| LAN Airlines to launch Flights to Paris |
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Starting 2 September 2010, LAN Airlines will initiate service to Paris, France. LAN will offer three weekly flights on the Santiago, Chile - Madrid - Paris route aboard modern Airbus A340 aircraft.
This new route will be the third destination serviced by LAN Airlines in Europe. Currently, the airline provides service to Frankfurt and to Madrid and connects those cities to Latin America’s principal cities.
Subject to regulatory approval, LAN will fly every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from Santiago to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris. Return flights will depart Paris on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
The LAN Airbus A340 aircraft which will operate this route seat 263 passengers
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| Etihad adds Seoul |
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Etihad Airways plans to commence operations to the South Korean capital, Seoul, on 12 December.
The airline will operate a daily return service to Seoul’s Incheon Airport from its home base in Abu Dhabi, operating Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the route. The aircraft will be configured with three cabins, offering 2,800 seats each week to and from Seoul.
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| A330F for Etihad |
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Etihad will take delivery of two brandnew A330-200F in August and September 2010. The new A330F will be deployed to Hahn, Germany (increasing this frequency from 2 to 4 weekly flights) as well as to HKG (new Etihad destination as of October 2010). TSN will see more flights, as well as NDJ and NGO. The MD11F will fly from October onwards daily to PVG and Lagos will be relaunched once a week.
As of December 2010, Etihad will operate 1 daily flight into Seoul Incheon.
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| ABC fleet grows to 9 747 Freighters |
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Less than two weeks after taking delivery of its fifth Boeing 747-400, AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Group and Russia’s largest international cargo carrier, has added a sixth B747-400ERF, increasing its total 747 fleet to nine aircraft.
The latest aircraft is being leased from Air France and joined the ABC fleet on April 13th. This investment is in support of Volga-Dnepr Group’s strategy of continued fleet and network expansion.
Tatyana Arslanova, ABC’s Executive President, said: “Enlargement of our fleet is one of the core parts of ABC’s strategy, which is targeted at development and enhancement of our service quality. Bringing in additional aircraft, especially the highly efficient, long-range Boeing 747-400ERF will improve our punctuality and allow us to increase the number of frequencies on all the routes in our network.
“By expanding our fleet with these two latest B747-400 freighters, we are also able to take one of our Boeing 747-200Fs out of our scheduled aircraft fleet and reserve it for charter operations. Having this additional capacity in reserve will also help to guarantee ABC’s schedule stability and consistency and produce a positive impact on the airline’s overall service quality.”
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