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Star Alliance Route Announcements: May 26 – June 4, 2015

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 4, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Route Announcements, Star Alliance | 0 comments

AIR CANADA:

Montreal – La Romana effective December 21 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

Ottawa – Cayo Coco effective December 21 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

Ottawa – Holguin effective December 22 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

AIR CHINA:

Beijing – Montreal effective September 27 will BEGIN 3x/week service.

Tianjin – Okinawa effective July 18 will BEGIN 2x/week service.

AIR NEW ZEALAND:

Auckland – Los Angeles effective December 19 will be reduced from 17x/week to 16x/week.

Auckland – San Francisco effective December 10 will be reduced from 10x/week to 9x/week.

ANA:

Tokyo (NRT) – Paris (CDG) effective October 25 is CANCELLED.

ASIANA:

Cheongju – Beijing effective June 2 will increase from 2x/week to 5x/week.

COPA:

Panama City – San Francisco effective September 17 will BEGIN 1x/day service.

ETHIOPIAN:

Addis Ababa – Goma new 3x/week service has been delayed until July 10.

LOT:

Warsaw – Belgrade effective July 1 is CANCELLED.

Warsaw – Chisinau effective July 1 is CANCELLED.

Warsaw – Yerevan effective July 1 is CANCELLED.

Warsaw – Zagreb effective July 1 is CANCELLED.

LUFTHANSA:

Frankfurt – Damman will continue to operate 7x/week for Winter 15/16. Previous plan was to change to 4x/week on October 26.

Frankfurt – Nagoya effective December 26 will be reduced from 5x/week to 4x/week.

Frankfurt – Nanjing effective October 25 will be reduced from 5x/week to 4x/week.

Frankfurt – Osaka effective October 25 will be reduced from 7x/week to 5x/week.

Munich – Beijing effective October 25 will increase from 5x/week to 7x/week.

Munich – Seoul effective October 25 will increase from 5x/week to 6x/week.

SAS:

Copenhagen – Manchester effective October 26 will increase from 13x/week to 18x/week.

Copenhagen – San Francisco effective October 25 will increase from 6x/week to 1x/day.

Gothenburg – London Heathrow effective October 25 is CANCELLED.

Gothenburg – London Stansted effective October 26 will BEGIN 12x/week service (Replaces London Heathrow)

Oslo – Vilnius effective October 29 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Stockholm – Manchester effective October 25 will increase from 7x/week to 11x/week.

Stockholm – Munich effective February 5 will BEGIN 3x/week service.

Stockholm – Prague effective October 25 will increase from 4x/week to 5x/week.

SOUTH AFRICAN (Airlink):

Cape Town – Pretoria effective August 17 will BEGIN 11x/week, increasing to 18x/week on September 1.

TURKISH:

Istanbul (SAW) – Erbil effective July 20 will BEGIN 4x/week service, increasing to 1x/day on September 18.

UNITED:

San Francisco – Shanghai has delayed 2nd daily flight from July 2 to August 31.

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H/T: AirlineRoute.net

AUSTRIAN Swapping Fokkers For ERJs

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 3, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, Fleet Update | 1 comment

AUSTRIAN Airlines has announced plans to swap aircraft types to increase capacity and to reduce the fleet’s age.

Beginning in August of this year, OS will begin receiving 17 Embraer 195 aircraft from Lufthansa Cityline who will be migrating to CRJ900s as part of the Eurowings master plan.

A future member of the Austrian fleet…..

The 17 ERJs will phase out the Fokkers currently in the fleet and will dramatically increase capacity. Each ERJ will seat 120 passengers as compared to the 80-100 passengers that each Fokker could carry.

Additionally, the 17 ERJs were manufactured between 2009 and 2012 which in essence makes these planes nearly new as far as OS is concerned. Compare that to the Fokkers who on average are 21 years old. The ERJs also come with the metric of being 17% more efficient than the Fokkers they are replacing.

According to OS, the first ERJ to be delivered in August of this year will be used to help cross-train nearly 200 OS pilots and expectations are that the first ERJ in OS colors will enter passenger service in January 2016.

LUFTHANSA Group Ticket Surcharges Coming To ‘GDS’ Issued Tickets

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 3, 2015 | Austrian, Brussels, Eurowings, Featured, germanwings, Lufthansa, Swiss | 4 comments

Beginning September 1, 2015, passengers who book their Lufthansa Group airline tickets via ‘GDS’ outlets will be assessed a €16/$18 surcharge.

‘GDS’ or Global Distribution System tickets are the tickets that are booked through travel agents or online portals such as Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline, etc.

The surcharge is being added due to increases in expenses associated with GDS tickets. Lufthansa Group’s expense incurred with GDS tickets runs into the hundreds of millions of Euro each year due to the expense of the distribution network (fees and commissions paid to the vendors).

Tickets purchased through a Lufthansa Group Airline’s website, service center or ticket counter at the airport will not be subject to this surcharge. This applies to Lufthansa, Brussels, Austrian, SWISS, and Germanwings/Eurowings websites.