by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 5, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The airlines are busy this week tuning their Spring and Summer timetables! Previous Star Alliance route change announcements available here.
United/Continental
Effective May 1, United will reduce Los Angeles(LAX)-Vancouver(YVR) service from 2x/day to 1x/day.
US Airways
Effective March 25, will begin 3x/day service between Washington Reagan(DCA)-Ottawa(YOW). The route will be flown by CRJ200’s.
Swiss
Effective between June 7 through 30 August, service between Chicago(ORD)-Zurich(ZRH) will increase from 7x/week to 11x/week. In addition some flights will be be serviced by the Airbus A340 instead of the A330 which is normally flown on the route.
Croatia Airlines
Effective March 25, will increase Zagreb(ZAG)-Copenhagen(CPH) from 4x to 6x/weekly.
Effective April 13 will restart 2x/week service between Dubrovnik(DBV) and Vienna(VIE).
Effective June 17 will restart 1x/week service between Dubrovnik(DBV) and Istanbul(IST).
Previously planned 2x/week service (was to start April 16) between Dubrovnik (DBV) and Munich (MUC) has been canceled.
Egyptair
Effective between January 12 and April 30, service between Cairo-New York JFK is reduced to 5x/week from 7x/week. The route is flown by a Boeing 777-300ER.
Spanair
Effective between July 25 to Sept 5, Barcelona(BCN)-Belgrade(BEG) increases from 3x/weekly to 4x/weekly.
Effective March 25 Barcelona(BCN)-Dubrovnik(DBV) is reduced from 4x/week to 3x/weekly.
Effective March 25 Barcelona(BCN)-Hamburg(HAM) increases from 3x/week to daily.
Effective March 25 Barcelona(BCN)-Helsinki(HEL) is reduced from 4x/week to 3x/week.
Effective March 25 Barcelona(BCN)–Malta(MLA) Summer service has been canceled.
Effective March 25 Barcelona(BCN)-Tel Aviv(TLV) is reduced from 5x/week to 3x/week.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Though Autoslash.com has been around for a while, I’ve only recently begun using it regularly due to an increase in renting cars on my travels. I thought I’d share my recently discovery of the site (I’m not receiving any consideration from them for doing this).
The concept is great. In addition to searching for car rental rates, the site also lets you keep track of existing rental reservations that you have with most rental companies. By providing Autoslash with your information for upcoming rentals (name, email and confirm #), it will keep track of the rate and if a lower rate is found for your existing reservation, you’ll get an email letting you know so that you can go and rebook a new reservation at the lower cost. This way you don’t have to keep stalking the rental rate, the site will do it for you.
I’ve been renting cars in the past few months more than ever before due to travel that takes me to Santa Ana frequently and Autoslash has saved me several hundred dollars so far. My biggest savings was taking a $500 premium class week-long rental and knocking it down to $220 for the week.
You can try the site for yourself at www.Autoslash.com
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Reuters has reported Lufthansa has become the first airline to address the expenses incurred as a result of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Since Lufthansa has among the highest number of Intra-European and International flights of any carriers that serve the EU, it will be affected to a higher degree than other airlines. Non EU-based carriers will be subject to the provisions of the ETS as well.
Highlights from the article include:
* Says to add costs of the ETS to fuel surcharge
* Says 2012 costs from the ETS expected at 130 mln euros
* Says will have to buy 35 percent of needed permits in 2012
Last month Lufthansa had already increased ticket costs due to higher fuel expenses and has indicated that in the short term, it will not be adding any additional surcharges to it’s fares. So at least for now Lufthansa has planned accordingly and seems to being dealing with ETS as well as it can given the environment.
In a previous entry on my blog, I talked about the impact of the ETS on US based carriers.
EDIT: Good point by Reader AnatO1 (from comments): Interesting that LH will add the cost to the fuel surcharge. This means that if USA based (mainly award) tickets continue not to attract YQ, the ETS will not be passed to new tickets either.
