News from Alternative Airlines

Daallo Airlines has launched a new luxury, daily nonstop services connecting Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa to number of cities in Africa, Middle East and Europe using it’s new fleet - the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, a twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner. The DC-9 passenger Jet can carry 91 passengers; 75 people in economy class and 16 business class passengers and its flight crew.

Transaero Airlines has launched a new domestic route from Moscow to Irkutsk. The flight, UN115/116, will operate twice weekly, departing from Moscow on Friday and Sunday and departing from Irkutsk on Saturday and Monday. Departure from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow will be at 23:40 pm local time (GMT+3) and arrival in Irkutsk will be at 10:20 pm local time (GMT+8).

The Latvian airline airBaltic is launching nonstop flights to the Polish capital city of Warsaw and the Russian city of Pskov from September 2009. The first flight from Riga to Warsaw will operate on September 17 and will be flown daily on Fokker F50 aircraft.

Mahan Air has announced that it will launch non-stop scheduled passenger services between Birmingham, UK and Amritsar, India via Tehran’s IKA Airport . From 02 July 2009, Mahan Air will be operating 3 weekly morning departures from Birmingham non-stop to Tehran and onto Amritsar.

From mid June 2009, Montenegro Airlines from Podgorica and BH Airlines from Sarajevo will add connections between Montenegro and FYRMacedonia.

Australian carrier Oz Jet has gone into administration and is endeavouring to continue operating by using aircraft of other aiirlines. following the grounding of it Perth based fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft.

A New Russian airline to be branded as Avianova, owned by the Alfa Group and Indigo Partners, is planning to start domestic scheduled srvices in July 2009 from Moscow’s third airport, Vnukono with a fleet of Airbus A320’s.

Chilean airline, Principal Airlines’ (PAL) has received the go ahead to launch new domestic schedules between Santiago, Antofagasta, and Iquique from June 18th 2008.. Previuosly the airline - known as PAL - has only operated domestic and international charter flights.

Transaero Airlines, Russia’s largest independent carrier, has launched a new domestic route from Moscow to Irkutsk. The flight,operates twice each week, departing from Moscow on Friday and Sunday with return flights from Irkutsk departing on Saturday and Monday.

The Transportation and Communications Department of Mexico has temporarily grounded the fleet of 23 aircraft operated by the low cost airline, Aviacsa. The airline currently serves 17 Mexican cities and the US city of Las Vegas.