[AS 6.2] AERO PARADISE NEWS

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MAJOR EXPANSION AT AERO BRITAIN

Today, London/Heathrow's largest airline AERO BRITAIN has announced it will embark on major expansion plans from it's main hub. This is due to the finalising of a deal to acquire FIFTEEN more IL8Ds as well as 8 DC8s. 3 of the DC8's were intended for the leisure fleet but those plans have been scrapped in favour of improving the LHR hub.

This will involve frequency increases as well as brand new routes worldwide. Boston, Washington, Dubai & Delhi will all receive frequency increases whilst there will be new routes to the USA, India and our first routes to Canada and Pakistan. Our European routes will gain a major boost in frequencies as well as brand new routes also.

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PARIS GOES DOUBLE DAILY

With the arrival of the airline's SEVENTH Douglas DC8 aircraft, Doha based carrier Aero Qatar has doubled frequencies on its route to Paris/CDG to TWICE DAILY. This now means the airline is offering an extra 2000 seats per week on the route, including 476 premium seats.

QTR043 departs Doha at 1500 daily, arriving into Charles de Gaulle at 1900. The return QTR044 departs Paris at 2145 and arrives back into Doha at around 0545. The inbound service offers convenient connections onto regional services around the middle east and India.

When the Eighth and Ninth DC8s are delivered they will enable us to start a FOURTH London/Heathrow route as well as our first route to SINGAPORE. 

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FIRST ROUTES ANNOUNCED

With the delivery of our first 6 IL18Ds, new Buenos Aries based carrier Aero Argentina has announced it's initial round of flights. We are starting service to SEVEN domestic destinations as well as Santiago de Chile and Montivideo in Uruguay. These are configured with 95 CondorTraveller and 15 CondorClub seats providing our passengers with plenty of comfort on our flights.

Schedule as follows

  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Cordoba NEW Five times daily service 
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Iguazu NEW Two times daily service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Mar Del Plata NEW Daily service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Mendoza NEW Three times daily service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Montevideo NEW Daily Service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Rosario NEW Thirteen times weekly service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Salta NEW Daily service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Santiago De Chile NEW Daily service
  • Buenos Aires Ezeiza - Ushuaia NEW Twice Daily Service

With Four IL18Ds and two DC8s due to be delivered more and more routes will come on board including our first Long Haul route to Miami.

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SECOND B747 DELIVERED

This week London/Heathrow's leading airline Aero Britain has added it's second B747-400 to the fleet.

The aircraft is configured with 24 GlobalClub flatbeds on the upper deck, 12 GlobalFirst in the nose of the plane on the lower deck, with 32 more GlobalClub Flatbeds behind them with 279 GlobalTraveller recliner seats also on the lower deck.

This aircraft is being used to increase capacity on some of our slot constrained routes. We have replaced a DC8 on 3 of our weekly flights from London/Heathrow to Hong Kong. The route is a heavy premium and the increase in capacity was urgently needed but the lack of slots was an issue. Also we have added an extra weekly flight to Dubai taking us up to 15 weekly flights on the route.

Not only this but we have added a few more DC8s to the fleet. These have been used on a vast amount of frequency increases as well as starting a new service to SINGAPORE. This airport is a major Skyconnect gateway to South Asia.

Operational changes are as follows

London/Heathrow - Athens Service increased from Daily to 10xWeekly (BAW642/643 Tu,Th,Sa)

London/Heathrow - Bangkok Service increased from 6 to 9 times weekly (BAW33/34 Mo,We,Fr)

London/Heathrow - Dubai Service increases from 2xDaily to 15xWeekly (BAW105/106 Tu)

London/Heathrow - Istanbul/Ataturk Service increased from 8 to 13 times weekly

London/Heathrow - Hong Kong DC8 replaced by B744 3xWeekly

London/Heathrow - Karachi Service increased from Daily to 8xWeekly

London/Heathrow - Kuwait Service increased from 2 to 4xweekly DC8/744 mix

London/Heathrow - New York/JFK service increased from 29 to 32 times weekly EQV

London/Heathrow - Sao Paulo Garulhos service increased to 4xWeekly

London/Heathrow - Singapore NEW Daily service (BAW51/52 & 53/54)

