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Livingston continues to fly from Rimini to East Europe

The temporary operational plan set up after Windjet grounding is confirmed after Sept 3rd2012 from Livingston from Rimini to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Rostov, St.Petersburg, Bucharest and on Catania-St. Petersburg. Flights are available from 190€ one way and taxes enclosed. Sales channels are RiminiGo.com and www.trawelfly.it

Ethiopian introduce the B787s on one way Addis Ababa to Washington via Rome

One way only and the stop is in the night for this fligth from Addis Ababa to Washington IAD operated daily. Stop at Rome FCO is from Sept 20 2012 and it is in the middle of the night. Landing time is at 03:25am and time of departure at 4:25am only for fuel stop needs due to no traffic rights are in the hands of Ethiopian on Rome-Washington leg.

No presentation flights are planned to Rome on next Aug 27 2012

easyJet.om give up Milan to Thessaoniki and Porto

Thesalloniki is reported ceased by the end of October and last flight on Milan Mxp-Oporto si planned on Nov 24 2012.

Thomson Airways drops Pisa-Manchester

This indeed old flight operated seasonal from decades as from 2013 will disappear from network of Thomsn Airways. This route was opn with Britannia Airways a long time ago.

Jet2.com will not fly Bergamo in 2013

No flights are planned in 2013 in the network of Jet2.com to Bergamo. Jet2.come left Begramo after 9 years of operations.

UK budget carrier stops the route Pisa-East Midland in 2013 and double the weekly frequencies on Pisa-Leeds.

Alitalia opens Abu Dhabi non stop

Four times a week as from Dec 1 2012 is the new flight from Rome to Abu Dhabi in cooperation and code share with Etihad. Alitalia will fly these route with triple class brand new A330/200s. Alitalia has applied code share on Etihad flights from Milan to Abu Dhabi.

Ryanair end services to Rimini

Talks are in progress between the airport managing company Aeradria and Ryanair in order to expedite the new contract but the disputes concerning payments, comarketing and delays of payments due to the financial problems at Rimini airport forced temporary to stop any booking after Sept 22 2012 on Rimini-Hahn and Rimini-London STN.

Alitalia lifts more than 11000 passengers stranded by Windjet in 10 days

The grounding occurred to Windjet by Aug 12 2012 has left thousand and thousand travellers hiolding regular ticket and no planes to fly back home or in holidays. Alitalia has lifted 11940 passenger until now with dedicated extra flights operated mostlky in the night.

Tonight they carried 958 passengers with 14 additional flights.

Alitalia to Windjet stranded passengers has dedicated exclusive ad hoc fares on domestic flights at 75€ one way. Further dedicated fares are available to Spain, France, East Europe destinations served by Windjet until the collapse.

Air Italy will take over Meridiana fly on Bologna-Catania

Route Bologna-Catabnia is expected to go with Air Italy flight numbers as from Sept 3 2012:

Bologna-Catania

09:40-11:20 I9910 11/9-27/10

13:05-14:45 I9 910 3/9-10/9

20:20-22:00 I9 916 11/9-27/10

22:35-00:10 I9 916 3/9-10/9

Catania-Bologna

07:20-09:00 I9 911 11/9-27/10

10:40-12:20 I9 911 3/9-10/9

18:00-19:40 I9 915 11/9-27/10

20:10-21:50 I9 915 3/9-10/9

Rates from 56,88€ on Bologna-Catania and 53,15€ on Catania-Bologna. One way and taxs enclosed only.

BMI returns A330s to Meridiana fly

EI-EZL the A330s leased in May to BMI for operating flights to three Saudi Arabia destinations (Damman, Riyadh and Jeddah) is now back to Italy. Rumors report that an A330s is on the way to go to Turkish Airlines for one year lease.

Meridiana fly continues on operations to Catania

Triple day to Turin and the new twice daily from Bologna and Rome with final destination all to Catania are planned to go ahead.

Vueling modify winter timetable 2012/13 to Florence

The route to Madrid is downgrade to seasonl and Paris ORY services upgrade from 4xweek to daily. No changes affect Barcelona, both routes operated with 144 seater A319s.

Ryanair drops several routes from Valencia to Italy

These services from Valencia are discontinued with effect winter timetable 2012/13:

Bari, Genoa, Cagliari, Trapani, Trieste.

Darwin ends Genoa

Last flight planned to Genoa from Zurich and Geneva are planned on Aug 24th 2012. Code share recently established with Swiss have not modified the low perforjmances matured on the routes.

Livingston replace Windjet from Rimini

Livingston as from Aug 14 2012 has srtarted to fly from Rimini replacing partially Windjet network.

Services are available firstly for supporting the backlog of tickets sold by Windjet and RiminiGo.com on the several destinaztions available.

The network is less than the past and approximately 30% of last Windjet operations.

Passengers holding Windjet tickets must buy a new one at fares contracted. 80€ one way taxes enclosed on domestic flights to Catania. 150€ to European destinations except Russia where 190€ is the pricing applied.

Catania is served three times a week, Paris with two flights, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Prague are once a week. Three times a weerk to Moscow, twice to Kiev, once a week to St.Petersburg. Buharest is twice a week.

Tickets can be sold only on www.riminigo.com

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