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Ryanair to fly from Norwich for the first time – Business Traveller
7Dec By adminNo Comments
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Ryanair to fly from Norwich for the first time – Business Traveller

Ryanair has announced three new summer seasonal routes from Norwich – the airline’s first services from the East Anglian airport. The low-cost carrier will operate a total of 12 weekly flights to and from the airport, with twice-weekly services to Alicante, Faro and Malta from 1 April, 2024. Norwich will be Ryanair’s 22nd UK airport – none of the routes are currently served from the city. The airline will join a handful of airlines currently offering flights from the airport, including KLM’s year-round services to Amsterdam, Loganair’s year-round flights to Aberdeen, Blue Island’s seasonal route to Jersey, and TUI’s seasonal flights to Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Ibiza, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos and Rhodes (as well as a year-round service to Tenerife). Commenting on the news Ryan...
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Virgin Atlantic to fly 100 per cent SAF transatlantic flight – Business Traveller
29Nov By adminNo Comments
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Virgin Atlantic to fly 100 per cent SAF transatlantic flight – Business Traveller

Virgin Atlantic is set to operate the first transatlantic flight powered by 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed London Heathrow for New York JFK International at 1130, under the label ‘Flight100’. Commercial aircraft are currently limited to a maximum blend of 50 per cent SAF and 50 per cent conventional jet fuel, but this flight will mark the first time that a commercial airline has operated a 100 per cent SAF-fuelled transatlantic flight. Virgin aims to prove that SAF is a “safe drop-in replacement for fossil derived jet fuel”, meaning that it can be used on the current engines and aircraft. The SAF used on this flight will be a blend of 88 per cent hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) and 12 per cent synthetic aromatic ker...
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United Airlines wants to fly from Haneda to Houston – Business Traveller
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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United Airlines wants to fly from Haneda to Houston – Business Traveller

United Airlines has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for daily nonstop flights between Tokyo’s Haneda airport and Houston’s Bush Intercontinental airport. If approved, United will become the first U.S. carrier to offer a nonstop service between Houston and Haneda. In its pitch to the DOT, United argues that the new route would benefit the Houston region’s rapidly growing population, 240+ Japanese-affiliated companies, as well as consumers living in communities across the Southern U.S. While Houston has only one flight to Haneda (operated daily by All Nippon Airways with Boeing 787-9 aircraft), New York/Newark has five, Los Angeles has seven, Chicago has three, and Washington, D.C. and Dallas/Fort Worth each have two. United’s Tokyo service current...
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United will fly to 38 transatlantic cities in summer 2024 – Business Traveller
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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United will fly to 38 transatlantic cities in summer 2024 – Business Traveller

United Airlines says it will operate its largest ever transatlantic schedules next summer, with new routes, additional frequencies and an earlier start to the season. The US carrier will become the first and only airline to offer nonstop flights between the US and Faro, with a four-times-weekly service from New York’s Newark airport starting on 24 May, 2024. The Boeing 757-200 route will add to United’s existing Portguese services between Newark and Lisbon, Washington Dulles and Lisbon, Newark and Porto, and Newark and Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Meanwhile the carrier will resume seasonal flights between Newark and Reykjavik on 23 May next year, for the first time since summer 2022, and will add second daily frequencies between Newark and Brussels, and between Washington and Rome. Sever...
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China Eastern to fly to Brisbane – Business Traveller
15Sep By adminNo Comments
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China Eastern to fly to Brisbane – Business Traveller

China Eastern Airlines has announced that it will resume nonstop services between Shanghai and Brisbane from 31 October. China’s second largest airline will commence with three flights per week, rising to daily seasonal flights from 8 December 2023 for the peak of the travel season. China Eastern Airlines will deploy widebody Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the route, carrying 232 passengers across a two-class configuration. Recently, other Chinese carrier, China Southern Airlines, also confirmed its return to Brisbane from Guangzhou, with A350-900 aircraft. “This is another sign Queensland’s Chinese tourism market is set to roar back to life. We are delighted to welcome Shanghai back to the BNE destination map. Shanghai is China’s largest city and a commercial hub, making it a key city ...
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