 2015 summer schedule with its own aircraft. Germania asserted that the termination was void because Hotelplan was not allowed to count flights which were not operated due to a lack of suitable slots towards the 95% threshold (“slot restriction”). According to the commercial court, the action had to be dismissed on the following grounds: “Even under the assumption that a slot restriction had been agreed upon, Germania was not able to explain why no suitable slots had been obtained.” In the brief subsidiary reasoning it was stated: “No slot restriction had been agreed upon.”

Germania does not share the commercial court’s opinion. It remains undisputed that the matter is complex and the file related to the suit is extensive. However, the strikingly brief decision shows that several facts and arguments put forward by Germania were acknowledged insufficiently by the commercial court.

Most of the considerations on which the resolution is based disregard the parties’ pleadings. Hence, key portions of the resolution are built on doubtful premises. Germania now has brought the decision before the next higher level for review and trusts that the Federal Court will take all the pleadings into consideration in its decision.

According to Wikipedia:

The airline was founded in August 2014 in cooperation with the German airline Germania,^[4] who also lend its corporate design, and Swiss leisure company Hotelplan with the aim to operate leisure charter flights using the brand Holiday Jet. Following the inaugural flight on March 26, 2015, for the summer 2015 and winter 2015/2016, Germania Flug operated from Zürich to 17 leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa.

However, from November 2015 Germania Flug stopped its collaboration with HolidayJet and operates soley under its own brand name since.

easyJet to launch 20 new routes next summer

easyJet (UK) has announced it will launch 20 new routes from seven of its UK bases for summer 2018.

easyJet will be launching new routes from Belfast, Bristol, London Gatwick, Liverpool, London Luton, Manchester and Southend, to destinations such as Naples, Seville and Bordeaux.

Within these new routes are four entirely new destinations for easyJet: Ancona, Genoa, Nea Anchialos and Reus. Passengers can now enjoy more of Europe’s beautiful Greek, Spanish and Italian destinations for their 2018 summer holidays.

Many of the new routes will be as frequent as 7 days a week, and will be operated on easyJet’s A319 and A320 aircraft.

The 20 new routes from the UK are:

Belfast to Isle of Man from £22.56*

Belfast to Naples from £18.70*

Belfast to Valencia from £26.7*0

Bristol to Genoa from £26.70*

Bristol to Seville from £28.72*

London Gatwick to Alcona from £32.76*

London Gatwick to Nea Anchialos from £50.94*

Liverpool to Dalaman from £26.70*

Liverpool to Palermo from £26.70*

Liverpool to Pula from £24.68*

London Luton to Dalaman from £34.78*

London Luton to Genoa from £32.76*

London Luton to Palermo from £32.76*

London Luton to Reus from £32.76*

London Luton to Thessaloniki from £32.76*

Manchester to Genoa from £26.70*

London Southend to Bordeaux from £26.70*

London Southend to Dubrovnik from £28.72*

London Southend to Prague from £28.72*

London Southend to Pula from £26.70*

*Fares per person, one way, based on two people travelling on the same booking.

easyJet teams up with Loganair for booking flights

easyJet made this announcement on December 7, 2017:

easyJet has announced that Loganair flights are now on sale at easyJet.com as part of its ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ product, which launched in September.

‘Worldwide by easyJet’ is the first global airline connections service by a European low fares airline, which also offers stand-alone flights from partner airlines with complementary networks.

Booking Loganair flights via the easyJet website will enable easyJet passengers to easily book onward flights – e.g. from Glasgow and Edinburgh with Loganair to Scotland’s Highlands and Islands, including the Glasgow – Barra link, the world’s only scheduled service to a beach airport. ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ provides partner airlines with access to one of the biggest travel websites in Europe.

The launch in September was a first step and easyJet will now continue to sign up and integrate other airlines with the ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ product.

Air Malta to start services to Casablanca, Venice and St. Petersburg next summer

Air Malta has announced new nonstop services to three destinations; Casablanca (twice-weekly), Venice (twice-weekly, March 26, 2018) and St Petersburg (twice-weekly, March 29, 2018) for the summer of 2018 starting in March 2018.

easyJet has been granted slots at Frankfurt

easyJet (UK) has been granted slots at Frankfurt (FRA) according to Fraport and Reuters. This is a result of the takeover of Airberlin’s Berlin (Tegel) (TGL) operations. The slots are likely to be use for services between FRA and TGL.

Air Malta to add five new routes for the summer 2018 season

Air Malta will start operating a twice weekly scheduled service to the city of Malaga every Monday and Friday from March 26, 2018. This is the first time that the Maltese airline is introducing scheduled services to the city and through this route, Air Malta will be resuming its services to Spain.

The flight schedule will operate as follows:

Monday

KM590	Dep.	Malta	19:35	Arr.	Malaga	22:30
KM591	Dep.	Malaga	23:30	Arr.	Malta	02:15

Friday

KM590	Dep.	Malta	05:25	Arr.	Malaga	08:20
KM591	Dep.	Malaga	09:10	Arr.	Malta	11:55

Air Malta will also be operating twice-weekly summer service to Lisbon (effective March 25, 2018), and weekly service to St. Petersburg (March 30, 2018) and Stockholm (Arlanda) (May 1, 2018) and three weekly flights to Venice (March 26, 2018).

Sky Airline unveils a new livery and becomes a LCC carrier

Sky Airline (Santiago) on March 15, 2017 unveiled its new livery and revised brand. The green color of its early years has been kept, while the blue has been replaced by a new violet color.

The new concept includes a green “arrow” (above) in the “K” that is incorporated on the horizontal stabilizer. The modified K letter is always facing forward with the green arrow portion. All Ks in the logo are modified except the one on the left side of the fuselage (below).

The first Airbus A320 (CC-ABV) in the new livery will be unveiled in April after it is painted by Coopesa. The airline will also issue new uniforms for its employees.

The Chilean carrier starting today is also reinventing itself as a low-cost carrier.

All images courtesy of SKY Airline via ModoCharlie.

Alvaro Romero reporting from Santiago, Chile.

The current livery: