| IMPORTANT NOTICE -- END OF SERVICE for bus TRANSFERS KOSICE - BUDAPEST airport |
03.02.2012 |
| Hungary’s National Airline MALEV stopped all operations as of 03 February 2012 |
| BTU office will be closed on 1. NOV & 17. NOV due to national holiday |
31.10.2011 |
| Kancelária BTU Bratislava bude z dovodu statneho sviatku zatvorena v dnoch 1. a 17. novembra |
| Transaero takes Russia in A380 era |
31.10.2011 |
| the first Russian operator of the superjumbo.
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| Austrian & Lufthansa - Adjustment to rebooking and refund fees from 01 August 2011 |
28.09.2011 |
| For ticket sales from 1 August 2011 onwards Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa will be increasing fees worldwide for rebooking and refunds. |
| Berlin - New Airport Code BER effective 03JUN2012 |
28.09.2011 |
| As of 03JUN2012 the new Berlin airport (Berlin Brandenburg – BER) will open for operations at the premises of the current Berlin-Schoenefeld airport. On the same date current airports Tegel (TXL) and Schoenefeld (SXF) will cease operations and all Berlin flights will operate to/from the new airport. |
| SWISS voted Europe’s best business-class airline |
28.09.2011 |
| Swiss International Air Lines has been named “Europe’s Leading Airline Business Class” in this year’s World Travel Awards. |
| 15.SEP.2011 - BTU office will be closed due to national holiday |
13.09.2011 |
| Due to national holiday, our office will be closed on 15.september 2011. |
| China plans world’s biggest airport |
13.09.2011 |
| Beijing Daxing International airport, set to open in 2015, will be Beijing’s third commercial airport, after BCIA and the smaller Nanyuan airport |
| AirBerlin & NIKI - More baggage allowance, new rebooking fees |
31.08.2011 |
| News effective 01.September 2011:
More baggage allowance, new rebooking fees & summer flightplan 2012 loaded |
| Czech Airlines implements online payment of excess baggage |
23.07.2009 |
| Czech Airlines passengers travelling with baggage that does not meet the weight restrictions for complimentary carriage can prepay the excess baggage fee over the Internet. |
| Alitalia widens its international and intercontinental network with 13 new destinations operated in |
23.07.2009 |
| Alitalia widens its international and intercontinental network with 13 new destinations operated in codeshare with Air France/KLM |
| airBaltic increases frequency of flights in the summer season on 5 routes |
23.07.2009 |
| airBaltic has increased the frequency of flights in the summer season of 2009 on the routes from Riga to Dublin, Kaliningrad, Palanga, Tallinn and Vienna. |
| Aeroflot plans with CSA |
13.02.2009 |
| Aeroflot - Russian Airlines officially announces its interest to follow up on the long-standing partnership of the both companies and take part in the privatisation of CSA.
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| IBERIA LAUNCHES FLIGHTS FORM GERMANY TO BARCELONA FLIGHTS AT €64.15 |
03.04.2008 |
| Iberia has launched a special offer for flights from Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin to Barcelona, under code-sharing with the Barcelona-based, low-cost airline Clickair.
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| Iberia adds new Madrid-Algiers frequency Algiers |
12.04.2007 |
| Third weekly return flight to operate on Wednesday, starting April 11th. |
| British Airways To Upgrade Business Class |
14.11.2006 |
| British Airways will spend GBP100 million pounds (USD$190 million) revamping its business class cabins and installing wider beds, its latest salvo in a battle with Virgin Atlantic to woo high-paying passengers.
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| EasyJet To Expand Fleet As Profit Doubles |
14.11.2006 |
| Low-cost airline easyJet posted a 56 percent jump in annual profits on Tuesday and said it would expand its fleet with more Airbus planes as strong demand offsets high fuel costs.
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| Third Annual Expense/Payment Manager Survey: Automated Expense Tool Use On The Rise |
13.11.2006 |
| U.S.-based companies, although still largely reliant on in-house systems for expense management, increasingly are turning away from their homegrown systems in favor of automated, vendor-purchased solutions. While expense solutions in many companies remain tied to other internal software systems, such as SAP and other enterprise resource providers, technological advances in online expense tools have driven down costs and facilitated compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements.
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| Amex Sees Higher '07 Travel Costs |
13.11.2006 |
| With rising prices in air, hotel and car rental spending forecasted for 2007, the cost of a domestic trip that includes all three components will increase approximately $46, or 4.5 percent, while a trip taken internationally will increase $180, or 4.6 percent, from 2006, American Express Business Travel said in its industry forecast for 2007, released late last month. Meanwhile, the travel and card services company saw a third-quarter earnings rise, showing a gain of more than two million cardholders, double-digit percentage T&E spending growth and continued business travel restructuring. Overall, the quarter yielded an 11 percent income hike from continuing operations over the previous year.
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| Air Canada Unbundles Fares |
13.11.2006 |
| Air Canada last month began unbundling flight options through its Web site, allowing travelers to customize bookings by "buying added services or, conversely, to save money by declining benefits normally included in their selected fare type."
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| Alitalia has 3 months to make it or break it |
12.10.2006 |
| Italian flag-carrier Alitalia has got three months to rectify its financial situation before it is forced to declare bankruptcy. Under EU law no state is able to aid an airline even though complaints that the Italian government’s hand-out last year was considered state aid was overruled.
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| Delta Aims To Be First U.S. Airline To Provide Lie-Flat Business Class Seats |
12.10.2006 |
| Delta Air Lines today announced its intention to be the first U.S. carrier to offer lie-flat seats for international business class travel. The carrier will have new lie-flat sleeper suites beginning in 2008, with the delivery of two new long-range Boeing 777s, which at first will serve its longest haul routes. Delta then will install the suites on all of its 777s and 767s by 2010.
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| Congo, Democratic Republic of |
12.10.2006 |
| Warden Message: U.S. Embassy reports possible closure of borders, airports during elections |
| Bangladesh: Update: Thousands of passengers stranded as rail workers strike |
12.10.2006 |
| From news reports: Thousands of passengers were stranded as a strike organized by several rail-workers' unions halted most train traffic in Bangladesh Tuesday.
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| Threat Level Change for the Aviation Sector |
11.08.2006 |
| In response to a serious terrorist threat to international aviation security, the Secretary of Homeland Security has elevated the Homeland Security Advisory System Threat Condition to Severe, or Red, for all commercial flights from the United Kingdom to the United States, and to High, or Orange, for all other international flights and all domestic commercial aviation.
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| Billigflieger Niki startet Frankfurt-Wien-Service |
07.08.2006 |
| Ab Ende Oktober zwei Mal werktäglich mit Airbus A320 |
| Singapore Airlines: Mehr Ziele um weniger Geld |
07.08.2006 |
| Per 19. Juli hat Singapore Airlines die Europa-Ziele Mailand und Barcelona neu ins Streckennetz genommen. |
| Air Transat Service-Nummer |
07.08.2006 |
| Die kanadische Fluggesellschaft Air Transat, die wie berichtet, ab Mai 2007 erstmals von Wien Nonstopflüge nach Kanada durchführen wird, ist ab sofort unter der Service-Nummer: 0820 – 400 125 ab Österreich telefonisch zu erreichen. |
| Belgium: Union workers threaten 14 July national airport strike |
11.07.2006 |
| Union workers on Tuesday were threatening to paralyze traffic at the country's national airport with strike action, demanding airport management offer more overtime pay and better working schedules in new contract talks. |
| Railway workers begin 24-hour strike |
21.06.2006 |
| vItalian state railway workers began a 24-hour strike late Tuesday, according to the Italian railway company Trenitalia. |
