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Chris Gray
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In brief
Air Mauritius aims
■ Monarch boosts Easter flights to Faro
Monarch has added nine extra flights between
Gatwick and Faro between April 1 to 17 to cover for daily comeback
the Easter period. It will operate eight flights a
week to the destination with daily flights on
Chris Gray.
Tuesdays and Sundays and twice daily flights FORMER SANDALS UK managing
on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. director Tony Cowles (pictured) has
joined Air Mauritius and is aiming to
■ EasyJet grows package holiday offering return the airline to a daily UK service.
EasyJet is expanding its package holiday destina- The carrier had a daily service out of
tions by adding Tel Aviv, Dubrovnik and Larnaca Heathrow until the recession but is now
to the places where its website can match flights down to four a week, and five in peak
to hotels. Bookings are protected by the Travel Easter and summer seasons.
Trust Association. “Our goal is to get back to the seven
day operation. We want to see how the
■ Germanwings starts Stansted-Hanover service economy picks up and that will drive
Germanwings is starting a twice-daily service our business. We are getting good sup-
between Stansted and Hanover from April 29. port from the tour operators and seat- British Airways and Virgin Atlantic,
Stansted is one of 15 destinations targeting only operators,” he said. but Cowles said Air Mauritius had
leisure and business travel to the airline’s new Cowles joined the airline last week the edge because it had a higher
base at Hanover. after leaving Sandals in November frequency than BA’s thrice-weekly
2008. It is a return to the aviation operation and Virgin Atlantic’s
■ Amadeus prepares for reshuffle industry as he had previously worked twice-weekly.
Amadeus chief executive David Jones will be for Air Jamaica. Emirates also operates on the
succeeded by his deputy and chief financial He also spent his time in-between jobs route but Cowles said the stop in Dubai put off
officer Luis Maroto at the end of this year. Other volunteering for the Orbis charity, which uses many customers.
changes will see Ana de Pro appointed chief an aircraft to visit rural areas in developing The airline operates a two-class service on the
financial officer and Sabine Hansen Peck made countries and offer eye treatment. route but relies heavily on leisure traffic, working
vice-president, human resources. Air Mauritius will run roadshows with the Mau- with operators such as Thomas Cook Signature,
ritius Tourism Promotion Authority in the spring Kuoni, Virgin Holidays and Tui.
■ Lufthansa returns to Iraq after 20-year gap to promote the airline to the trade.
Lufthansa plans to launch services to Baghdad, Its two main competitors on the route are ■ Mauritius quad bike tours, p55
and Erbil in Iraq via Frankfurt and Munich next
summer. It will be the first major European airline
to return to the country and the first time it has
flown there since the end of the Gulf War in 1990. Dubai and Africa lead recovery
■
Jet2.com offers free flight to rescue lions AIRLINE capacity grew by 3% to 294.6 million with 5% more flights and 3% more seats.
Jet2.com has pledged to fly a pride of neglected seats worldwide in January compared with the Frequency and capacity between Western
lions from a Romanian zoo to Yorkshire free of year before, according to aviation data firm OAG. Europe and the Middle East both showed an in-
charge this February as part of the It is the fifth successive month capacity has crease of 7%, with 1,002 more flights and 194,307
biggest ever big cat rescue. The air- increased, which OAG said showed airlines were more seats compared with January 2009.
line has joined forces with Yorkshire steadily but cautiously expanding to follow early Routes between Western Europe and Africa
Wildlife Park to charter a one-off signs of recovery. showed strong growth, with flights up 19%, or
flight to rescue a pride of 13 lions Frequencies also increased by 2% compared 3,887, and seats up 18%, or 690,790.
which is being held in cramped with January 2009, with a total of 2.37 million However, the market between North America
conditions, facing an uncertain flights scheduled for this month. and Western Europe fell 5% or 287,979 seats. Fre-
future at Oradea Zoo in Romania. No-frills airlines showed bigger growth than quencies were down 6%, or 1,274 fewer flights.
the sector as a whole, with frequency and capac- Of the major international hubs, Dubai saw the
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