Summer 08
Tomorrow sees the official introduction of the Summer timetable, and it is time to review what may, or may not, be happening.
Air Berlin - Paderborn increases to 6 per week
Finnair - New overnight stopper effective 4th May
China Airlines - Reduce to 2 per week.
Air Blue - Daily to Islamabad
Centralwings - ??? not a lot
Aer Lingus - Reduce to 3 per day on Dublin, 4 per week to Cork
easyJet - 2 Based A320 operating the former GB Airways routes
Ryanair - Gerona 4 per week, Bremen and Bergamo 3 per week each and Marseille 2 per week with non-based aircraft.
Jade Cargo - Still rumoured to be starting a twice weekly service to Shenzhen in August with 747-400F
Jet2 - Down to 6 based aircraft. AMS/BCN/TLS/SXF/VLC/PRG no longer operate.
Sky Europe - Daily Bratislava
CSA - Twice daily, but the overnight stopper has gone. New daily service arrives 0855z and departs 0940z.
Singapore - Daily
Eastern Airways - 4th Stansted service Mon-Thu
Mahan Air - Plan to re-introduce IKA service effective 4th June 4 times weekly with A310 (heard this before!!)
Turkish - Up from daily to 10 per week effective August.
TACV (Cabo Verde Airlines) - Weekly to Sal (SID)
SATA - Weekly to Ponta Delgarda with A320
Cancellations
Air Canada
Bmi - 8th LHR service will not operate
Cathay - Cargo reduced to 10 flights per week
There are, I am sure, more changes but I thought these might be of interest.
All the best
Scottie Dog
ps - don't forget the clocks change tonight (1 hour less in bed)