Passengers wouldn't normally be given these on a short-haul flight, but we were essentially being given the long-haul experience in a short-haul taster.
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"Their major advantages on short-haul do not exist on long-haul flights," he said, pointing to short haul flights' lower share of fuel costs, shorter turnaround times and lower crew costs.
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United Mileage Plus points are great for short-haul tripsFly: Short-haul Star Alliance one-way economy class flights under 800 miles for 8,000 United Mileage Plus pointsIt may not feel all that exciting to be able to redeem 8,000 Mileage Plus points for short-haul flights on United within the US, and it usually isn't.
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While walkouts on Wednesday and Thursday affect both long and short-haul flights, Friday's strike will only ground planes destined for short-haul routes out of Germany, the union said in a statement.
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The new carrier appears to be avoiding short-haul domestic routes.
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But realistically its short-haul flights won't be happening anytime soon.
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Is flying business class on a short-haul flight worth it?
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"When we talk about consolidation it (Norwegian) is an opportunity, particularly if you look at the short-haul network and further consolidation in that short-haul network, it's probably the best opportunity for us," Walsh said.
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It's plenty enough for short haul trips across a busy urban landscape.
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That's why Cummins, Daimler, and others are pursuing short-haul electric vehicles.
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Other European carriers operate a similar business class on short-haul flights.
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The company could not find a buyer for its short-haul operation.
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First came low-cost carriers, chipping away at their short-haul routes.
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The company offers long- and short-haul chartered flights to subscription members.
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Porter Airlines specializes in short-haul flights within, to, and from Canada.
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The airline promised meals even on short-haul flights, and curbside valets.
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A "high proportion" of its short-haul flights will operate, it said.
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Short-haul British Airways partner bookingsMy single favorite use of Amex Membership Rewards is transferring points to British Airways Avios that I can use to book low-cost, short-haul bookings for domestic flights within the United States.
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On short-haul or budget flights, you won't even be provided a blanket.
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Even then, human drivers may still be in demand for short-haul trips.
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Their model was designed for short-haul routes, where expectations are more modest.
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This is one reason why short-haul airlines in India are losing money.
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The A320s, like Boeing Co's 737s, are mostly used for short-haul flights.
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Most of the ATR planes used by PIA were for short-haul flights.
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Booked in first class on a domestic ticket or short-haul business class?
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Even then, human drivers may still be in demand for short-haul trips.
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Ryanair was voted the "world's worst short-haul airline" in a survey by Which?
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Like Delta, United is also limiting emotional support animals to short-haul flights only.
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But short-haul flights like these won't be my best option in the future.
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For one thing, cargo transported over the long haul also creates short-haul traffic.
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Short-haul aircraft such as the Airbus A320 family went from looking like this,...
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The airline's short-haul fleet later included a European favorite, the Airbus A320 family.
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"I started telling them, 'I want some money,'" said Cardy, a short-haul trucker.
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Singapore Airlines and its short-haul arm SilkAir said customers travelling to Bali until Oct.
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Singapore Airlines and its short-haul arm SilkAir said customers traveling to Bali until Oct.
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Even if quality declines, on short-haul routes BA's monied clientele have few swankier alternatives.
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She was not close with her father, a short-haul truck driver, during her childhood.
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As profits declined, Monarch got out of charters and concentrated on short-haul, budget flights.
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This concept is the thing Volvo wants us to believe can replace short-haul flights.
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With the current status quo in place, short-haul flights edge driving by a click.
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Which invited the question of what utility business-class travel brings to short-haul flights.
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BA said short-haul passengers due to travel Wednesday could re-book for another day.
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The Lufthansa planes are both long- and short-haul — this closeup shows longer-range jets.
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EasyJet said in September it had bid for parts of Air Berlin's short haul business.
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It's home to pitch panelist Wright Electric, which wants to commercialize a short-haul electric airplane.
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El Al in recent years has renewed its short-haul fleet with 23 Boeing 737 aircraft.
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These include starting to charge for food on short haul flights last year to cut costs.
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And the California Highway Patrol assisted with helicopter support for a short-haul operation, officials said.
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With its high costs, it has struggled to compete with budget carriers on short-haul routes.
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In fact, Ryanair was voted the "world's worst short-haul airline" in a survey by Which?
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The tactics are justified by an alleged need to compete with short-haul low-cost carriers.
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The truck is designed for short-haul truckers, which is different than long-haul truckers, right?
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HI's fund includes shares in short-haul flight operators, likely to boom in a unified peninsula.
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Little surprise, then, that many organisations refuse to sanction business-class travel on short-haul flights.
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Norwegian is pressing on anyway, shifting away from short-haul routes to focus on long-haul.
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But also unlike British Airways for short-haul flights, Delta booking costs are not as predictable.
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L) said it was interested in buying low-cost, long- and short-haul carrier Norwegian (NWC.OL).
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The first place I often look for short-haul awards in the US is American Airlines.
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The Fokker 100 is a medium sized twin-turbofan jet often used for short haul flights.
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Jet2, another low-cost carrier, was one of the best performers in the short-haul category.
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Even on a short-haul flight, you would be served steak and champagne in coach class.
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Then in 2002 it went into short-haul flights in Europe, becoming the continent's third-largest LCC.