London/Heathrow - Tel Aviv Service increased to 6xWeekly

We now have over 1200 flights per week from London/Heathrow worldwide

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NEW AIRCRAFT TYPE INTRODUCED

This week, Aero Panama has introduced a BRAND NEW aircraft type to it's fleet - The Boeing 737-700ER. Configured with a larger cabin of 102 PanamaTraveller and 15 PanamaClub this aircraft boasts huge range, allowing us to reach further into South America. With this we have been able to start our THIRD destination in Brazil with a daily flight to the capital Brasilia. With this longer range aircraft we are able to significantly increase our reach across the Americas even further.

Other operational changes are as follows

Panama - Brasilia NEW Daily B73W service

Panama - Bridgetown NEW Daily service

Panama - Cancun Service increased from 2 to 4 times daily IL8/B73W mix

Panama - Caracas Service increased from 3 to 4 times daily

Panama - Cartagena NEW daily service

Panama - Guadalajara NEW six times weekly service

Panama - Lima service increased from 2xDaily to 17xweekly

Panama - Medellin Service increased from 1 to 3 times Daily

Panama - Mexico City Service increased from 2 to 4 times daily

Panama - New York/JFk Service increased from daily to 11 times weekly

Panama - Orlando NEW Daily service

Panama - San Salvador Service increased from Daily to 13 times weekly

Panama - Santo Domingo service increased from daily to 2 times daily

These additions take us to around 452 weekly departures from PTY to 25 destinations in 12 countries around the Americas. We are the largest airline at PTY with around a 35% market share at the airport.

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NEW CORPORATE LOGO INTRODUCED

To differentiate the airline from it's competitors, Doha based Aero Qatar has revealed it's new corporate logo.

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We have utilised white and grey to provide a brighter look to our identity. Most competitors are predominantly maroon so we wanted to stand out amongst the rest.

NEW AIRCRAFT TYPE INTRODUCED

To coincide with the new logo, Aero Qatar has also decided to introduce a new aircraft type - ILYUSHIN IL62M. This aircraft has massive range with similar capacity to the DC8. This was decided to the backlog in DC8 production so something was needed as a stop gap.

These will only be configured in a 2-Class configuration of 25 QatarPremium and 144 QatarTraveller seats. This gives us greater flexibility to meet the demand of routes and of frequencies where the premium and economy demand may differ.

The first aircraft has been delivered and is already showing it's flexibility where we have replaced the DC8 on 1 of our 4 daily London/Heathrow flight. The flight was at a less convenient time for connections than others so the amount of premium demand wasn't there but economy was.

The DC8 freed up from the LHR service has been used to start s SECOND flight to Mumbai as well as our first flight to Pakistan with a daily flight to KARACHI.

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TWO MORE B747S ACQUIRED

This week, London/Heathrow based Aero Britain has acquired its 3rd and 4th B747-400 aircraft. The aircraft are configured with 24 GlobalClub flatbeds on the upper deck, 12 GlobalFirst in the nose of the plane on the lower deck, with 32 more GlobalClub Flatbeds behind them with 279 GlobalTraveller recliner seats on the lower deck, and will be used to increase our growing Long Haul Services.

The first 747 has been delivered and is being used to bolster our services to Los Angeles & Johannesburg. Replacing 3 DC8 flights now means that 6 of the 13 weekly services to LAX are now operated by B747. Johannesburg has increased to 12 weekly with an addition of a Sunday flight, the first on the B747.

In other news we have started new international services to Toronto, Mexico City, Tunis, Algiers, Casablanca, Cairo, Orlando and Barbados. The former 6 are all new destinations on our network including our first forays into Canada, Mexico and North Africa. Orlando and Barbados have been transferred from our Stansted operation....

 

LEISURE SERVICE PULLED

In a remarkable turn of events Aero Britain  has decided to revamp the so called "Leisure" operation based in London/Stansted. Instead the airport will be used as a reliever for LHR, operating select European, domestic and international routes.

The CEO said "We have done this to enable our operation to separate into a completely separate brand. This means the world renowned quality and service is upheld at Aero Britain".

