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Rosaviatsia recommends Tatarstan Airlines be grounded

Tatarstan Airlines (Tatarstan Aircompany) (Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia) is still operating. However Rosaviatsia, the Russian federal air transportation agency that monitors airline safety activities, has recommended the airline be grounded due to alleged breaches in training and crew rest times according to The Moscow News. The Boeing 737-500 that crashed at Kazan on November 17 was attempting a go around when it crashed directly into ground killing all 50 passengers and crew members on board. The crew may have not been properly trained and apparently lost control of the aircraft.

The airline issued this statement (translated from Russian):

In response to an emerging wave of disinformation, Tatarstan Airlines officially informs everyone all flights are operating as normal.

The Federal Agency is only recommending the AOC be revoked. In the case of a formal decision to suspend the activities of the airline, all passengers will be notified in advance.

Meanwhile the airline’s board of directors fired the current CEO Aksan Giniyatullin due to the November 17 crash according to The Moscow Times.

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Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Tatarstan has been adding newer Airbus A319s. A319-112 VQ-BMM (msn 3171) is pictured at Palma de Mallorca.

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Iberia Express to add Madrid-Stockholm service, will start repainting its fleet

Iberia Express (Madrid) will add a new route linking the Madrid hub and Stockholm (Arlanda) on March 30, 2014. The new route will be operated with Airbus A320s two days a week per Airline Route.

In other news, taking the lead from its parent Iberia, Iberia Express will begin to repaint it fleet in this new Iberia-like color scheme. The airline issued this statement (translated from Spanish):

“Starting this week, we renew our brand to adapt to the new brand architecture of Iberia while maintaining our identity: dynamism, agility and proximity.

Besides changing the logo, we will replace our visual identity by creating a style based on freshness, flexibility and photographic style.

The incorporation of the new image will be performed gradually in all the graphic elements of the company.”

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com (all other images by Iberia Express). Iberia Express’ Airbus A320-214 EC-JSK (msn 2807) taxies at Palma de Mallorca in the special Tenerife – Salmes Cup 2013 promotional color scheme.

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Ryanair to open its second Belgian base at Brussels and a new base at Rome Fiumicino, offers to feed Alitalia’s long-range flights

Ryanair (Dublin) grew quickly by serving under-served, sometimes remote airports near major metropolitan airports. That strategy seems to be changing as it enters two new major airport markets.

Ryanair today announced it will open its second Belgian base (62 bases in total) at Brussels (Zaventem) in February 2014 with four based aircraft and 10 new routes to Alicante, Barcelona, Ibiza, Lisbon, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Rome, Valencia and Venice.

Previously Ryanair had served the Brussels area via under-served and cheaper Charleroi Airport, 29 miles south of central Brussels. The company will continue to serve both Belgian airports.

10 NEW ZAVENTEM ROUTES

Alicante	14 weekly
Barcelona	42 weekly
Ibiza	14 weekly
Lisbon	28 weekly
Malaga	14 weekly
Palma	14 weekly
Porto	14 weekly
Rome	28 weekly
Valencia	14 weekly
Venice	14 weekly

In other news, Ryanair, also announced it will be allocating six Boeing 737-800 aircraft to a new base in Rome Fiumicino Airport, and launching three new Southern Italy domestic routes with multiple daily flights to Catania and Palermo (in Sicily) and Lamezia (in Calabria) with these daily flights commencing on December 18. Ryanair also confirmed the six aircraft allocated to this new Rome Fiumicino base will also offer daily business flights to Brussels (Zaventum) and Barcelona (El Prat).

These three new domestic routes from Rome Fiumicino will bring to nine the number of domestic routes served by Ryanair from Rome, (Alghero, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Comiso and Trapani are already served from Rome Ciampino). Ryanair confirmed that over the next 12 months, it will move many of these Italian domestic routes from Ciampino to Fiumicino which will be its main airport for domestic services to/from Rome. This will free up slots at Rome Ciampino thereby enabling Ryanair to add more international flights and more new routes to its schedule at Rome Ciampino, the preferred Rome airport for travellers to/from international destinations.