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IAG has said that it will feed Level flights through Vueling, the group's short-haul budget airline.
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It was so comfortable and stress-free I'd recommend it to anyone flying short-haul in Europe.
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But does this mean that autonomous vehicles could soon muscle in on the short-haul flight industry?
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BAH manages Scoot and sister airline Tigerair, the short-haul budget carrier of the Singapore Airlines group.
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United has long outsourced short-haul flights to regional contractors that operate planes from Embraer and Bombardier.
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But low-cost carriers like it have generally stuck to short-haul flights in their local region.
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Carbon emissions from one long-haul flight could be higher than those from several short-haul flights.
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It's safe to say the experience differs wildly depending on whether you're flying long or short-haul.
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These rewards are very useful for short-haul flights, which start at just 4,500 Avios each way.
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Austrian Airlines has already rejected proposals to re-brand its short-haul network into a Eurowings franchise.
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Monarch's demise was driven by high competition and sustained low fares in the short-haul European market.
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These short-haul trips make up 30 percent of all flights and is a $26 billion market.
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The most popular short-haul destinations were Miami, New York City, Orlando, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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The group offers Vueling for low-cost short haul and Level for the equivalent in long haul.
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About 67 percent of its medium-haul flights would operate and 85 percent of short-haul ones.
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Although its long-distance trains are pretty punctual by European standards, its short-haul ones run late.
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Can we put enough seats in to get some of the advantages of short-haul low cost?
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"Premium economy on American will resemble their domestic short-haul business class," said Mr. Hobica of Airfarewatchdog.
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It is apparently BA's good fortune that Qatar suddenly had a spare few short-haul jets sitting about.
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Jaeger expects more expansion from budget carriers on short-haul routes but sees limited potential on long-haul.
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Belgium's regional airports in Antwerp and Liege offer only limited short-haul capacity as an alternative, he said.
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On short-haul flights with shared screens, the goal is to find something that might appeal to everybody.
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As any frequent flyer knows, it's important to be comfortable at all times, even on short-haul flights.
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BRITISH AIRWAYS SAYS A SYSTEMS ISSUE HAS RESULTED IN SOME SHORT-HAUL CANCELLATIONS AND DELAYS FROM LONDON AIRPORTS
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I continue to believe that self-driving technology will disrupt short-haul air travel in a massive way.
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EasyJet had said several times it was interested in Alitalia's short-haul operations and positions at primary airports.
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It will operate 10 long-haul and 18 short-haul aircraft at lower costs than its main brand.
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If you live close enough, you could book a short-haul award for just 12,000 Avios round-trip.
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With British Airways, you can book many short-haul flights on partner American Airlines for even fewer points.
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Siti Nurazlin, from Singapore, worked her way up from short-haul flights in economy to working first class.
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The British budget airline said in September it had bid for parts of Air Berlin's short haul business.
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If you're planning a trip to any of these regions, the short-haul sweet spot offers incredible value.
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If Volvo's 23c is designed to replace short-haul flights, why are there literal bedrooms in these cars?
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The crisis has led to a quarter of the short-haul fleet of airlines like Lufthansa being grounded.
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The planes — both long-haul wide-bodies, and short-haul narrow-bodies, belong to SAS, or Scandinavian Airlines.
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Those kinds of short-haul trips generate a great deal of air pollution when diesel trucks are used.
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It's moving away from testing and short-haul trips to implementing its logistics platform on real, full delivery routes.
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Most of the cancellations are short-haul services, but 58 long-haul flights have also been scrapped, Lufthansa said.
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With the 360c, Volvo wants compete with the air travel industry, especially when it comes to short-haul flights.
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Even so, Boeing has sniffed a threat to the short-haul family of planes it makes called the 737.
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On Wednesday evening, the union said the walkouts would continue on Friday too, but only on short-haul flights.
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Its chief financial officer, Neil Sorahan, points out that seats on short-haul flights are a low-margin commodity.
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Then in 0.43 it expanded into short-haul flights in Europe, becoming the continent's third-largest low-cost carrier.
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It introduced "hand-baggage only" fares on some short-haul routes in 2013, imposing a surcharge for checked bags.
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Even so, the company warned of headwinds in several markets, citing declining auto production and short-haul domestic coal.
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I hadn't realized that flying business class on a short-haul flight actually doesn't mean different seats from economy ...
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Based in Norway, it flies short haul throughout Europe, and long haul between Europe and cities in the Americas.
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President Jair Bolsonaro uses an Airbus A319 for international trips and an Embraer VIP transport for short-haul flights.
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IAG bought short-haul carrier Vueling in 2015 and set up long-haul low-cost carrier Level in 2017.
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IAG bought short-haul carrier Vueling in 2015 and set up long-haul low-cost carrier Level in 2017.
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IAG bought short-haul carrier Vueling in 13 and set up long-haul low-cost carrier Level in 2017.
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Air passenger duty for short-haul flights is also frozen but long-haul flights will rise in line with inflation.
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Hogg, 55, who was appointed COO in 2014, will also become chairman of the airline's short-haul arm, Cathay Dragon.
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In Tallinn free public transit didn't reduce car usage; instead it replaced walking as a form of short-haul transportation.
