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Originally Posted by RAT 5 (Post 10091446)

They can leverage on Niki Lauda's reputation and celebrity.

A fascinating prospect; MOL & Niki around a conference/negotiating table. One a famous celebrity, the other an infamous well known person. Both hard as nails; both rich enough to not be scraping for every last €. Both men of vision for what they want with their airline, but will that vision be compatible. It might seem to be now, but what about 5-7 years down the road as one party tries to squeeze the other into their mould.

Which probably meant that negotiation for both parties was a doddle.......... mutual benefit for both.

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Originally Posted by jdcg (Post 10092420)

Currently being loaded up for booking:
Kyiv – London Stansted
Kyiv – Stockholm Skavsta
Kyiv – Vilnius
Kyiv – Wroclaw
Kyiv – Barcelona
Kyiv – Warsaw Modlin
Kyiv – Gdansk
Kyiv – Krakow
Kyiv – Poznan
Kyiv – Bratislava
Lviv – London Stansted
Lviv – Warsaw Modlin
Lviv – Memmingen
Lviv – Dusseldorf Weeze
Lviv – Krakow

Guess UIA law suit against Govt didn't go anywhere.

Laudamotion and Ryanair released first details of their partnership:

21 aircraft, 44 airports, 65 routes and 9 bases: Vienna, Berlin Tegel, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zurich

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Four aircraft will be based in Vienna and the frequency of flights to Palma de Mallorca will increase to up to three daily connections. Four Laudamotion aircraft will be based in Berlin Tegel, six in Dusseldorf, one each in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart respectively, with two in Zurich.

Berlin Tegel (competition against easyJet):

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Laudamotion’s new Berlin Tegel base will open on 1st June with four based aircraft, offering low fare routes to 17 sunshine destinations: Barcelona, Brindisi, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Malaga, Milan Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Pula, Rhodes, Rijeka and Tenerife.

Vienna (competition against Wizz Air):

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This coming winter, Laudamotion will focus on a city shuttle service with up to three more aircraft based in Vienna

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/l...hip-takes-off/

Having used Ryanair over Easter for the first time in a while I decided (only partly because I'm tight) to test out their automatic seating algorithm - you know the one that "doesn't deliberately split families and groups up without good reason" - and the results were most interesting (both flights were comfortably busy but not full):

Outbound it decided to put, Mrs McCrevis in 4D, me in 5D and Son of McCrevis (duly armed with £10 to buy Kit-Kat) in 15D, no real issues however we soon discover we are sat next another married couple who are split across 4E and 5E (with both 4F and 5F left empty). So a quick bit of "self re-allocation" followed and we a were all re-united.

The return was very similar, this time Son of McCrevis in 2D, me in 3D and Mrs McCrevis in 16D Once again I soon discovered that the lady next to me in 3E was separated from her two children who had been put in 16E and 16F next my wife (despite 2F and 3F both once again being empty). So once again a slightly more convoluted bit of "self re-allocation" (this is going to cause carnage when everyone starts doing it) and it's happy families again.

Ok I am sure someone could argue that "the allocation is driven by the order in which everyone checked in and it will be continually distributing passengers to keep the aircraft in trim" - really? a mother and her kids 13 rows apart? come on. I am more deemed to conclude, based on this limited sample, that their algorithm is either complete pants or deliberately designed to split families and groups.

It's deliberately designed to split people up. It's not that complicated an algorithm to get right. And it sucks

When will all of winter 2018/19 flights be on sale

Waiting to book ncl to Madrid

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Originally Posted by HH6702 (Post 10113881)

When will all of winter 2018/19 flights be on sale

Waiting to book ncl to Madrid

It's already onsale

I see the Man's horse has won the Grand National. Apparently Tiger Roll flew over all 30 fences. I'd like to think most of his winnings went on landing fees, but......

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Originally Posted by DC3 Dave (Post 10118496)

I see the Man's horse has won the Grand National. Apparently Tiger Roll flew over all 30 fences. I'd like to think most of his winnings went on landing fees, but......

To be fair I think winning at Cheltenham means more.

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Originally Posted by compton3bravo (Post 10118924)

Quite agree Racedo.

Aintree is for show ponies and that is the punters rather the horses.

Cheltenham is for racing lovers.

Met a trainer recently and she said winning at Cheltenham (any race) she gets remembered for, Aintree and nobody cares

CLOSING OF CHANIA BASE

11 ROUTES DROPPED

Athens
Billund
Bologna (ends 31 august)
Glasgow
Katowice
Marseille
Memmingen
Stockholm Skavsta
Thessaloniki
Treviso
Vilnius

What’s going on with the BOH-KRK route? Not bookable beyond Jan19

Any other KRK routes affected like this?

BOH-KRK back up on sale beyond 29 Jan 2019, good news

2 NEW ROUTES AND NEW AIRPORT

Banja Luka to Memmingen
Banja Luka to Charleroi

Both begins October 2018

Not ashamed to admit I had to google where Banja Luka was!

You are not alone !!!!

Was mentioned quite frequently in connection with the last war fought on European soil.

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Originally Posted by TBSC (Post 10127839)

Was mentioned quite frequently in connection with the last war fought in European soil.

Correct like Bihac, Gorazde, Srebenica etc