Smartwings is reducing its new Prague to Brindisi route. Starting in July, the carrier's reservation system only lists Thursday departures. Initially, the route operated twice weekly. The last Monday flight will be next week. Prepared By: Martin Bernict
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On Sunday, June 16, the final summer addition for Smartwings arrived in Warsaw: a Boeing 737-800 from Sunwing Airlines, registered as C-GLRN (built in 2017). The Smartwings group now boasts a fleet of 53 aircraft: 3 Airbus A320s, 2 B737-700s, 36 B737-800s, 2 B737-900ERs, and 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. This count excludes the Cessna aircraft operated by sister carrier UGJet. On Thursday, June 6, the last Czech aircraft leased to Sunwing Airlines returned from Canada. This Boeing 737-800, registered as OK-TVL, arrived from Toronto via Keflavik still bearing its Canadian registration, C-GKVL. Six Czech aircraft are based in Cologne, flying summer routes for Eurowings. These are OK-TSE, OK-TSF, OK-TSO, OK-TVT, OK-TVU, and OK-TVV aircraft. Recently, Smartwings has been dealing with numerous flight delays. Passengers on the Saturday charter flight QS1118 from Prague to Zakynthos did not arrive on the Greek island until Sunday, with a 23-hour delay. The delay was e...
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Last year's visit by Mongolia's head of diplomacy is bearing fruit as Mongolian carrier Eznis Airways has begun selling tickets for direct flights from Prague to Ulaanbaatar. Starting soon, the airline will operate flights to Mongolia's capital every Wednesday and Saturday using an Airbus A330 with a capacity of 256 passengers. Eznis Airways has been in the regular transport market since 2006, starting with smaller aircraft like Saab 340 (illustration photo). Its fleet includes two Boeing 737-700 aircraft, which are currently leased to Air Peace in Africa, and one Airbus A330-200, which has been parked in Rome for the past two months, after serving with Alitalia since 2009 and e.g. Etihad earlier. Prepared By: Martin Bernict
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easyJet is set to launch a new route between Prague and Naples on Monday, October 28, 2024. The service will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays. Additionally, Saturday flights will be offered throughout November. Currently, Ryanair and Wizz Air already provide regular flights from Prague to Naples. While Ryanair has not yet released tickets for the winter schedule, it operates flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays during the summer schedule of 2024. Wizz Air will continue to fly on the same days in the winter schedule. easyJet offers flights from Prague to 14 destinations, including Alicante, Amsterdam, Basel, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (both Gatwick and Luton), Lyon, Manchester, Milan (Malpensa), Porto, Geneva, and Mallorca. Prepared By: Martin Bernict
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New regular flights have commenced to serve Tirana in Albania and Varna in Bulgaria from Katowice, Poland. Charter flights have been the only connection to these destinations so far. The routes are served by Wizz Air and Ryanair. Ryanair opened the Katowice–Varna route on Saturday June 1, 2024, operating three times a week (every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). Wizz Air connected Katowice with the Albanian capital on Monday, June 3. This new connection is operated three times a week as well (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday). In 2023, Katowice Airport recorded the best results in its history. It achieved record results in total passenger counts, both in scheduled and charter operations. Katowice handled exactly 5,609,022 passengers last year, which represents an increase of 1,189,931 (+26.9%) compared to 2022. For 2024, the airport has set a target of 6.1 million passengers. Prepared By: Martin Bernict
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RYANAIR’S LOW FARE FLIGHTS NOW AVAILABLE TO KIWI CUSTOMERS Following the announcement of their “Approved OTA” partnership in Jan last, Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Tues, 28th May) announced that its low fare flights are now available to book as part of Kiwi bookings just in time for the peak Summer holiday season. For Kiwi customers who wish to book Ryanair flights/ancillaries, this exciting new partnership means; Customers benefit from Ryanair’s low fares combined with Kiwi’s virtual interlining service. Customers receive all flight-related communications directly from Ryanair, including T&Cs and important flight updates. Customers have direct access to their myRyanair account to manage their booking. Customers don’t have to complete Ryanair’s customer verification. Over the past few months, Ryanair has signed “Approved OTA” distribution agreements with six large OTAs, including this partnership with Kiwi, demonstrating how OTAs can work transparently with Ryana...
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Smartwings is strengthening its fleet as it approaches what is expected to be its strongest summer season. Boeing 737-800 aircraft are gradually returning from Canada (Sunwing Airlines). On Tuesday, May 14th, OK-TSU arrived, followed by OK-TVH on Wednesday, May 15th. On Saturday, the first two Canadian Boeing 737-800 aircraft that Smartwings plans to lease until mid-October (including flight crews), landed at the main base in Prague. These were C-GFEH from Sunwing Airlines (serial number 41608, year of manufacture 2015) and C-FJVE also from Sunwing Airlines (serial number 34596, year of manufacture 2006). Both arrived already in modified Smartwings livery. The Smartwings Group fleet has now reached 48 aircraft, including leased planes: 3 Airbus A320s, 2 B737-700s, 31 B737-800s, 2 B737-900ERs, and 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. This count does not include Cessna aircraft from the sister airline UGJet. Smartwings still has several aircraft on winter lease in Canada with Sunwing A...
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Ryanair plans to remove Bordeaux Airport from its network. The decision comes after disagreements with the airport's management. This decision also affects the Prague-Bordeaux route, which will operate for the last time on October 25, 2024. Currently, the route runs twice a week (every Monday and Friday). Ryanair holds a monopoly on this route. Starting from winter, Prague will lose its connection to Bordeaux. Prepared By: Martin Bernict
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Ryanair plánuje vyřadit ze své sítě letiště ve francouzském Bordeaux. Rozhodnutí přichází po neshodách s vedením tamního letiště. Rozhodnutí se týká také linky Praha – Bordeaux. Ta poletí naposled 25. října 2024. Momentálně je v provozu 2x týdně (každé pondělí a pátek). Na trase má Ryanair monopol. Praha od zimy o spojení s městem přijde. Připravil: Martin Bernict
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LOT Polish Airlines took delivery of its new Boeing 737 MAX 8 at the Boeing factory in Seattle on Tuesday, May 14th. The aircraft with registration SP-LVN headed to Warsaw with a stopover in Keflavik, Iceland. This is the twelfth 737 MAX in the Polish carrier's fleet. In recent years, their aircraft fleet has been bolstered by both a freshly manufactured MAX, which was not taken over by Romanian Blue Air, and five other Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that the Romanian carrier retired from service and returned to the lessor. The aircraft delivered this week is brand new and manufactured for the Polish carrier. The delivery of new aircraft is part of an ambitious modernization program, under which LOT acquires approximately 110 new aircraft. More than eighty of them will be regional aircraft. Last week, through the leasing company Azorra, LOT acquired the first three units of the E195-E2. The first one will be delivered in July, and the remaining two by the end of October....
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