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Flag-carriers were left behind in the 1990s by the rise of no-frills airlines in the short-haul market.
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For London-based travellers who only fly short-haul, there is meaningful competition in the skies from low-cost carriers.
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Reports last week said easyJet and Wizz Air were in talks to take over some of Monarch's short-haul network.
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Within 15 years, Lyft wants to deploy autonomous vehicles specifically designed for different sorts of long- and short-haul travel.
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Air France's short-haul business got a similar competitive boost from strikes afflicting the country's national railway operator, Gagey said.
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Short-haul travellers should expect fares to become even cheaper, but be prepared to pay more, for more extras, too.
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But by then it was too late and the company could not find a buyer for its short-haul operation.
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Otherwise the planned strike will run from midnight and affect short-haul and long-haul flights departing from German airports.
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Ryanair, which only currently operates short-haul routes, would also take on long-haul routes under the deal, O'Leary said.
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The C919 is designed to compete with the workhorses of modern short-haul aviation, the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
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Next month, the airline will reportedly stop providing free newspapers at the gate for inbound short-haul flights to London.
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" The concept is also supposed to represent what Volvo describes as a "potentially lucrative competitor to short-haul air travel.
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Similar strikes four years ago led to hundreds of flight cancellations at Germany's largest airport, particularly on short haul flights.
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As technology improves, it believes its planes will be able to go after the $2219 billion short-haul flight market.
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As a short-haul pilot, Fagerström only has short breaks, so she doesn't see many new places on her routes.
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British Airways was another highly-recognized airline, winning Best Short-Haul Carrier, Best Frequent Flyer Program, and Best Airport Lounge.
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So, if you're going 60 miles, that's kind of close to what you'd pay for a short-haul flight, right?
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But it might still make sense to ramp up the UK's short-haul 26 pounds per seat air passenger duty.
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The planned Wednesday strike will run from midnight and affect short-haul and long-haul flights departing from German airports.
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More than 2,500 Unite members who crew long- and short-haul routes to dozens of destinations could walk out after Dec.
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Brexit could therefore be good news for the U.K. tourism industry but less good for short-haul airlines and tour operators.
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But considering the price I paid and that Ryanair operates mostly short-haul routes, I was not expecting in-flight entertainment.
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As profits declined, so Monarch took the decision to get out of the charter market and concentrate on short-haul flights.
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The strategy has served it well, appealing to a majority of short-haul flyers who prize cheap fares over other frills.
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In a video on Air Transport World, Engler talked about scaling up to eventually fly 150 people on short-haul flights.
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Its fate rests on the still unproven strategy of adapting the model of low-cost short-haul travel to longer routes.
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It could be that transatlantic routes are undergoing the same transition that revolutionised short-haul travel in Europe two decades ago.
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The ATR 72 involved in the crash on Sunday, a French-Italian short-haul aircraft, was introduced in the late 1980s.
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The company has moved to a buy-on-board model for short-haul flights from London to the rest of Europe.
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We will not see electric planes move beyond conceptual, experimental, and possibly ultra-short-haul phases in the next 10 years.
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The profit outlook for short-haul airlines like easyJet and Ryanair has been helped by subdued capacity growth in the market.
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Altogether Eurowings has canceled almost 400 flights, primarily short-haul flights in Germany and Europe, out of around 550 planned for Thursday.
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This is quite significant for an electric aircraft, and could be used within the commercial aviation area for very short-haul flights.
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Until now, senior members of government have used the Royal Squadron for short-haul flights and chartered commercial flights for longer distances.
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Low-cost carriers in India such as SpiceJet and InterGlobe Aviation Ltd's IndiGo also fly overseas but mainly on short-haul routes.
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The four refineries have crude on-site in storage tanks and also have access to long-distance and short-haul pipeline systems.
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And because of this, I'm well practiced in short-haul flights; it's long-haul flights that scare the bejesus out of me.
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Kelly said prices were not falling for popular planes such as the A320 and the 737, the workhorses of short-haul routes.
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A second driver in a conventional truck picks up the trailer and provides the short haul for delivery to the final destination.
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It's just that high-speed trains can replace many short-haul flights, giving travelers more options if they don't want to fly.
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Some short-haul flights at Lufthansa's budget airline Eurowings are also affected because it leases 33 planes with crews from Air Berlin.
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The company had floated a partnership then with EasyJet, which is known for its short-haul flights in the UK and Europe.
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The airline will have just 10 long-haul planes and 18 short-haul planes by 2020, making it smaller than its rivals.
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Its fate rests on the still unproven strategy of adapting the success of low-cost short-haul travel to long-haul routes.
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The airline said a "systems issue" was causing delays and cancellations for short-haul flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports.
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She worked her way up from short-haul flights in economy to manning first class — a coveted gig on the luxurious carrier.
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The short-haul "less-than-truckload" business has revenue of about $77 billion a year, on journeys of 200 miles or less.
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However, it is only interested in short-haul operations, so a separate buyer would have to be found for long-haul routes.
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The all-electric truck by Chanje (as in "change") is out to shake up the medium duty, short-haul commercial truck market.
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To minimise disruption BA has "wet leased" nine planes from Qatar Airways (which owns 20% of IAG, BA's parent) for short-haul services.