Ryanair also confirmed that it will increase these daily frequencies if Alitalia cuts back. Ryanair has also offered to use its low fare flights to feed into Alitalia’s international network to/from Rome Fiumicino. Ryanair has for example offered to carry Alitalia passengers at one-way fares from just €50 which will enable Alitalia to significantly reduce the costs of its feed traffic on these domestic routes to Rome Fiumicino. Ryanair has also requested a meeting with Alitalia to examine any other opportunities which may exist for co-operating with and assisting Alitalia in its current restructuring.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Ryanair’s Boeing 737-8AS WL EI-EMO (msn 40283) in the Podkarpackie Travel special scheme taxies at Palma de Mallorca.

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BA Cityflyer orders one more Embraer 190

BA CityFlyer (British Airways) (Manchester and London City Airport), British Airways’ wholly owned regional subsidiary, and Embraer announced today the acquisition of one additional Embraer 190 jet. This firm order will be included in Embraer’s 2013 fourth quarter backlog. The E-Jet will be operated from the Company’s main operating base at London City Airport (LCY).

The new E190 will be configured with 98 Elite seats.

Copyright Photo: Javier Rodriguez/AirlinersGallery.com. Embraer ERJ 190-100SR G-LCYO (msn 19000430) approaches Palma de Mallorca for landing.

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SAS announces 34 new summer routes

Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) today announced 34 new peak summer routes for the summer 2014 timetable.

In 2013, SAS launched more than 50 new domestic and European routes, as well as the popular Copenhagen-San Francisco route. With the announcement today, adding more than 40 new routes for 2014, SAS has then launched nearly 100 routes in the past two years.

New routes from Sweden:

Stockholm to: Pisa (21 Jun-9 Aug), Olbia (21 Jun-9 Aug), Napoli (21 Jun-9 Aug),
Chania (24 Jun-14 Aug), Bristol (30 Jun-15 Aug), Sarajevo (21 Jun-30 Aug),
Bastia (26 Jun-7 Aug), Biarritz 24 Jun-8 Aug), Bodö (29 Jun-17 Aug)

Gothenburg to: Palma de Mallorca (2 Jul-13 Aug), Athens (1 Jul-5 Aug), Alicante
(30 Jun-1 Nov), Pula 1 Jul – 5 Aug), Berlin (30 Jun-15 Aug)

New routes from Norway:

Oslo to: Olbia (4 Jul-8 Aug), Venice (2 Jul-6 Aug), Pisa (28 Jun-9 Aug), Larnaca
(1 Jul-12 Aug), Biarritz (1 Jul-12 Aug)

Kristiansand to: Split (3 Jul-7 Aug)

Stavanger to: Alanya (2 Jul-6 Aug)

Bergen to: Alanya (2 Jul-6 Aug), Billund (28 Jun-16 Aug)

New routes from Denmark:

Copenhagen to: Pisa (28 Jun-9 Aug), Napoli (1 Jul-7 Aug), Faro (2 Jul-6 Aug),
Chania (30 Jun-11 Aug), Bastia (2 Jul-6 Aug), Montpellier (28 Jun-9 Aug)

Billund to: Alanya (3 Jul-7 Aug), Split (2 Jul-6 Aug), Nice (2 Jul-6 Aug)

Aalborg to: Split (1 Jul-5 Aug), Nice (1 Jul-5 Aug)

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-86N LN-RGF (msn 38038) taxies at the Med destination of Palma de Mallorca.

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SAS and Apollo renew their relationship for 2014

Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) and travel organization Apollo are expanding their relationship for the next summer season. SAS issued this statement:

SAS and Apollo continue their long working relationship, signing an agreement for the summer season once again. The agreement is for 2014 and involves SAS flying Apollo’s customers from 17 different locations in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It is worth SEK 910 million.

