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Air Europa expands in South America
BA last served Santiago from 1993 to 2000
BA adds longest route with Santiago return
British Airways (BA) is to introduce the only direct air service between the UK and Chile from early next year when it inaugurates a four-times-weekly link between London’s Heathrow Airport and Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago. The new non-stop offering will mark its return to a market it previously served as a tag on an existing link into South America.
The new flight will launch on
January 3, 2017, and be operated using a four-class Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with capacity for 216 seats, including a special eight-suite First cabin. It is part of the airline’s strategy to grow its activities in South America and follows the recent launch of links between its London hub and San Jose
Norwegian set to fly long-haul from Edinburgh
European budget carrier Norwegian has revealed that it is now considering launching transatlantic flights from Edinburgh as well as potentially introducing UK domestic services. Norwegian began flying from
Edinburgh Airport in 2009 and has now flown more than one million
in Costa Rica and Lima in Peru. It also operates to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil, and Buenos Aires in Argentina. “In recent years we have been
increasing our services to South and Central America reflecting the area’s continued growth in both business and tourism,” said Alex Cruz, BA chairman and CEO. BA previously served Santiago between 1993 and 2000 but as a tag on its flights into Buenos Aires. The new non-stop offering at 14 hours 40 minutes is nearly an hour longer than BA’s current longest flight of 13 hours 50 minutes to Buenos Aires and covers a distance of 7,235 miles, versus the 6,888 miles for the London-Buenos Aires city pair.
passengers with services to six destinations in Scandinavia, Spain and the Mediterranean (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Barcelona, Tenerife and Malaga). But the airline’s CEO, Bjorn Kjos, said that this was only the beginning of its plans and it has ambitions for further new routes from Edinburgh, including the possibility of new transatlantic flights using state-of the-art new aircraft such as the new Boeing 737 MAX. “Edinburgh will play an important
Spanish carrier Air Europa is to further extend its network into South America during the winter 2016-17 schedule with new links into Argentina and Ecuador. Subject to government approval, the SkyTeam alliance member will introduce flights from its Madrid base to both Córdoba in Argentina and Guayaquil in Ecuador from the middle of December 2016. The airline will introduce a new five-times-weekly service between Madrid and Guayaquil’s José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport from December 18, 2016, while at the same time its existing four-times- weekly service between the Spanish capital and Asunción in Paraguay will be extended to also serve Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. Both routes will be served
using Airbus A330-200 aircraft with the expansion being made possible by the arrival of new Boeing 787 Dreamliners allowing the redeployment of the Airbus widebodies into new markets.
Air Europa will have new links to Argentina and Ecuador
role in our future UK growth and our long-term ambition is for us to deliver new and direct long-haul flights from Edinburgh,” he said. “We will also be looking into how we can create new routes from Edinburgh that can feed into our fast-growing global network at London Gatwick airport, which would further boost the choices available to Scottish passengers,” he added.
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