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WILLIE WALSH has spent much of the past few years stripping the frills from British Airways planes, at least on short-haul routes.
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The A320s are mainly used on short-haul regional flights but also to cities within five hours' flying of Abu Dhabi, Etihad said.
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Plane enthusiasts will have to wait a similar amount of time before experiencing the other mid-sized, short-haul aircraft currently under development.
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PRIMERA AIR changed its low-cost business model this year by adding scheduled long-haul flights to its predominantly short-haul charter network.
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For short-haul flights — Blackbird currently operates Hitch in California, but is soon expanding to Florida and eventually New York — this seems doable.
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The short haul truck then loads its cargo onto a long-haul freight transport, which is autonomous for the purposes of these trips.
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A half-filled private jet is roughly five times dirtier than business class and 12 times dirtier than economy on short-haul routes.
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But aviation analysts fear that its cost base—currently the lowest of any short-haul airline in Europe—may bloat as a result.
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As an airline mainly flying domestic and short-haul routes in Scandinavia, in 2013 it made an annual operating profit of NKr970m ($166m).
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The Tesloop Model S The Tesloop Model S In general, terrestrial short-haul may be as fast or slightly slower than airlines, today.
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"Forward bookings suggest the long-haul outlook remains encouraging, although we would expect further short-haul challenges," Liberum analysts said in a note.
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Among those predictions was the impact hyperloop and autonomous vehicle technology would have on commuting, short-haul air travel and the retail industry.
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The stoppage hit short-haul flights departing from German cities, forcing Lufthansa to cancel 816 out of around 3,000 planned flights on Tuesday.
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And for their efforts, brokers charge hefty commissions—of as much as 203% of the delivery cost per load for short-haul trips.
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Still, Norwegian is pondering cooperation with European short-haul budget airlines, in which they would fly passengers to feed Norwegian's long-haul routes.
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The airline said the switch to selling M&S food was driven by customer dissatisfaction with the its current short-haul economy catering.
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For now, they envision the plane being used for short-haul flights as an air taxi, with flight tests to start next year.
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Mikosz said the airline remained interested in potential orders of Bombardier's CSeries short-haul jets ($1 = 100.7000 Kenyan shillings) (Editing by Jon Boyle)
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The airline, which operates short-haul flights out of Toronto's city airport using a fleet of turboprop jets, did not provide further details.
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That makes the low-cost business model — which can work well on short-haul flights — difficult to apply to the long-haul market.
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Lufthansa's business model hinges on feeding short-haul passengers into its Frankfurt and Munich hubs, whence they can be redistributed around the globe.
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Monarch said on Thursday it was talking to potential partners after a report that parts of its short-haul network would be sold.
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Bidders had been especially interested in Air Berlin subsidiary Niki, which operates short-haul flights from Germany and Austria to tourist hot spots.
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Hammond said short-haul APD rates for 2020-21 would not rise, remaining at the same level as they have been since 2012.
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As recently as 2010, Delta sold just 14 percent of its short-haul first-class seats, according to Mr. Leff, the industry blogger.
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Additionally in 2017, BA, which is owned by IAG, stopped offering customers free food and drink in economy class on short-haul flights.
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The pilots announced on Sunday plans to strike on short-haul routes on Tuesday and both short- and long-haul flights on Wednesday.
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Demand for short-haul grades has increased after the Brent oil market structure flipped into backwardation, when prompt prices are more than later prices.
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Wealthy countries no longer sell new combustion engine cars by 2030, and transportation gets widely electrified, with many short-haul flights replaced by rail.
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The journey was so comfortable, and check-in and boarding so stress-free, I would recommend it to anyone flying short-haul in Europe.
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It is also scrapping free drinks and snacks for economy customers on short-haul flights, and will now offer a buy-on-board menu.
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The big untapped market, easyJet and Ryanair's bosses twigged, was the short-haul business market, which was still dominated by pricey full-service airlines.
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Last month, American Airlines was forced to cancel or delay dozens of short-haul flights in the U.S. southwest, due to triple-digit temperatures.
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"Remember your mission, march forward and win the 'three battles'," says one, referring to the markets for regional, short-haul and long-haul jets.
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The strike by BA's mixed fleet cabin crew - those who work on both long and short-haul flights - is due to begin on Saturday.
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"The ideal outcome here is that Willie buys it and carves it up and O'Leary buys the short-haul business off them," he said.
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Moving points to the British Airways Executive Club program and booking for short-haul flights on partner American Airlines is usually a great value.
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Eight-five percent of short-haul flights will be guaranteed from the Parisian airport of Orly and other regional airports in France, it added.
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To make a complex story short, Qatar Airways pumped a lot of cash into a short-haul Italian airline, now known as Air Italy.
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The carrier is also cutting some of its short-haul trips between London and cities in Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany and other countries.
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Thor is aiming for customers seeking short-haul heavy vehicles, such as trucks that might need to drive from a port to a warehouse.
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London City is the capital's fifth-biggest - and most central - airport, popular with business travelers, bankers and politicians for short-haul and regional routes.
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London City is the capital's fifth-biggest - and most central - airport, popular with business travellers, bankers and politicians for short-haul and regional routes.