Long Haul services to Orlando and Barbados have switched to LHR whilst the majority of routes ex STN have been kept. Routes to Palma, Greece and the canaries have been pulled but will soon be replaced by a new raft of services to European capitals. In the future long haul will deployed to key markets including New York, Dubai and Pakistan/India.

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NEW LEISURE AIRLINE ANNOUNCED

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Coinciding with the announcement of the revamp at London/Stansted. The AB Group announced it is incorporating an all new airline into service. Roysun Airways and its travel Agency Roysun Holidays has been established with the aim of being the primary travel company for the UK. Headquartered in Manchester, the airline will begin operations with 2 IL18s and a IL62. Short haul planes will be in an all economy club configuration with 120 seats whilst the long haul will 20 "Premium Club" and 138 "Economy Club" Seats.

Manchester and London/Stansted have both received a single IL18 each, and will have the following flying programme:

Manchester

  • Algarve (Faro) - Flights departing Tuesdays & Thursdays
  • Gran Canaria (Las Palmas) - Flights departing on a Sunday
  • Malaga - Flights departing Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays
  • Majorca (Palma) Flights departing Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays
  • Rovaniemi - Ski Charter flight departing on a Sunday
  • Tenerife (South) - Flights departing Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays

London/Stansted

  • Algarve (Faro) - Flights departing Tuesdays & Thursdays
  • Gran Canaria (Las Palmas) - Flights departing on a Sunday
  • Malaga - Flights departing Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays
  • Majorca (Palma) Flights departing Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays
  • Rovaniemi - Ski Charter flight departing on a Sunday
  • Tenerife (South) - Flights departing Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays

With the IL62M due to be delivered we will be offering a series of flights to Florida (Orlando), Barbados and potentially Cancun.

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SECOND B737 ARRIVED

This week, Panama's leading carrier Aero Panama has received the second of a Three Aircraft order for Boeing's 737-700W aircraft. The aircraft provides slightly higher capacity and huge range allowing us to further our reach in the Americas.

With this we have started our first long haul route with a daily connection to Sao Paulo Garulhos. This is timed perfectly to seamlessly connect to/from our Central & North American services. In addition we have started our first service to Honduras with a daily connection to TEGUCIGALPA.

These two new additions now mean we operate around 66 daily flights to 27 destinations throughout the Americas.

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KANGAROO SERVICE LAUNCHED

In what is a monumental moment for the airline, Doha based Aero Qatar has launched operations the Kangaroo Route from Europe to Australia. Whilst it already offered many Europe flights, it has now launched it's service to Australia with PERTH its first destination. The CEO said "We have been eagerly awaiting one of our new DC8s as we were excited that we were joining the Kangaroo Route. Now customers can experience our world renowned quality and hospitality"

Customers flying to/from Perth will now have seamless connection to/from a plethora of Middle Eastern destinations as well as around 10 destinations in Europe.

Flight QTR420 will depart Doha 0220hrs on Mondays, Wednesday & Fridays and landing in Perth at 1810hrs same day. The return QTR421 will depart Perth at 2330hrs on the same day, arriving back into Doha at 0520hrs the following day.

The DC-8-62 operating the service offers our customers 4 QatarFirst, 30  QatarPremium and 114 QatarTraveller seats.

With more and more IL62s & DC8s coming on board we have started no less than FOURTEEN new routes. They are as follows

  • Ammam - Daily IL6
  • Bangalore - Daily IL6
  • Cairo - Daily IL6
  • Chennai Daily IL6
  • Colombo - Twice Daily IL6
  • Frankfurt - Daily DC8
  • Istanbul - 5xWeekly IL6
  • Johannesburg - Daily DC8
  • Karachi - Increased to THREE TIMES DAILY
  • Kuala Lumpur - Daily DC8
  • Lahore - Daily IL6
  • Manchester - Daily IL6
  • Mumbai - Increased to 3 x times daily EQV
  • Rome - 4xWeekly DC8
  • Sharjah - Daily IL6

The addition of 5 new routes to Europe was decided to ensure we give a full offering on our new Australian and Asian services

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NEW B777 SUB TYPE ORDERED

Today, London/Heathrow's leading airline Aero Britain announced it has introduced a new sub type to its B777 fleet. The Boeing 777-200ER (Extended Range) aircraft provides the same capacity as our normal B777-200s whilst having almost double the range of it's counterpart. It will be configured with 12 GlobalFirst, 48 GlobalClub & 171 GlobalTraveller seats and will be deployed on routes to the West Coast USA and Asia where the B747 is too much capacity.

