by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 28, 2016 | 777, Featured, Route Announcements, Swiss |
SWISS released a minor update to their timetable this morning that focuses on European destinations for their 777 from October 30 to February 15. The 777s flying around Europe will allow for the additional training of crew new to the aircraft type.
Zurich – Geneva beginning on October 30 will see the 777 2 days a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays. These flights will operate as LX2802 from Zurich and LX2807 from Geneva.
Zurich – Hanover beginning on October 30 will see the 777 8 times a week. Swiss flight LX816 (from Zurich) and LX817 (from Hanover) will operate everyday EXCEPT Mondays. Flight LX828 (from Zurich) and LX829 (from Hanover will operate on Tuesdays and Thursdays).
Zurich – London Heathrow will see the 777 only once. LX318 from Zurich and LX319 from London will operate ONLY on February 11.
Zurich – Vienna beginning on October 30 will see the 777 2 times a week. LX1574 from Zurich and LX1575 from Vienna will operate on Sundays, while LX1582 (from Zurich) and LX1583 (from Vienna) will operate on Saturdays.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 7, 2016 | 777, Austrian, Featured, Route Announcements |
To meet the demand of fans traveling to and from this year’s Euro 2016 being hosted by France, Austrian has assigned the 777 to fly between Vienna and Paris. Of the 4 daily roundtrips between the cities, the 777 will be assigned specifically to flights OS411 and OS412. OS411 departs Vienna at 7:05a and arrives in Paris at 9:10a. OS412 departs Paris at 10:00 and arrives in Vienna at 12:00p.
Here are the specific dates for the 777 flights:
Daily from Thursday June 16 through Sunday June 19 (OS411/412).
Daily from Tuesday June 21 Through Thursday June 23 (OS 411/412).
This of course assuming that the French ATC workers don’t screw things up by going on Strike as they’ve threatened to do during the Tournament. However, I don’t see them being stupid enough to try that stunt if they wish to have the public’s support for their silly ‘plights’ 🙂
But again, the French ATC’ers have tried to make a career out of striking……
by Lufthansa Flyer | May 28, 2016 | 777, Austrian, Featured |
Got your attention didn’t it….
Beginning June 10, Austrian will be deploying their 777s to fly between Vienna and Paris to meet the demand as a result of the UEFA Euro2016 Championship which is set to run between June 10 and July 10. Specifically, the 777 will operate the morning flights between Vienna and Paris in they days leading up to the Austrian National Team’s matches against Portugal and Iceland. The Portugal match is June 18, while Iceland is on the 22nd, so expect the 777s to be especially active a day or 2 before and after these matches.
In addition to increasing capacity to Paris, OS will also add 15 additional flights between VIE and CDG using their A320 and A321 aircraft.
Austrian will also deploy more capacity to Lyon as it will replace their Dash 8 and Fokker aircraft with narrow body Airbus aircraft to help meet the additional demand of fans of other countries traveling via Vienna to go root for their teams. Austrian plans to operate the Airbus aircraft on at least 10 flights during the tournament between Vienna and Lyon.
In all, Austrian will be adding 5,000 more seats worth of capacity during the tournament.