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Those fares were set to fall by 7 percent, rather than the 2 percent previously flagged, due to short-haul overcapacity in Europe, it said.
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But IAG said on Thursday that Level would expand into the short-haul market where it will compete with Europe's biggest low-cost carrier Ryanair.
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Lufthansa's Eurowings started offering internet on short-haul routes this month, using an Inmarsat satellite-based system, while Norwegian Air Shuttle also offers Wi-Fi.
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Meanwhile, his short-haul bus trips (or even longer haul bus trips) are akin to a truck route — primarily a single lane on a highway.
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Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair said earlier that it expects higher oil prices to push up short-haul airfares in Europe, but not until 2019.
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Airbus's A320neo short-haul aircraft are flying off the shelves and have a market share of 59% in the fight against Boeing's rival 737 MAX.
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Short-haul flights in airborne taxis: It's next-level alright, but is it next-level hype, or something city-dwellers can actually look forward to?
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Monarch made a desperate bid to move from short-haul into long-haul, ordering 15 new planes (on top of a previous 30) in June.
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"Better cost structures, especially on short-haul routes, will improve the market position of Lufthansa," Vereiniung Cockpit board member Joerg Handwerg said in a statement.
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The country is in talks with Uber and other aviation companies to bring short-haul, commuter flights to the country within the next 10 years.
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EasyJet has said several times it is interested in Alitalia's short-haul operations and positions at primary airports, adding the alliance should be commercially viable.
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The royal said he will only fly short haul as he needs to be able to return to the Netherlands "in case of an emergency ".
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Lufthansa has announced plans to temporarily use wide-body planes on some short-haul routes to meet the additional demand created by Air Berlin's collapse.
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EasyJet, whose shares were unaffected by its announcement, had said several times it was interested in Alitalia's short-haul operations and positions at primary airports.
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Days after rival Lufthansa cited intense short-haul competition in Europe for pushing profits down 25%, Walsh said he was not too concerned about oversupply.
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The airline's business class or "Club" offering varies wildly depending on whether you're traveling short-haul within Europe (Club Europe) or long-haul (Club World).
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As a short haul pilot, Fagerström usually gets back to Spain to sleep in her own bed, but during her time off, she travels frequently.
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They will be "short-haul" cars available for tourists and will drive on about 7 km (4 miles) of specially assigned lanes, he told Reuters.
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And they said they see a need for more comprehensive research into the health compromises made by business travelers, both short haul and long haul.
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But short-haul flights are increasing as countries like China, India, and Brazil open new routes to accommodate a voracious demand for domestic air travel.
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London City is located a few miles east of the Canary Wharf financial district and mostly handles short-haul flights to business destinations within Europe.
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COMAC's C919, a supposed short-haul rival to Airbus's narrow-body A320 and Boeing's 737, is not taken seriously as a threat by the pair.
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Low-cost carriers like Ryanair and easyJet hurt its business on short-haul routes in Europe, which feed its lucrative long-haul flights from London.
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The carrier will run just 15 short-haul aircraft and two long-haul planes on Thursday, out of its fleet of 50, a spokeswoman said.
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The Fokker 2000 aircraft, a medium sized twin-turbofan jet often used for short haul flights, was operated by the Kazakhstan-based carrier Bek Air.
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Ryanair was the worst short-haul airline the consumers found, a repeat of its 2018 performance, while Ryanair's rival budget carrier easyJet came mid-table.
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It was formed because France, Germany, and initially, Britain wanted to beat those damn Yankees by developing their own "air bus" — a small, short-haul plane.
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Furthermore, all of our flights are short–haul, so very little alcohol is actually sold on board, which is why the issue lies with the airports.
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Iran's Fars news agency reported Saturday that another Western airplane manufacturer, French-Italian aircraft company ATR, was preparing to sell turboprop short-haul airplanes to Iran.
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Skedaddle began its business with the short-haul trips from cities to the far flung venues where summer concerts, festivals and sporting events tend to live.
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Eurowings management is due to implement turnaround measures to be presented shortly, Lufthansa said, adding that it will defend its market position on short-haul routes.
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Despite the relatively low numbers, India is a short-haul destination and Chinese carriers have 25 flights a week to Indian metros from different Chinese cities.
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What distinguishes it, though, is Volvo's vision of how it fits into the broader scheme of city infrastructure, short-haul flights, working commutes, and environmental concerns.
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S. market - among the most profitable - while the Franco-Dutch group's short-haul European flights could bring more customers to Virgin's U.S.-bound flights from London.
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The airline in January said it would cut jobs and consider shifting some flights to its short-haul arm, Cathay Dragon, after completing a strategic review.
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King Willem-Alexander said in an interview with De Telegraaf newspaper Wednesday that he had taken to the skies twice a month on short haul services.
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The company first introduced a short-haul low-cost airline version of this known as the "Side-Slip" seat, which is thinner and does not recline.
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Whisper it, but companies may actually prefer their staff to fly coach on short-haul flights if they want to ensure sobriety at the other end.
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Short-haul drivers are much easier to find, since they requirements don't involve spending weeks on the road and prolonged hours spent in a truck cab.
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And the damage inflicted by the 787 will make Boeing think twice about designing a new plane to sit between its long- and short-haul models.
