Eurowings

FlightGlobal | March 07, 2019

Lufthansa Group is to establish long-haul Eurowingsoperations from Frankfurt, complementing the similar services offered from the group’s second hub at Munich.Eurowings will use a total of seven Airbus A330s for the expansion, configured with 310 seats, with some of the fleet operated by SunExpress Deutschland.Capacity will be “distributed evenly” between Frankfurt and Munich, says Lufthansa Group.The Frankfurt operations will commence in autumn this year, ahead of the winter s...

Simple Flying | January 17, 2020

Canadian operator WestJet is planning a new transatlantic service. The Boeing 737 operated flight would be used to connect Canada’s Halifax to Manchester in the United Kingdom. The seasonal flight is set to operate over the 2020 summer period. WestJet is launching its third route from Halifax to the United Kingdom this summer. Accompanying its existing routes to London and Glasgow, the new connection will be operated by a Boeing 737 aircraft. Launching in June, the route will remain in ope...

ch-aviation | January 16, 2020

Qatar Airways has announced a codeshare partnership with Deutsche Bahn (DB) the German railway operator, offering its passengers connections to and from eight key destinations in Germany, according to a press release issued by the airline. The Oneworld carrier currently operates 35 weekly flights between Doha Hamad Int'l and the German cities of Frankfurt Int'l (2x daily), Munich (2x daily), and Berlin Tegel (1x daily). Under the DB deal, Qatar Airways passengers will be able to connect ...

SunExpress | January 15, 2017

Kuwaiti authorities searched the plane after evacuating passengers and crew but did not find a bomb. Mansour al-Hashemi, a spokesman for Kuwait’s civil aviation authority, said: “Initial investigations confirmed the plane was explosives-free.”...