by Lufthansa Flyer | Feb 12, 2017 | Featured, Hamburg, Passenger Experience |
Hamburg airport has just reopened after what appears to have been a gas leak that led to the evacuation of the airport.
According to various media outlets, up to 50 people had taken ill and authorities had evacuated terminal 1 and 2 while searching for the cause.
Some outlets had speculated that the source of the gas was discovered at the security check area and may have spread throughout the airport through the ventilation system system, but nothing that I have read confirms that in fact a passenger is to blame for this.
The airport had been closed for about 1 hour 15 minutes before being re-opened.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Feb 11, 2017 | A350, Featured, Lufthansa, Route Announcements |
Lufthansa has updated their timetable to reflect the A350 taking over flying the route between Munich and Boston.
Beginning March 14, the A350 will begin to fly the route that is currently flown by the A330.
Flight info is as follows:
LH424 departs Munich at 3:55p, arriving in Boston at 6:35p
LH425 departs Boston at 8:20p, arriving in Munich at 9:45a the following morning.
With this announcement, Lufthansa now serves Delhi and Boston with their A350 aircraft.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured, Fleet Update, Jumbolino, Swiss |
SWISS has once again updated their expected retirement date for the Avro RJ100 or as we like to refer to as the ‘Jumbolino’. She’s known as the Jumbolino due to the 4 jet engines that are strapped to the wings of a small regional aircraft.
Per SWISS’ previous update, the target retirement date was set for August 26, 2017 however they have moved the date up to August 16. Currently there are 7 ‘Jumbolinos’ left in service and most will be phased out over the summer months leading up to the August 16 date. At their peak in the LX fleet, 25 Jumbolinos were darting around SWISS destinations throughout Europe.
The reason for the minor shift is due to SWISS finally getting all the C-Series jets from Bombardier after extended delivery delays. Five have been put into service and one remains to be delivered. These aircraft will help fill in the void created by the removal of the Jumbolinos.
So for those of you who have a soft spot for aircraft entering retirement, start paying attention to the LX timetable for mid August. I suspect there may be another tweak or 2 left to the schedule before its finalized, but SWISS will publish the final timetable well ahead of the retirement party.
H/T: FlyerTalk’s Oliver2002