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Soon, he was hooking me to a harness for a short haul skyward; I would dangle from the helicopter for the hop to the nearby trailhead.
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There was no luxurious leather toiletry pouch, but to be fair, you can probably live without an eye mask or earplugs on a short-haul flight.
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Level, set up last year, has so far focused on long-haul flights, but on Tuesday starts its first short-haul flight from Vienna to London.
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Judging by the comparative speeds of short-haul air travel and Hyperloop, many of the passengers of these flights would be drawn to terrestrial travel alternatives.
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The limited range of most first-generation electric or hydrogen commercial trucks and a lack of charging infrastructure threaten to limit sales to short-haul operations.
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Most manufacturers see short-haul routes such as drayage services to or from ports or rail yards as likely first adopters of electric or hydrogen trucks.
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If you look at a map, the Middle East is much closer to India than to Japan or China and such shipments are effectively short-haul.
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There's a calculation for short haul, medium haul, and long haul flights, and it not only calculates the carbon but it puts a price on it.
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But it wants to go further; the carrier also has partnerships to research hybrid and electric aircraft that could be used for short-haul European flights.
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Short-haul LNG-fuelled shipping vessels have so far only been able to refuel with LNG in Rotterdam through truck-to-ship transfers while at dock.
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But Chief Executive Michael O'Leary warned analysts against assuming that recent strong performance by European short-haul carriers would continue into the key summer trading period.
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Other ground network changes include in-sourcing deliveries that were previously given to the U.S. Postal Service, implementing large package facilities and new short-haul services.
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You can use United MileagePlus miles to book flights to Europe starting at 30,0003 miles one-way, or book short-haul flights for just 10,000 miles.
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The contrast is starkest in the short-haul market, with KLM deploying the U.S. planemaker's 2747 narrow-body and its sister-unit loyal to the A320 series.
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Some saw British Airways' new move as a mere cost-cutting extension — the airline recently removed free food and drink from economy for short-haul trips too.
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Deutsche Telekom and Inmarsat also say the EAN equipment is small, lightweight and easy to install, making it suitable for short-haul planes and low-cost carriers.
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And the larger C216, designed to compete directly with the popular Boeing 7873 and Airbus A2787 family of short-haul models, is now three years behind schedule.
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British Airways said all items on the menu will cost less than £5 ($6.50) and business-class passengers on short haul flights will still receive complimentary food.
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BRITISH AIRWAYS SAYS IT IS OFFERING CUSTOMERS BOOKED ON SHORT-HAUL SERVICES DEPARTING FROM HEATHROW, GATWICK AND LONDON CITY TODAY, THE OPPORTUNITY TO REBOOK TO ANOTHER DAY
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The promise is that the hybrid powertrain will still reduce emissions by 80 percent and that airlines can save 40 to 80 percent per short-haul flight.
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Air France wants to bring down costs in order to compete better against Gulf carriers on long-haul routes, and against budget carriers on short-haul routes.
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Unite had earlier said that over 2,500 Unite members who crew long- and short-haul routes to dozens of destinations were to walk out after Dec. 21.
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The King will take a break from his pilot duties in order to learn to fly Boeing 737s, KLM's upgrade of choice for its short haul fleet.
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Christoph Mueller, a former pilot, restored the fortunes of Aer Lingus, Ireland's flag carrier, by cutting loss-making short-haul routes and focusing on cheap transatlantic flights.
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"We would be very happy to bid for the whole of Air Berlin, which is generally a short-haul, domestic, intra-EU carrier," O'Leary said by telephone.
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The carrier has faced increasingly stiff competition from low-cost carriers including easyJet, Wizz Air and Ryanair's Laudamotion on short-haul routes out of its base, Vienna.
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It is also in talks with Ryanair over the Irish carrier feeding its own short-haul customers to Norwegian's long-haul flights, which would help fill planes.
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Plans to develop that jet for commercial use have been shelved as the ambition for electric flight has now been upped to include short-haul passenger aircraft.
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I realized this when I experienced the new long-haul business class service followed by the short-haul the next day on a British Airways press trip.
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The system could theoretically carry passengers from one destination to another at over 1,000 kilometers per hour and could be a green alternative to short-haul flights.
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Budget airlines, already grappling with competition in the crowded market, have been hit hard by the virus due primarily to their heavy reliance on short-haul routes.
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In the fourth quarter, restructuring of the French domestic network delivered a 7.8% revenue gain for the short-haul business and a 1.5% group unit-cost reduction.
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Doubts are creeping in because Norwegian's fate rests on the still unproven strategy of adapting the success of low-cost short-haul travel to long-haul routes.
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But it warned of possible further disruption in the months ahead and said it was not optimistic about average fares in European short-haul in the summer.
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That is because it has "wet leased" nine Qatar Airways jets to fly some of its short-haul routes (the Gulf carrier has a 20% stake in IAG).
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Sky News reported that easyJet and Wizz Air had bid for parts of Monarch's short-haul network, but the airline said it had no news to announce yet.
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The airline was also slated last year for removing free food and drink from its short-haul flights and selling Marks and Spencer&aposs sandwiches and snacks instead.
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Creditors will hold exclusive negotiations with Lufthansa, whose CEO said it was interested in short-haul operations with up to 78 planes, until October 12, the sources said.