Reports are that Las Vegas will be the first destination for this plane.

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FIRST OF 5 NEW DC8s DELVIERED

Today Amsterdam based carrier AB Cargo has received the first of a new batch of 5 DC-8-62 freighter aircraft. With this new 41 ton aircraft are the following operational changes:

Amsterdam - Doha - Bangkok NEW 1xWeekly service

Amsterdam - Dubai Service increased to 6xWeekly

Amsterdam - Nairobi Service increased to 2xWeekly (Full service to Nairobi increased 6xWeekly - 4 via Doha)

Amsterdam - New York/JFK NEW 2xWeekly service

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THIRD B737 DELIVERED

With the arrival of the third B737-700W aircraft, Panama's leasing airline Aero Panama  has started it's first route to California with a new daily flight to the "City of Angels" LOS ANGELES. The city is one of the world's global cities with huge demand to South America.

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FIRST B777-200ER delivered

This week, London/Heathrow based Aero Britain has received the first of 3 Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. Due to it's longer range than the 'A' variant it has enabled us to start a brand new service to the gambling capital of the world LAS VEGAS. Three weekly flights will be aimed at both business and leisure passengers alike, providing and even bigger offering to North America where we already served 9 destinations.

Schedule

BAW227 LHR1045 - 1237LAS 77E 135

BAW228 LAS1550 - 0942LHR 773 135

Also we have added a new twice weekly Bahrain service, using the B77E & B744 on one flight each. In addition we have added an extra B77E flight to Dubai, increasing our service to 16xweekly on the route.

The other 2 that will soon be delivered will start to replace the DC8s operating our services, as we look to phase out the aircraft.

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AERO QATAR MAKES MOVE TO AIRBUS

This week, Doha based AERO QATAR has this week announced the start of it's intention to switch to an all-Airbus operation. Already the airline has received a BRAND NEW Airbus A330-200 aircraft and currently has 2 Airbus A320-200s on order. The A330 is configured with 12 QatarFirst, 36  QatarPremium and 160 QatarTraveller seats and has replaced a DC8 the was operating one of our FIVE daily London/Heathrow services.

The A320s will be used regionally around the middle east, replacing two IL18ds. The replaced aircraft will be transferred to sister carriers Roysun Airways and euro Jet to expand their operations.

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MANCHESTER BASE EXPANDS SIGNIFICANTLY

With the addition of an IL18 and a IL62M to the Manchester fleet. Leisure carrier Roysun Airways has significantly expanded it's operation at the North West airport with the addition of FIVE new routes and frequency increases on others.

In the Long Haul segment we have started flights to Cancun in Mexico and Punta Cana in the Dominican republic. Both are major holiday destinations and are available on excellent holiday packaged through our travel agency Roysun Holidays. Not only this but we have we have increased our offering to Barbados and Orlando with a SECOND and FOURTH weekly flight respectively.

In the short haul segment we have started new routes from Manchester to Ibiza, Dalaman & Lanzarote. All 3 destinations boast outstanding beaches as well stunning local culture to visit. Ibiza being the party capital of the world offers some of the best nightclubs worldwide.

New operation schedule is as follows

Manchester - Bridgetown EXTRA flight departing on a Tuesday (Now 2xWeekly)

Manchester - Cancun NEW flights departing Wednesday, Friday, Sunday

Manchester - Dalaman NEW flights departing Tuesdays and Fridays

Manchester - Ibiza NEW flights departing Thursdays & Sundays

Manchester - Lanzarote NEW flights departing Mondays and Wednesdays

Manchester - Las Palmas EXTRA flight departing on a Thursday (Now 2xWeekly)

Manchester - Florida (Orlando) EXTRA flight departing on a Saturday (Now 4xWeekly)

