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SAS, via its official LinkedIn account, announced (12-Oct-2024) EuroBonus members booked more award trips than in any other 10 day period in 2024, in the first 10 days after joining SkyTeam in Sep-2024. Further highlights since joining the alliance include:

• 208,870 tickets redeemed on SkyTeam member airlines;
• 27,443 EuroBonus members flew with SkyTeam;
• 90 million passenger kilometres redeemed;
• 13 SkyTeam member airlines have received redemptions.

Condor Flugdienst announced (14-Oct-2024) it is reducing its flight programme from Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt by 13% in summer 2025, due to significantly increased costs at the airport. The carrier is also cancelling planned growth at the location with additional frequencies and completely new destinations. Connections to Samos and Malaga will be completely removed from the flight schedule, while frequencies to Kos will be significantly reduced. Condor had also planned to add four new destinations from Hamburg with several weekly frequencies. CEO Peter Gerber labelled the decisions "a logical consequence of the threat of a completely disproportionate increase in charges in Hamburg". Mr Gerber continued: "With these significantly increased costs, we are not only forced to relocate flights from Hamburg to other locations, but also to increase prices" adding "this is particularly regrettable for our customers there, especially as Hamburg had reliable solutions that would have prevented such a development". Condor is the third largest airline at the location, with its schedule from Hamburg including vacation destinations in Greece, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland, Madeira, Egypt, Italy, the Algarve and Türkiye. [more - original PR - German]

Sierra Leone's Ministry of Transport and Aviation, via its official Facebook account, announced (13-Oct-2024) Air Sierra Leone will commence operations on 02-Dec-2024. The carrier will operate services from Freetown to Abidjan, Accra, Monrovia, Banjul, Dakar, Conakry and London Gatwick Airport. Freetown-London service will be operated three times weekly with Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Emmanuel Iza has been appointed as CEO, with technical assistance to be provided by Xejet.

Airbus reported (09-Oct-2024) the following commercial aircraft orders and deliveries for Sep-2024:

• 50 deliveries to 29 customers;
  • AerCap: One A320neo (Sichuan Airlines) and one A321neo (Spirit Airlines);
  • Air Lease Corporation: One A220-100 (Bulgaria Air), one A220-300 (TAAG), one A321neo (ITA Airways) and three A321neos (Spirit Airlines);
  • Aviation Capital Group: One A321neo (Condor);
  • Avolon: One A320neo (Transavia France);
  • BOC Aviation: One A320neo (Nouvelair Tunisie);
  • Breeze Airways: One A220-300;
  • Cathay Pacific Aircraft Services: One A321neo (Cathay Pacific) and one A321neo (HK Express);
  • Cebu Pacific: One A321neo;
  • CDB Leasing: One A321neo (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines);
  • Chengdu Airlines: One A320neo;
  • China Eastern Airlines: One A320neo;
  • China Southern Airlines: One A320neo;
  • Delta Air Lines: Two A321neos, one A330-900 and one A350-900;
  • Frontier Airlines: One A321neo;
  • Gulf Air: One A321neo;
  • IndiGo: Three A320neos and six A321neos;
  • Japan Airlines: One A350-1000;
  • JetBlue Airways: One A220-300;
  • Juneyao Air: One A321neo;
  • Pegasus Airlines: Two A321neos;
  • Qantas Airways: One A220-300 (National Jet Systems) and one A321neo (Jetstar Airways);
  • Saudia: One A320neo (flyadeal);
  • Spring Airlines: One A320neo;
  • TAP Air Portugal: One A320neo;
  • Tibet Airlines: One A319neo;
  • Turkish Airlines: One A321neo, one A350-900;
  • VietJet Air: One A321neo;
  • Viva Aerobus: One A321neo;
  • Wizz Air: One A321neo;
• Gross orders: 235;
  • CDB Leasing: 15 A320neos and 65 A321neos;
  • Cebu Pacific: 70 A321neos;
  • Undisclosed: 20 A320neos, 55 A321neos, five A350-900s and five A350-1000s. [more - original PR]

Global Airlines, via its official LinkedIn account, announced (04-Oct-2024) its first A380 (9H-GLOBL, MSN 120) departed Glasgow to undergo MRO and inspection works in Dresden. The announcement follows a 23-Sep-2024 "multi-million euro" agreement with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), with EFW to provide MRO services to facilitate the aircraft's entry into service.

Japan Airlines (JAL) and Garuda Indonesia signed (03-Oct-2024) a joint business agreement, after Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLITT) approved JAL's antitrust immunity application. JAL president and group CEO Mitsuko Tottori stated: "We expect to launch this joint business relationship in the second quarter of 2025 to provide additional travel benefits for our mutual customers". As previously reported by CAPA, the two airlines commenced codeshare services in Oct-2018. [more - original PR]