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British Airways has announced it will stop serving free snacks on short-haul flights, and will introduce a pay-on-board menu from premium U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer.
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But even the best lithium-ion cells are still far from being able to power the workhorses of civil aviation: short-haul airliners carrying 22022 or so passengers.
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Popular planes used for short-haul flights, such as the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737, can easily seat more than 100 passengers and cover over 1,000 miles.
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The airline, which is owned by International Airlines Group, said customers booked on short haul flights out of London were being asked to travel on a different day.
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Condor is "in the process of preparing a concrete offer", one source said, adding Condor was interested in mainly short-haul routes, and also some long-haul ones.
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Millennials are ceremoniously biased to value experiences over things and wanting more control of their surroundings; these trends will drive (pun intended) the future of short-haul transport.
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EasyJet had said in September that it was still talking to the Italian government over Alitalia's short-haul operations, adding that any deal needed to make commercial sense.
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"EasyJet has this afternoon submitted a proposal to the overseers of Air Berlin's insolvency to acquire parts of its short-haul business," the company said in a statement.
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Italy is one of Europe's largest travel markets and a big tourist destination, but short-haul routes are dominated by low-cost carriers such as Ryanair and easyJet.
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Ryanair, which says it offers some of the best conditions for low-cost short-haul Boeing pilots in Europe, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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El Al is banking on a more than $1 billon overhaul of its long-range fleet to win back customers while also revamping its short-haul fare structure.
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Dirks also said that Alitalia's short-haul business could be integrated at Eurowings, should Lufthansa succeed in striking a deal to buy a part of Italy's ailing carrier.
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But, just as with the low-cost revolution of short-haul flying in the 1990s, new startups are circling overhead, waiting to take Norwegian's place if it fails.
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Eurowings is Mr Spohr's answer to Ryanair, EasyJet, Norwegian Air Shuttle and the other low-cost carriers that have come to dominate the short-haul market in Europe.
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American Airlines will also continue short-haul international flying, which includes flights to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America and certain markets in the northern part of South America.
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However, Air France will still operate 75 percent of its medium-haul flights to and from Charles de Gaulle Airport and 85 percent of its short-haul flights.
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Until Monday, Norwegian and Ryanair had been in discussions to reach a flight connection agreement that would give Ryanair's short-haul customers access to long-haul Norwegian flights.
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Europe's short-haul carriers have struggled with plunging air fares in recent months with low-cost rivals Wizz and easyJet both trimming their annual profit forecasts in recent weeks.
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Rival carrier Lufthansa started providing satellite-based broadband onboard its short-haul flights starting from last month, while Norwegian has offered customers free Wi-Fi onboard for some time.
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Boeing faces several investigations by regulators, U.S. Congress, and the Department of Justice over its development of the 737 MAX, its previously best-selling workhorse for short-haul travel.
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Short-haul economy fares are expected to drop 3 percent, while long-haul business class fares may see a 1.5 percent decline in the United States, the report said.
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But while IAG plans to have 90 percent of its long-haul fleet be up and running by 2019, the question still remains for medium and short-haul flights.
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The Irish firm also increased its long-term growth forecast by 10 percent, as it projects to have more than a 20 percent share of Europe's short-haul market.
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Greyhound is a popular option to get around in Canada, particularly for low-income people, travellers making short-haul trips between cities, and those who live in rural areas.
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LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - British Airways said on Wednesday it had cancelled some short-haul flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports because of an IT systems failure.
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The Indianapolis-based short-haul carrier, which feeds flights to American Airlines, Delta and United brands, listed assets of $3.6 billion and $3.0 billion of liabilities, court documents showed.
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Companies are exploring VTOLs and battery-powered passenger drones that fly at an altitude of about 1,000 feet for short-haul flights that could speed up mega-commute times.
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Both Airbus and its U.S. rival Boeing triggered thousands of new orders and dampened sales of new entrants to the global jet market by refreshing their short-haul models.
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Joon will start with short-haul routes to Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon and Porto in December, before flying to Fortaleza in Brazil and Seychelles from the end of March 2018.
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Mohshin Aziz, an analyst at Maybank, said increased airport charges at the airline's Singapore hub from July 1 could further exacerbate pressure on yields, especially for short-haul flights.
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With Norwegian's large level of debt, Walsh may move to split up the airline in order to derisk it, such as seeking a buyer for the short-haul operations.
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During previous such strikes, the airline has said all its passengers would be flown to their destinations and only a small number of short-haul flights would be canceled.
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"Our strategy in Asia for crude has been to basically make long-haul barrels available on a short-haul basis to bring flexibility to customers in Asia," said Berg.
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That means, unlike the basic economy restrictions on American Airlines' short-haul domestic flights, fliers will be able to stash a bag in the overhead bin without a fee.
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The 73-year-old airline is a more traditional legacy carrier, operating full-service flights with a diverse fleet, and flying domestic, short-haul European, and longer intercontinental flights.
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While that's obviously more applicable to ultra-short-haul flying — think New York to Boston, or London to Paris — activists such as Thunberg criticize long-haul travel as well.
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The aviation industry is under pressure to decarbonise, but fully electric planes in the 150-200 passenger short-haul bracket are not expected to be flying before the 2030s.
