| Schengen expands |
This month the Schengen agreement expands to include a number of other EU countries. These will be:
Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Malta Poland Slovakia Slovenia
These countries as of December 21st will be be opening their sea and land borders to other Schengen members, and from May 2008 will open their airports.
This bring the total number of countries observing the Schengen travel zone to 25. ...
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| Emirates to Cape Town |
Emirates Airline will launch daily flights to Cape Town, effective 30th March 2008.
Emirates flight EK 770 will depart Dubai at 08:15 hours, arriving in Cape Town at 16:25 hours. Return flight EK 771 will take off from Cape Town International Airport at 18:10 hours, touching down at Dubai International Airport at 06:00 hours the following day.
On the route, Emirates will operate its Airbus A330-200 in a three class configuration of 12 First, 42 Business and 183 Economy Class se ...
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| Qatar Airways to Ahmedabad |
Doha-based Qatar Airways serves Ahmedabad with daily flights, non-stop from Doha using an Airbus A320 in a two-class configuration of 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in Economy.
Doha Ahmedabad 22:20 03:45 +1day daily
Ahmedabad Doha 04:45 06:00 daily
The airline offers an excellent choice of connections for passengers from India to destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, North America and, even the Far East with a modern fleet of 59 aircraft.
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| Paris Star Alliance Lounge to open in spring 2008 |
Star Alliance and Aéroports de Paris have signed an agreement which will see the construction of a Star Alliance Lounge in Terminal 1 at Paris' Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport.
Under this accord, which is part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two parties in March 2005, Aéroports de Paris will select the space and be responsible for building the shell of the lounge, while Star Alliance will be in charge of the interior design and fitting as well as the day-to-day ru ...
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| Malaysia Airlines increases Australian flights on strong demand |
Malaysia Airlines will offer 52 weekly flights to Australia, adding more flights to Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide due to strong customer demand from December 2007 to February 2008.
The national carrier will add 2 direct flights to Brisbane, and one additional flight to Perth and Adelaide to cater to the peak travel season.
Effective 10 December 2007 to 14 February 2008, Malaysia Airlines will offer 2 direct flights to Brisbane every Monday and Wednesday. MH7371 will depart Kuala ...
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| Emirates expands OZ flights |
Emirates today announced that its services to Australia would grow to 70 a week, providing much-needed capacity to cater to the increasing demand from around the airline's network.
Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney will all receive additional flights, new aircraft and capacity involving the newest and most luxurious aircraft in the sky.
Emirates announced it will:
. Grow services from the current 49 flights a week to 56 flights a week during 2008;
. Increase services to ...
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| SAS to launch direct routes to New Delhi and San Francisco |
In autumn 2008, New Delhi in India and San Francisco in the US will be introduced to the traffic program.
India is a market experiencing strong growth and demand for flight connections is increasing. SAS will initially offer four non-stop flights per week between Copenhagen and New Delhi from November 2008.
The Airbus 340 to be used on the New Delhi and San Francisco flights has approximately 245 seats in three classes: Business Class, with Business Sleepers (chairs that recli ...
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| Air Arabia to open second hub in Morroco |
Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, announced today that it will establish its second hub in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, providing the Sharjah-based with a platform from which to reach into the wider Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) market.
This announcement follows the signing of a management agreement between Air Arabia and Regional Air Lines, the leading private carrier in Morocco.
Under the terms of the agreement, A ...
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| Swiss Pride 08 date announced |
Swiss National Pride will take place in the city of Bienne on June 21st and 22nd.
On saturday the traditional parade will turn around the city centre.
Bienne is less than two hours from Basel or Zürich.
Switzerland is the only country in the world were a civil union for gay and lesbian has been approved in a national referendum. ...
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| Lufthansa second flight to Dubai |
Lufthansa has introduced a second flight to Dubai from Frankfurt.
Lufthansa also operated one daily flight from Munich.
New flight schedule:
Frankfurt Dubai 18:00 03:05+ 1 day
Dubai Frankfurt 10:4014:40
New flight is operated with an Airbus A343. ...
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| Buenos Aires Pride 2007 |
Thousands of LGBTIQ porteños celbrates on this last Saturday with the annual gay pride parade.
