TK launches Central America flights
TURKISH Airlines launched a thrice-weekly service from Istanbul to Havana and
Caracas on December 20. Flight TK183 departs Istanbul at 02h10 every Tuesday,
Thursday and Sunday. It arrives in Havana at 08h00 then departs at 10h00 to
arrive in Caracas at 14h00 the same day. The return flight departs Caracas at
15h30 to arrive in Istanbul at 10h15 the following day. Flights are available for
booking.
ET to launch new flights
ETHIOPIAN Airlines will launch flights to Antananarivo in March, Chengdu, Jakarta
and Singapore in June and resume its service to Conakry in February. From
March 28, Ethiopian will operate three weekly flights to Antananarivo. The airline
will also introduce five weekly flights from Addis Ababa to Singapore from June 1
and a thrice-weekly service to Jakarta is scheduled to start on June 2. Three
weekly flights to Chengdu commence on June 3 and a five-times-a-week service
from Addis Ababa to Conakry commenced on February 1. The flight schedules
and fares have been loaded on to the GDS and are available for sale.
EY and LH sign codeshare
ETIHAD Airways and Lufthansa have finalised a codeshare agreement.
Pending government approval, the new codeshare was expected to take effect
in January. Lufthansa will place its code on Etihad’s twice-daily flights between
Abu Dhabi and Frankfurt and its twice-daily Abu Dhabi-Munich service. Etihad
will place its code on Lufthansa’s long-haul intercontinental services between
Frankfurt and Rio de Janeiro as well as Bogota.
In other news, Lufthansa welcomed its first A350-900 on December 21, the
first of 25 on order. The 293-seat aircraft will have a cabin configuration of
48 business-class seats, 21 in premium economy and 224 in economy class.
The A350 will replace the A340 on the Munich-Delhi route from February 10.
Lufthansa told TNW that the A350 would not be introduced to any of its South
African routes at this stage.
