by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 24, 2016 | Featured, Industry News, Strike |
In reviewing a few announcements from a variety of sources including EuroControl, it looks as though ATC strikes will be quite popular in Europe during July.
Instead of putting all of them into one or 2 paragraphs, it is easier just to list them since there are several (times are in local time zones):
Italy:
July 5: 11:00a to 3:00p
July 23: 10:00a to 6:00p
France:
June 28: General strikes will have widespread outages.
Portugal (The following dates will have random 2 hour strikes held each day):
June 30
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
Keep in mind that these dates can come and go as negotiations go on between labor and management continue.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 8, 2016 | Euro 2016, Featured, Industry News |
If you’re traveling to France to take in the Euro 2016 tournament that begins on Friday, make sure you take your Passport or Identity Card. Otherwise you might be watching the tournament in your living room back home.
Just short of suspending Schengen, France will require a valid passport or National ID Card for anyone entering the country ahead of the tournament. This includes rail, road and airport entry points into France as well as Basel Airport in Switzerland due to its location on the French border.
According to French officials, drivers licenses will not be considered an acceptable form of ID for the purpose of entering France.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 6, 2016 | Airlines, Avgeek, Featured, Industry News |
In what I would categorize under the heading of ‘What are they thinking?’, Turkey has decided in order to revive tourism to a once thriving coastal town, it would make sense to sink an Airbus A300 into the ocean in the hopes that divers would come to visit it. They also claim that it will help build a new reef for fish and corals to make home and would be the largest aircraft ever to be sunk for this purpose. The last point I won’t argue since it’s been proven that artificial reefs can work. What I do wonder is will people now flock to Kusadasi, Turkey to dive the wreck.
What used to be a favorite destination of Russians and Europeans alike, Kusadasi is struggling to stay alive. In fact, according to the RT.com article covering the event, it is suggested that Russian tourism has fallen off by as much as 81% due to sanctions, terrorism and basic distrust of each other. Also noted was the fact that dozens of hotels, restaurants, and shops have been shuttered due to the dramatic drop in tourism. Apparently the dunking of an Airbus is the best idea that the local Chamber of Commerce could come up with!
Back to the sinking of the A300….
The A300 was dismantled in Istanbul and trucked on 5 flatbeds to Kusadasi where cranes helped position the aircraft. With the aid of rafts and divers, it was lowered, complete with wings, into its final resting place 60 feet below the surface of the Aegean Sea. It is now open for business.
To see various tweets and Instagram posts showing the event, click here to be taken to the RT.com story.
Are you thinking ‘Slow News Day” ???
