Aer Lingus/Ryanair on Bologna-Dublin by summer 2009

Aer Lingus and Ryanair will operate in clash on Bologna-Dublin by summer season 2009.
Uploading the new summer services, Aer Lingus confirms three times a week the seasonal Bologna-Dublin. Ryanair will begin to fly on the leg by Oct 27 twice a week and in summer they'll increase until 4xweek.
Aer Lingus (Ryanair owns 31% of shares) will work on tuesday, thursday and saturday. Ryanair will fly in the remaining days.

MyAir have closed Brindisi and Catania

MyAir continues to give up services from Bologna. They has recently cutted two domestic routes to Southern Italy: Brindisi (by Sept 26) and Catania (Sept 30).
Operated three times a week flights to Brindisi were commened in June 2005. Catania is a route resumed in last March and operated daily. The decison to drop these services is connected to a network reduction and not by the load factor again positive until now.

Neos owns Cancun service in winter

Neos will have in the hands the weekly service to Cancun operated on behalf for Alpitour and Francorosso.
Its a weekly service operated on thursdays with B767/300ERs.
Bologna-Cancun 12.00-19.00 via Roma thursday
Cancun-Bologna 20.40-15.30+1 non stop

SAB ends with Forlì airport

The divorce now is consumed. SAB - Bologna airport managing company have left stake participation in SEAF - Forlì airport company. After eyars where SEAF have lose a lot of money with financial year closed with huge highest losses. SAB have not participate into the support for cover losses matured in FY 2007 for more than 3,7 million €.
The local scene is full of attacks especially coming from Forlì local authorites against Bologna for its refuse to cover losses due to they has owned a 17% batch of shares in the company.
On last friday after that deadline is expired Franco Rusticali Head of SEAF have affirmed the intention to order to a lawyer office about if there are ways to proceede against SAB.
SAB in a press release affirmed to be happy to say that and hopefully they want that a court will clear the situation.

AirOne to Naples is now three times a day

By Oct 2008, regular flights to Naples are back to three times a day.
They have resumed the evening rotation operated with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Naples-Bologna 19.00-20.05
Bologna-Naples 20.40-21.50

AirOne publish winter timetable

No updates or new additions in AirOne winter timetable effective by Oct 26 2008.
They has published the timetable despite AirOne will merge into CAI-Compagnia Aerea Italiana when process to obtain AOC is terminated.
AirOne will offer direct services to:
Alghero, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Bari, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Lamezia Terme, daily with 159 seater A320s,
Naples, 19 flight a week with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Services to Athens are via Naples and available from Bologna to Athens on monday, wednesday, friday only. Northward from Athens to Bologna are available on monday, wednesday, friday and sunday.

Two more routes for Wizzair

Wizzair have look very well to the market with origin from this Northern East gateway with catchment area that overlook Tuscany and Marche. They'll add in 2009 two more routes servicing Bucuresti Baneasa and Cluj Napoca.
March 3 2009:
tuesday/thursday/saturday
Bologna-Bucarest Baneasa 08:10 - 11:05 W6 738 A320
Bucarest Baneasa-Bologna 06:10 - 07:25 W6 737 A320
May 2 2009:
Bologna-Cluj Napoca 08:05 - 10:45 W6 798 A320
Cluj Napoca-Bologna 06:20 - 07:20 W6 797 A320
180 seaterAirbus A320s will fly the routes.
From a long time ago was rumored the landing of Wizzair in that part of Italy.
Centralwings game over have expedite this process and they as first have took place on Katowice (Krakow area) and Warsaw. Now they'll have open Bucuresti and Cluj.

Alitalia drops flight at 9am to Rome

On the way of current company policy to reduce and cut services, reduce frequencies or change flight equipments. Alitalia with effect Oct 6 2008 it will drops the daily service to Rome scheduled at 9am from monday to saturdays and operated by EMB170s.
They continue to fly Rome with four daily flights operated by Boeing MD82s.

Blue Panorama resumes flights to Cayo Largo

Blue Panorama will resume charter services by Dec 23 2008 from Bologna to Cayo Largo.
Its a weekly flight with intermedisate stop in Havana. This charter chain begins before Christmas and is available until late spring 2009.
This pearl in the Caribbean was previously served two years ago and not restarted last year.
274 seater B767/300ERs is on the route to lift holidayers every tuSchedule is:
Tuesdays 23DEC08-28APR09
Bologna-Havana 10:50-17:15
Havana-Cayo Largo 18:50-19:30
Cayo Largo-Bologna 20:30-13:15
esdays.

OnAir Bologna-L'viv flight is now annual

Thanks to success matured in these three months of operations, OnAir that manages charter route Bologna-L'viv have decided to operate in on all year round basis.
Flight commenced on June 16 and planned to stop on Sept 22 are now scheduled until end of March 2009.
With effect Oct 6 2008 flights are every two weeks, and weekly on Christmas holidays peak times. Ukraine International is the chartered carrier and it use 164 seater B737/400s, yet every mondays.
These are the days of operations:
Year 2008

Oct 6 and 20, Nov 3 and 17, Dec 1-15-22-29.

Year 2009

Jan 5-12-19, Feb 2 and 16, Mar 2 and 16.

Timetable with effect Oct 6 2008:

Bologna-L'viv 13:25-16:45

L'viv-Bologna 11:30-12:35

OnAir is a tour operator that manages flights from Pescara and Bologna to the East Europe. Company website is at www.flyonair.com