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Wizz Air Fires 20% Of Its Staff

Robin Van Acker — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:40:37 +0000

The fact that many airlines are struggling because of the coronavirus crisis is obvious. Most companies are trying to ensure that their staff remain by placing them on furlough; unpaid or reduced-salary indefinite leave. For some, such as Wizz Air, this is not always possible. Fleet Wizz Air, like many other aviation-related companies, has had […]

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Lufthansa Group plans up to 50% fewer flights

Robin Van Acker — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 15:29:19 +0000

The coronavirus is the hub of every newspaper these days. Even in aviation one can’t get away from it. Many Asian airlines are cutting their network, but now that the virus is also on the rise in Europe, the European airlines see no other way out than to cut their network. Cutting into the network. […]

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AF-KLM sees its profits FALL AGAIN

Robin Van Acker — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:21:00 +0000

The French Dutch aviation giant is seeing its operating profit drop again. It has long been known that the aviation group has been making losses on various levels and that the French branch in particular, Air France, is largely responsible for this. Financial EUR 1.1 billion. This is the operating profit that Air France-KLM made […]

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Condor still BOOMING business after Thomas Cooks bankruptcy

Robin Van Acker — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:16:48 +0000

23 September 2019 will go down in history as a black day for the tourist industry. Thomas Cook, the oldest travel company in the world, can no longer pay the bills and goes bankrupt. 21,000 employees are anxiously waiting to see what would happen to them. However, not every branch of the British organisation has […]

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MiG-29K CRASHES during training flight

Robin Van Acker — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:13:31 +0000

Around noon, Indian time, a MiG-29K of the Indian Navy crashed during a training flight. The aircraft had only just left the airbase when it got into trouble. Not much later, the Russian-built aircraft hit the ground. This happened not far from Dabolim International Airport, located in the smallest Indian state of Goa. From the […]

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Alitalia looking for partners

Robin Van Acker — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:05:12 +0000

Alitalia is Italy’s, or perhaps even Europe’s, biggest worry child. The Italian airline Alitalia, goes down in history as a company with perhaps the most beautiful bankruptcy. The company has technically been bankrupt since the 24th April 2017, but its aircraft are still in the air; It is estimated that they make a loss of around 500,000 […]

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Qantas continues with 3rd EXTREME long flight

Robin Van Acker — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:51:50 +0000

The Australian airline Qantas is specializing more and more in distant flights. It is to be said, in extremely distant flights. The company itself calls the project ‘Project Sunrise’. In this project, research is being carried out into extremely long flights from Australia. Before the flight becomes effective, a team of experts investigates how the […]

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Ukrainian jet CRASH lands

Robin Van Acker — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:40:24 +0000

More and more old Soviet planes are disappearing from the stage. Also today an aircraft has found its final resting place. An Antonov An-12 made a crash landing near Lviv airport this morning, Friday 4 October 2019. Around 00:30 an Antonov An-12 (UR-CAH) of the Ukrainian Ukraine Air Alliance departed from Vigo airport, Spain, towards […]

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Air France-KLM doesn’t think about quitting the no-show principle

Robin Van Acker — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:54:30 +0000

Everybody thinks about taking a long trip to the other side of the world. Everyone also wonders why all this comes at such a high cost. As a result, people are always looking for the cheapest and most efficient route to fly to their destination. It is no secret that a ticket for a direct […]

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A look INSIDE the maintenance hangar of Antonov Airlines

Robin Van Acker — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:17:06 +0000

Me, Robin, one of the travel correspondents of Travel Radar, undertook a road trip in July from Ghent, a city in Belgium, to Yekaterinburg, a city in Asian Russia. On this road trip the focus was mainly on aviation. We have spotted at more than 20 airports. In Kiev we were able to take a […]

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