Flights
Ryanair announces £5 Tour de France seat sale
To mark the end of this year’s Tour de France, Ryanair has launched an amazing £5 seat sale on a number of routes to France. The £5 seats (which include taxes and charges), can be booked on Ryanair.com up to midnight tonight, Friday 25th July, subject to availability, for travel between 1st September and 31st October 2008.
Air Southwest supports major surf festival
Low-fare regional airline Air Southwest has announced its support for this year’s White Stuff Surf Relief Festival taking place this weekend (26 July 2008). The largest operator of flights from Newquay Cornwall Airport is the official airline partner for the event at Watergate Bay in Cornwall and is sponsoring a team taking part.
A drink before bed
With continuing security restrictions on liquids, Austrian airlines now offers all long-haul passengers their personal 0.5 litre water bottle as they board. Lucky Business Class passengers can also opt to have their ‘beds’ turned down a service normally restricted to First Class on other airlines.
Real plane, real people, real celebrity service
Award winning leisure airline Monarch will be sharing its 40 years of aviation experience with a host of famous faces from Monday 14 July, as its sets about training a group of celebrities, who must measure up to Monarch’s standards and take on roles across the airline including cabin crew, check-in and ticket desk.
Monarch gets set for busiest summer ever
Award-winning low fares airline Monarch is preparing to fly a record number of passengers as the schools break up for summer with 250,000 passengers booked to travel at the beginning of the school holidays*.
Spanair decides to sell Club Vacaciones
Spanair has made the decision to sell Club Vacaciones, which has been linked to the airline company for more than 20 years. This sale is part of the business strategy implemented by Spanair and SAS Group, to focus on the airline industry. Spanair owns at present 100% Club Vacaciones share capital.
Spanair announces a feasibility plan
Spanair's Management has announced a Feasibility Plan to face the current crisis that the airline industry is going through as a consequence of the high fuel prices and the decrease of demand. In order to ensure the future profitability of the Company, the plan implies reduction of capacity and staff.
Egyptair becomes 21st member of Star Alliance
At a ceremony in Cairo today, Egyptair officially became the 21st member of Star Alliance bringing with it 1,624 weekly flights to 69 destinations around the world. Egyptair is the nation's flag carrier, and will strengthen the alliance's network throughout Africa and the Middle East.
SWISS adjusts fuel surcharges again
The prices of crude oil and jet fuel have seen further steep rises to new record levels over the last few weeks. A number of major European airlines have already increased their fuel surcharges in the light of these developments.
15th SWISS Airbus A340 takes off
SWISS adds its 15th Airbus A340 to its long-haul fleet this month. The aircraft, which bears the registration HB-JMN, took off for Johannesburg for its inaugural flight. The entry-into-service of this latest A340 concludes the expansion of the SWISS Airbus fleet that was embarked upon in November 2006.
More flights in SWISS’ winter schedules
SWISS will be further expanding its services in Europe with the start of the new winter schedules on October 26, to the benefit of travellers to and from London City, Istanbul, Valencia and Budapest. SWISS will also be operating Airbus A340 equipment on its Zurich-Dubai-Muscat route from mid-December onwards.
SWISS acquires Servair to operate as Swiss Private Aviation
SWISS acquired Zurich-based Servair Private Charter AG this month, July 17. Servair will henceforth be operated as Swiss Private Aviation AG, a fully-owned subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines AG. The new acquisition should establish the SWISS Group in the business aviation sector and provide a platform for operating the Lufthansa Private Jet fleet.
TAP and TV Globo begin partnership for in-flight content
From the start of June TAP passengers flying between Portugal and Brazil can now watch TV Globo International programming during flights. The two companies have set up a partnership that includes the series “1808 – The Court in Brazil”, a program distributed by TV Globo International to be shown between June and December.
TAP inaugurates new Premium Space at Lisbon Airport
TAP has inaugurated its new Premium Space (Premium Customer Centre), an innovative multifaceted structure where Classe Executiva (Business Class) customers or Victoria Program gold card holders and TAP Corporate card holders are now attended to in an exclusive zone within Lisbon airport.
Accor Hospitality & TAP set up global partnership
Accor Hospitality and TAP have celebrated a partnership that enables the 750 thousand TAP Victoria Program members to earn air miles each time they stay at one of more than 1500 hotels in more than one hundred different countries. This agreement includes the Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel and Mercure hotel networks.