Trivia 2014 (miscellaneous news)

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http://www.jde.be/tnt-express

Les portes de TNT seront ouvertes uniquement de 09h à 13h.

À découvrir:
Le centre de tri, 2 types d’avions de notre flotte

À essayer:
tester le camion à angle mort, visiter un avion, tester une voiture tonneau de la police.

Petits extras:
boissons et snacks vendus par l’ASBL : « Liège aide Haiti », activités pour les enfants

Amusant pour les enfants:
visite d’avions, château gonflable, camion à angle mort, chiens pisteurs de la douane, voiture tonneau de la police.

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http://www.hainanairlines.be/nl/
http://www.hainanairlines.be/fr/

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Airline food sold on the streets: Korean Air joins AF, OS, DL, UA to let the public sample inflight catering from a food truck.



http://www.airlinetrends.com/2014/10/04 ... promotion/

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What does JetBlue do with its brand new Airbus A321? Fly it directly to where Boeing makes its planes, of course!


Source: Jason Rabinowicz

[airazurxtror]

Above Brussels :
http://www.lesoir.be/671639/article/act ... kpit-video

[galaxy]

KARACHI: At least 16 cabin crew members of Pakistan's national carrier have disappeared in the last five months in Canada after going there on international flights.

Four cabin crew of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last month failed to show up for their return flights after disappearing from the hotel in which the flight crew members were staying, Ary News channel reported. The channel said that a spokesman of the PIA had confirmed that in the last five months women cabin crew members had slipped away after flying to Canada on PIA flights.

"Disciplinary departmental action against those who have slipped away has been initiated by PIA while these staffers will also have to face action under international aviation laws," the channel quoted the spokesman as saying.

The cash-strapped airline has some 17,000 employees but just 36 aircraft, and 10 of them are grounded due to a lack of spare parts.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 079640.cms

[airazurxtror]

It seems that 4YOU Airlines has closed down for the moment, without having ever begun its scheduled services :
http://4youairlines.com/pl/
(Google translation)


Dear Customers,
Please be advised that all persons who purchased the product available via the http://www.4youairlines.com and received a booking confirmation is entitled to withdraw from the contract for the return of all contributed funds.
If interested, please send a statement to the specimen zwrot@4youairlines.com address below or by registered mail to the following address: 4You Airlines Sp. of o.o ul. January 17, 32, 02-148 Warsaw
The Board 4You Airline


4YOU was to fly from Lodz and Rzeszów to Charleroi.

[FLYAIR10]

Virgin Atlantic will stop operations of it's domestic UK airline Little Red next year.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ed-404482/

Grtz.

[FLYAIR10]

Airline Seat Coverings Find New Life in Kenya.

A leather re-purposing program was recently launched in Nairobi, Kenya that aims to improve the lives of people in local communities. U-S based Southwest Airlines has partnered with SOS Children’s Village Kenya, a non-profit that serves orphaned children and families in need. Additional partners include Malawi and the U-S.

The new initiative called “LUV Seat: Repurpose with Purpose,” is a unique project that came about as the airline was looking for a way to recycle the 43 acres of left-over leather from the seats of their redesigned 737-700 aircraft.

Source:

http://www.voanews.com/content/leather- ... 73804.html

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"Largest" flight number being assigned by UNITED, is UA9998 Brussels to Vienna (codeshare by brussels airlines).

Source: Airline Route

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KLM celebrates its 95th anniversary with a special logo:

[RoMax]

KLM celebrates its 95th anniversary with a special logo:

And don't forget the 395 Euro return fares for Jakarta, New York and Curaçao which went for sale this night for 24h (altough it seems difficult/impossible to find the lowest fares now).

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Blackpool International Airport has announced it will close on 15 October after a buyer was not found.

A statement on the airport website said: "Unfortunately there is no option for the company other than to close."

Owners Balfour Beatty announced last week it had set 7 October as a deadline for any sale to be completed.

"This is a very sad day for the airport which has a proud aviation history and a loyal, appreciative customer following," the statement added.

Transferring flights
The company said the airport had been making a loss for several years and had to close because no agreement had been made to secure its future.

It added the airport will remain open to the public until 15 October and will maintain operations as normal until then.

Balfour Beatty, which bought the site in 2008, put it up for sale in August.

About 110 staff are employed at the airport, which served some 235,000 passengers last year.

Jet2, which had been operating out of the airport, will be transferring its Blackpool flights to Manchester from Friday.

BBC

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KLM celebrates its 95th anniversary with a special logo

It takes about three hours to apply the “95 Years” logo to each aircraft.

The special KLM MD-11 to celebrate KLM's 95th anniversary departs Schiphol bound for Montreal.

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Sergei Prokofiev International Airport, Donetsk. Built for Euro 2012. Shelled at/from through summer. The brand-new collapsed today :

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easyJet, the UK’s largest and one of Europe’s leading airlines, has today launched a new passport scanning function to its award-winning mobile app, making it the first European airline to have such a feature.

easyJet’s app, which has been downloaded over 10 million times to date, now enables customers using an iOS or Android device to scan their passport details using their mobile phone camera making it quicker and easier to check in.
- See more at: http://mediacentre.easyjet.com/stories/ ... EAsry.dpuf

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It was announced this week that Danish airline Cimber will cease operations (again!) during spring 2015, with the loss of 130 jobs.

http://www.btnews.co.uk/article/7988

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Aeroflot’s first foreign pilot

Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot welcomed its first non-Russian pilot when Klaus Rohlfs, a German citizen, made his debut as an Aeroflot captain flying from Moscow to Prague in late September.

[Passenger]

Amsterdam Airport is in control of its own taxi activities, and they have invested in a new fleet of taxi vehicles. The first 50 cars of a fleet order of 167 identical cars have been delivered yesterday.

car type : Tesla Model S...
http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/c ... s-schiphol

[galaxy]

Aeroflot’s first foreign pilot

Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot welcomed its first non-Russian pilot when Klaus Rohlfs, a German citizen, made his debut as an Aeroflot captain flying from Moscow to Prague in late September.

Earlier this year changes were enacted to Article 56 of the Russian Air Code to allow Russian airlines to hire foreign citizens as flight personnel from 21 July. A Government Order allows the nation’s carriers to recruit up to 200 foreign citizens every year in total.
https://www.aeroflot.ru/cms/en/new/43541