Tag Archives: Gunter Mayer

World Airways to operate a Boeing 747-400 freighter for Cargolux

World Airways (Atlanta), a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings, Inc., has signed an agreement with Cargolux Airlines International (Luxembourg) to operate one Boeing 747-400 freighter on a full-time basis for air cargo service beginning October 2010 through June 2011.

Cargolux currently operates 15 747-400Fs.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. Boeing 747-4H6 (SF) N741WA (msn 25702) stops at Nuremberg.

Hamburg International removes “10 Yahre” titles from the tail of A319 D-AHIK

Hamburg International (Hamburginternational.de) (Hamburg) has removed the special “10 Yahre” (10 Years) titles and logo from the tail of its Airbus A319-111 D-AHIK (msn 3560) creating this new livery with the regular tail logo. It is unclear if this scheme will be adopted by the fleet or if this will remain a one-off scheme.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. D-AHIK poses beautifully for the camera in Nuremberg.

Airberlin’s pilots vote for a three hour strike

Airberlin’s (Berlin-Tegel) pilots have voted to strike for three hours according to this published report in the New York Times.

News link:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/air-berlin-pilots-vote-to-strike/

China Airlines to add Taipei-London service on March 28

China Airlines (Taipei) will add new service to London (Heathrow) from Taipei starting on March 28. The new route will be operated with 276-seat Airbus A340-300s and will operate three days a week.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. Airbus A340-313X B-18001 (msn 402) climbs away from Frankfurt.

Eurowings to retire its last BAe 146 on March 22

Eurowings (Dortmund) is planning to retire its last BAe 146 on March 22 with flight LH 921 between Nuremberg and Frankfurt.

Meanwhile the company is preparing to slash its fleet and payroll. Approximatelyย 600 to 700 jobs will be cut (out of 1,257 employees). Eurowings will phase out 18 CRJ200s and two CRJ700s. The first CRJ200 was retired in November 2009.

News link:

www.thelocal.de/money/20100119-24683.html

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer.

KLM Cityhopper to retire the last Fokker 50 on March 27

KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam) will retire its last Fokker F.27 Mk. 050 (Fokker 50) from revenue service on March 27.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. Fokker F.27 Mk. 050 PH-LXJ (msn 20270) stops at Nuremberg.

China Airlines to start service to London on March 28

China Airlines (Taipei) will commence Airbus A340-300 service to London starting on March 26. The route will be operated three times a week.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. Airbus A340-313X B-18801 (msn 402) climbs away from Frankfurt.

Syrian claims it is being blocked from Airbus order

Syrian Air (Damascus) through Syria’s transport minister said yesterday (December 28) the United States has rejected a request by France to lift economics sanctions on the sale of Airbus aircraft to Syria. The Obama Administration has stated it wants to improve relations with Damascus. Airbus had offered to lease aircraft to Syrian Air while awaiting the results of the French request according to this article. The U.S. government has previously accused Syria of supporting terrorism and imposed sanctions in 2004 which prohibits Syrian Air flights from entering U.S. air space and banning the export of all U.S. products to Syria except food and medicine. The A320 for example includes U.S.-made products. Syrian Air is now talking to Tupolev about leasing two aircraft.

Syrian Air operates a diverse and aging Boeing and Russian fleet (some awaiting parts) but it also operates seven Airbus A320s.

Link to the full article:

www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=552&fArticleId=5297909

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer. Airbus A320-232 YK-AKD (msn 1076) taxies at Frankfurt in the 1998 livery.

Eurowings says goodbye to BAe 146-200 D-AJET “A-JET”

Eurowings (Nuremberg) is gradually replacing its BAe 146-200 and 146-300 fleet with newer Bombardier CRJ900s. On Thursday (November 26) the company said goodbye at the Nuremberg base to its long-time BAe 146-200 D-AJET (msn E2201) known in the company as “A-JET”. This picture is taken on the ramp at NUE picturing D-AJET heading to runway 28 for its delivery flight to Star Peru (Lima). The aircraft was flying to Keflavik via Glasgow that day. After an overnight crew rest stop, the second day would see the aircraft flying via Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) and Iqaluit (Canada) for a second overnight stop at Montreal (Trudeau). The third day the airliner was due to stop at Orlando, continuing on to San Josรฉ (Costa Rica). The last phase of the delivery flight is planned to go via Chiclayo (Peru) onward to the Lima base with a planned arrival date of November 29, 2009. Note the HF antenna on the top fuselage for communications over the North Atlantic. After being delivered on March 20, 1995 the dependable airliner operated for over 14 years with Eurowings. It is pictured in the Lufthansa Regional 2003 colors.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer.

SAS Norge to cut some flights and routes

A nice image of SAS Norge's Boeing 737-705 LN-TUK (msn 29096) at Oslo (Gardermoen). Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer.

A nice image of SAS Norge's Boeing 737-705 LN-TUK (msn 29096) at Oslo (Gardermoen). Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer.

Scandinavian Airlines Norge (SAS Norge) (a subsidiary of Scandinavian Airlines-SAS) (Oslo) will cut some flights and routes along with some personnel. However parent SAS Group will still maintain a domestic network in Norway. Effective yesterday (September 30) the SAS Norge division is now operating under the SAS AOC. Scandinavian Airlines Norge is the result of the merger of SAS Norway and Braathens. The airline was first known as SAS Braathens, but changed its name to Scandinavian Airlines Norge in 2007.

News link:

www.norwaypost.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21581