Manchester - Punta Cana NEW flight departing on a Monday

Manchester - Tenerife EXTRA flight departing on a Sunday (Now 4xWeekly)

London/Stansted - Tenerife EXTRA flight departing on a Saturday (Now 3xWeekly)

These new service massively increase our holiday offering to many destinations, meaning more customers can now choose the perfect destination and holiday for them. Package deal to all resorts offering hundreds of hotels can now be booked through Roysun Holidays

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TWO MORE B777S RECEIVED, FLEET PLANS OUTLINED

This week, London/Heathrow based AERO BRITAIN has received the final 2 of a 3 aircraft order for the B777-200ER. These have both been used to replace the first few of our Douglas DC8 aircraft. One has replaced a DC8 on 3 weekly flights to Sao Paulo and 4 weekly flights to Tel Aviv. This represents a 64% increase in capacity per leg on the route.

The second aircraft has been introduced in a brand new 2-Class configuration. This removal of first class from the planes enables more flexibility in the services on offer for our customers. It is configured with 48 GlobalClub and 225 GlobalTraveller seats and has replaced a DC8 operating our services to Cairo and has increased services to Barbados from 1 to 4xWeekly.

LONG HAUL FLEET PLANS OUTLINED

Today Aero Britain has outlined its future long haul fleet plans. All DC8s will be replaced with new widebody aircraft - B747, B787, B777 & A380 aircraft. The plans are as follows:

  • B747-400 High F - Configured with 12 GlobalFirst, 56 GlobalClub & 279 GlobalTraveller seats, these B747s will deployed on high premium routes worldwide with the demand for a lot of First Class.
  • B747-400 Low F - Configured with 8 GlobalFirst, 56 GlobalClub & 297 GlobalTraveller seats these lower F configured planes will deployed on routes with less F-Class demand but are still busy routes. Currently we have reconfigured a B747 that is operating 3 Weekly flights to Sao Paulo/Garulhos.
  • B777-200ER 3-Class High F - Configured with 12 GlobalFirst, 48 GlobalClub & 171 GlobalTraveller seats this again will deployed on worldwide routes. Currently is deployed on services to Las Vegas, Kuwait & Bahrain.
  • B777-200ER 3-Class Low F - Configured with 8 GlobalFirst, 40 GlobalClub & 207 GlobalTraveller seats this will deployed on long haul routes without the large premium demand in our other 3-Class B777s. We currently have no aircraft configured in this configuration but that may change as long haul routes are assessed.
  • B777-200ER 2-Class - COnfigured with 48 GlobalClub & 225 GlobalTraveller seats this is used for routes with little or no F-Cass demand. We currently have 2 planes in this configuration operating routes to Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo, Cairo and Barbados.

We do not have any B787s or A380s currently but their configurations and routes will be assessed in due course. The A380s will most likely be deployed on Slot restrcited routes like Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Washington.

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More B747s & B777s received

This week, London/Heathrow's leading airline Aero Britain has continued with it's Long haul fleet changes with the addition of more B747-400s and B777-200 aircraft. These have begun to replace DC8s on our current routes meaning an increases in comfort, quality and capacity on more and more routes. We now have a fleet of 7 B747s and 7 B777 (Mix of ER and normal) operating services all over the globe.

Recent operational changes are as follows:

London/Heathrow - Bridgetown DC8 replaced by 2-Class B777, Service increased to 4xWeekly 

London/Heathrow - Bangkok Low-F B747 replaces DC8 on 4xWeekly flights (Overall 4xWeekly B744, 9xWeekly DC8)

London/Heathrow - Cairo Service increased to 6xWeekly (3 on DC8, 3 on 2-Class B777)

London/Heathrow - Kuwait Service increased from 2 to 6xweekly High-F B747 service

London/Heathrow - Los/Angeles High-F B747 replaces DC8 on 3 weekly services (Overall service 4xWeekly DC8 & 9xWeekly B744)

London/Heathrow - Sao Paulo Garulhos Service now 8xWeekly EQV (1xWeekly DC8, 3xWeekly 2-Class B777 & 4xWeekly Low-F B747)

We will continue to acquire more widebodies to upgrade and replace DC8s on our flights.

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