It has been confirmed that SAS and Apollo will continue their partnership, which goes back many years. Apollo has chosen SAS as their main external airline partner, alongside their own airline company Novair. Important factors for Apollo during the procurement process included the fact that SAS provides a flexible fleet and has safe and reliable production with good punctuality.

This partnership allows Apollo to offer summer departures from 17 different locations in Sweden, Norway and Denmark to more than 20 destinations in the world. The cities where flights will depart from in Sweden are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Scandinavian Airlines-SAS:

FlyNonstop ends operations and files for bankruptcy

FlyNonstop (Kristiansand) suddenly stopped flying yesterday (October 29) and declared bankruptcy. The short-lived airline only commenced operations on April 25, 2013.

The airline issued this statement:

We regret to announce that of today (October 29) we have sent a petition for bankruptcy of FlyNonstop AS. This means that all our flights as of Tuesday, 10/29/2013 at 06:00 have been cancelled.

All customers must now contact their credit card company / bank with ticket reference and payment receipt to get their ticket costs refunded.

We are now contacting our customers via email and SMS to provide advice and guidance on how to deal with rebooking / purchase of new tickets for their journey.

With the help of SAS we have been able to provide our customers (with a ticket reference from FlyNonstop) the opportunity to purchase new tickets at a special adjusted price from SAS, provided that there are available seats on the desired travel date and destination. SAS have many frequencies, large network and flies to all our destinations. The possibility that the majority of our customers will find a suitable ticket alternative to the original itinerary will be very good.

SAS will handle all requests and aim for a special price for all FlyNonstop customers. Please call:

Phone: +47 915 05 400,

or locally to Kjevik Airport in Kristiansand on

Phone: +47 957 19 478

The Company (SAS) is not responsible for the tickets already purchased from FlyNonstop, or any other obligations in the light of FlyNonstop’s cancellations.

We will once again lament the burden placed on you, the passengers, but unfortunately we at FlyNonstop could no longer be able to meet the company’s obligations. We therefore realize that we had to close down the operation.

This is a sad day for you, our customers, and for us at FlyNonstop.

Note: Please click on the FlyNonstop category (below right column) for all previous news entries and stories about the carrier.

Copyright Photo: Javier Rodriguez/AirlinersGallery.com. FlyNonstop did not have much leverage. With the winter season coming on, revenues were down and the single Embraer ERJ 190-100LR (PH-FNS) (man 19000616) was operated by Denim Air for FlyNonstop. PH-FNS is pictured pushing back at Palma de Mallorca, a frequent destination for the carrier.

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Iberia Express to operate Madrid-Berlin Tegel flights starting on October 27

Iberia Express (Madrid) will start a new route on October 27 between the Madrid hub and Berlin (Tegel). The flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-211 EC-FLP (msn 266) taxies to the runway at Palma de Mallorca.

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FlyNonstop to fly from Bodø, Norway to London City Airport

FlyNonstop (Kristiansand) has announced it will add a new route from Bodø, Norway to London (City Airport) starting on October 28. The new route will be operated weekly. This will be the first international route from Bodø and is away from FlyNonstop’s base of Kristiansand in southern Norway.

Bodø is located just north of the Arctic Circle and is the largest city in Nordland County and also is the second largest city in northern Norway.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Operated by Denim Air, Embraer ERJ 190-100LR PH-FNS (msn 19000616) taxies past the camera at Palma de Mallorca.

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Travel Service Airlines finalizes its order for three Boeing 737 MAX 8s

Boeing (Chicago) and Travel Service Airlines (Prague) have finalized an order for three 737 MAX 8s, valued at $301.5 million at list prices. The Czech Republic-based carrier originally announced a commitment to purchase the 737 MAX in June during the 2013 Paris Air Show. This announcement brings the total number of orders to date for the 737 MAX to 1,498 airplanes.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Travel Service Airlines’ Boeing 737-8Q8 C-GVVH (msn 35275) at Palma de Mallorca this summer still wears the registration used by Sunwing Airlines during the winter. Normally the airliner wears OK-TVH with Travel Service. The new 737 MAX 8s will expand the Boeing fleet.

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