Aeronautical newsletter. The post-Covid recovery of transport in the skies is proceeding at great speed: the low cost company Ryanair announces that in June it carried 5.3 million passengers, compared to 400,000 in June a year ago; multiplication is by thirteen or more. Its flights in thirty days were 38,000 and the aircraft filling factor was 72%.
Luke Air, the new commercial brand of the Italian airline Blue Panorama Airlines, presented its new Airbus A330-200 dedicated to long-haul flights a few days ago at the port of Milan. The airline, after more than 20 years of long-haul scheduled and charter services with Boeing 767-300s, has started a renewal program in 2020 to make the fleet more efficient and the aircraft more comfortable.
The other two Airbus 330-200s, as foreseen by Blue Panorama Airlines’ international development plan, will be based in Warsaw and Prague airports. From Warsaw will operate flights to Cape Verde, Curaçao, Krabi (Thailand), Maldives, Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), Salalah (Oman), Santa Clara (Cuba) and Zanzibar; from Prague they will reach Maldives, Nosy Be (Madagascar), Punta Cana, Santa Clara and Zanzibar.
The British company easyJet Following the easing of the anti-Covid precautionary measures for those traveling between the United Kingdom and Italy, it will increase connections from 7 Italian airports to London Gatwick and Bristol. Flights between Bergamo Orio al Serio and Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schipol are also on sale, in addition to those already available for Olbia and Malaga.
Emirates launches Emirates Pay, a new payment method for purchasing airline tickets, currently available to customers in Germany and the United Kingdom who shop via emirates.com. It is the first airline in the world to launch this payment alternative based on a white label solution, developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in partnership with Deutsche Bank.