From 3pm people gathered to Plaza de Mayo where a mega stage has been the centre of the event.
From 6pm the parade took to the streets of Buenos Aires to end in front of the argentinian congress.
LGBTIQ local community ask equal rights and marriage to the politicians of the country.
A selection of best pictures is now available in our photo section.
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| China Southern Airlines in SkyTeam |
Today China Southern Airlines officially became the 11th full member of SkyTeam, making the alliance the first to welcome a carrier from the mainland of China. China is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world and the addition of China Southern allows SkyTeam to provide its customers around the world with greater travel options to one of the world’s top tourist destinations.
With the addition of China Southern Airlines, SkyTeam now serves approximately 428 million annua ...
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| Air Canada expands Canada-Germany services with Lufthansa |
Air Canada today announced a major expansion of service between Canada and Germany in cooperation with its Star Alliance partner, Lufthansa, that features new non-stop flights between Ottawa-Frankfurt and Toronto-Dusseldorf, as well as the addition of a second daily non-stop flight between Calgary-Frankfurt.
By summer 2008, together the two Star Alliance partners will operate up to 11 flights per day in each direction between five cities in Canada and three cities in Germany, represent ...
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| Lufthansa New route: Frankfurt – Bristol |
The non-stop flights will start on 30 March 2008 with the introduction of the 2008 summer timetable and will be operated year-round.
The new service will make Lufthansa’s route network in Britain even denser. Bristol will become the seventh Lufthansa destination in the UK market – after London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Newquay. Lufthansa now operates 455 flights a week to the UK, and the new route to Bristol will add a further 21 weekly flights. ...
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| Dragonair in oneworld |
As a oneworld affiliate member, Dragonair now offers the alliance's full range of services and benefits. This means its frequent flyers can from today earn and redeem mileage awards on all other oneworld carriers.
Dragonair's network - which covers more destinations in Mainland China, at 19 in total, than any other airline not based there, with some 400 flights a week - is now also covered by oneworld's extensive range of alliance fares.
Twelve of those Mainland China destinat ...
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| GB Airways and Loganair to cease being oneworld affiliates |
oneworld affiliates GB Airways and Loganair will withdraw from the global alliance, following the ending of their franchise agreements with British Airways.
GB Airways will withdraw from oneworld on 30 March 2008, following its purchase by easyJet.
British Airways itself will start flying on a number of the routes flown by GB Airways - to Faro and Malaga from both London Heathrow and Gatwick, and to Gibraltar, Ibiza, Palma and Tunis from London Gatwick alone.
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| Bangkok Pride this weekend |
Bangkok Pride starts this weekend with eleven days of events to celebrate the LGBTIQ community.
Unfortunately this year no parade in the streets of Bangkok due to lack of sponsors and political reasons.
Hope to see the parade back in 2008.
The 2006 parade was definitly a success in terms of numbers of floats and crowd. ...
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| Codesharing between Lufthansa and EgyptAir to begin on 28 October |
Lufthansa and EgyptAir will begin cooperating at the start of the winter timetable on 28 October, only four-and-a-half months after the two airlines signed a codesharing agreement.
In future, all the flights offered by both carriers between Germany and Egypt will be operated with two flight numbers. Codesharing will apply on all routes from Frankfurt and Munich to Cairo as well as on flights from Frankfurt to Alexandria. Further codesharing services to tourist centres in Egypt and Nort ...
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| Delta to London Heathrow |
As part of an expanded partnership announced earlier today by Delta Air Lines and SkyTeam partner Air France, customers now can book nonstop Delta flights from the United States to three popular airports in England and France where they previously did not have access. The routes are:
Atlanta to London-Heathrow (once daily, effective March 29, 2008);
New York-JFK to London-Heathrow (twice daily, effective March 29, 2008);
New York-JFK to Paris-Orly (four times weekly, effectiv ...
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| Swiss Winter new services |
Delhi becomes SWISS’s second destination (after Mumbai) in the rapidly-growing Indian market. The new route is a clear response to rising market demand for direct service between Switzerland and Delhi, among business travellers in particular but also in the tourism sector.
Strong increases in demand have also been seen for service to and from China, especially among the business community. Indeed, China is Switzerland’s second-biggest Asian trading partner. That demand will be met fro ...
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