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EUROPE Airports Chaos
The historic Emirates flights between Dubai and Tel Aviv began recently with a Boeing 777 service connecting the two cities. A fanfare welcome greeted the flight as it landed. 335 passengers, including a number of media and high profile dignitaries from both countries were also on board.
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Emirates hopes that Israel will become one of its top 20 source markets and with new flights it will help push Israel further up that ranking. El Al and flydubai already link the two cities, but with Emirates now operating too, the two UAE airlines will offer 2,478 seats a week.
FRENCH BEE LAUNCHES NEW ROUTE FROM MIAMI
French bee is a very competitively-priced long-haul carrier since arriving in the U.S. market with its San Francisco to Paris and Tahiti in 2018. Recently two new successful routes; Paris from Los Angeles and New York are now to include another new route from Miami. Three a la carte ticket tiers (Basic, Smart and Premium) allow travellers to pay for exactly what they want while air+train packages enable passengers to build discounted itineraries beyond Paris.
In addition, French bee has a partnership with Alaska Airlines for travellers outside of Miami to conveniently connect from various cities. French bee will operate 4 weekly nonstop flights from Miami International Airport to Paris Orly Airport. It is the only smart-cost carrier with a full Airbus fleet featuring the A350-900 aircraft and an A350-1000 aircraft.
EUROPE AIRPORTS CHAOS
With the strong resurgence of travel, many airports are just not able to manage or cope with demand on the ground, particularly but not exclusively at London’s Heathrow airport. The problem is hitting almost all airports across Europe.
Recent reports have shown long queues and piles of luggage as systems crash.
Due to increase demand, Heathrow said it was working closely with airlines and ground handlers to match supply and demand.
Labour shortages and logistics problems have hit airports hard with many key entry airports into popular destinations facing issues, like in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany, Poland, etc.
A huge lack of workforce is being seen in almost every industry, but particularly in tourism, which was the most hard hit from the health crisis. Many people left the sector completely while others have not returned to the sector.
CATHAY PACIFIC RENEWS HK HUB
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to increase plane numbers at its Hong Kong hub as restrictions ease. The airline still has one third of its planes parked and unused.
Since March 2020, it operated just 4% of its capacity and in May 2022 started to fill 60.5% of its seats as Hong Kong gradually reduced quarantine requirements.
Cathay Pacific Airways has 45 passenger destinations in operation at present, up from 30 at the beginning of 2022 and plans for up to 70 by the end of 2022 as demand increases. 108 passenger destinations were operated prior to March 2020.
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