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Eurowings, already the market leader at Duesseldorf with its short-haul routes, currently flies long-haul from Cologne and plans to start intercontinental tourist routes from Munich next year.
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"Freight rates peaked in October 21 and that prompted refiners to go for short-haul crude like from the Middle East," Ehsan Ul Haq, an analyst with Refinitiv, said.
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"Freight rates peaked in October 2019 and that prompted refiners to go for short-haul crude like from the Middle East," Ehsan Ul Haq, an analyst with Refinitiv, said.
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"Freight rates peaked in October 21 and that prompted refiners to go for short-haul crude like from the Middle East," Ehsan Ul Haq, an analyst with Refinitiv, said.
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The airline said it was also cancelling some short-haul flights to Italy, France, Germany and other European destinations that are served from London's Heathrow, Gatwick and City airports.
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Its focus, however, is on the Asian market and narrowbody planes like the 737, which are used on short-haul routes of up to five hours, will help with that.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa will roll out satellite-based broadband onboard short-haul flights starting from October, it said on Monday, as customers increasingly demand to stay connected in the air.
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DE) will continue to fight for market share in the hotly contested market for short-haul flights, where it is determined to compete with budget airlines such as Ryanair (RYA.
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Lufthansa in late July blamed price competition on short-haul routes and rising fuel and maintenance for a 25% drop in second-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT).
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China has tried to enter the market for airliners with the ARJ-21, a regional jet, and the C919, an aircraft that looks remarkably similar to Airbus's short-haul aircraft.
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German airline Lufthansa on Tuesday posted a decline in second-quarter earnings, hurt by price competition on short-haul routes in Germany and Austria as well as rising fuel costs.
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Signifying that the electric-power revolution is not confined to the car industry, easyJet said it hoped to fly short-haul planes powered by batteries within the next two decades.
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Fearon indicated Ryanair was still a favorite: it was a "category killer" in short-haul that stood to gain from Alitalia's troubles and as industry capacity growth slows, boosting fares.
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Over-capacity in European short-haul will push Ryanair fares down by 2 percent in the six months to March 31 compared to the same period last year, O'Leary forecast.
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Already Europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers, Ryanair said it hopes to lift its share of the European short-haul market from 15 percent to over 20 percent by 13.
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Airbus Industrie was formed in 22017 by the governments of France and Germany, who had begun discussions in 22017 to form a consortium to build a European short-haul jet.
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Historically focused on short-haul flights to European holiday destinations, Stansted is increasingly competing with Heathrow with services to the U.S. and Middle East due to start later this year.
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BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Lufthansa said on Thursday it is fully taking over Brussels Airlines, with plans to integrate the Belgian carrier's short-haul routes into the Eurowings budget unit.
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If you transfer points to British Airways Avios and book short-haul US flights with these points, each referral is easily enough for a one-way flight to many destinations.
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Lufthansa's CEO said earlier that the carrier wanted to secure the 38 crewed planes it leases from Air Berlin, and was interested in a further 20-40 short-haul planes.
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In January 2018, the country — a trailblazer in transportation, with one of the largest fleets of electric cars — said it planned to make all short-haul flights electric by 2040.
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"This virus will expedite the thesis of consolidation, possibly to extreme levels," Citi analyst Mark Manduca said, adding that 21% of Europe's short-haul market was loss-making in 20.8754.
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From jetting off on a long-distance holiday to catching a short-haul flight for a crucial business meeting, the aviation industry is a crucial cog in the global economy.
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Kelleher, a New Jersey-native and lawyer, founded Southwest in 1967 with pilot Rollin King, to provide short-haul flights in Texas, an idea they sketched out on a cocktail napkin.
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Boeing faces a slew of investigations by regulators, U.S. Congress, and the Department of Justice over its development of the 737 Max, its previously best-selling workhorse for short-haul travel.
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And the larger C919, designed to compete directly with the popular Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family of short-haul models, made its maiden flight three years behind schedule in 2017.
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Air Berlin is now trying to attract higher paying business travellers by increasing long-haul services, especially to the United States, as well as adding the short-haul business class service.
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This is the latest in a string of interesting developments around short-haul urban air transportation tech, which includes a number of startups with strong backing, like Sebastian Thrun's Kitty Hawk.
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It will also allow for better use of the airlines' London Heathrow slots, analysts said, allowing them to free up extra short-haul capacity and move it to long-haul routes.
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In most economy-class, short-haul flights (and some longer, international flights), there is not enough space for my legs even when the seat in front of me is fully upwards.
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BA has been cutting costs to respond to competition on short-haul routes from Ryanair and easyJet and recently faced criticism for starting to charge passengers for their in-flight snacks.
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As well as confronting trade unions, he removed free meals from short-haul flights; reduced free baggage allowances while simultaneously increasing excess weight charges; and imposed a fee for seat reservations.
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"In 9 years and 8 months, you'll have 50 people traveling short-haul on electric planes," Piccard, founder and chairman of Solar Impulse told an IATA airlines association briefing in Geneva.
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"This will enable easyJet to operate the leading short haul network at Tegel connecting passengers to and from destinations across Germany and the rest of Europe," easyJet said in a statement.
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"Our earnings are feeling the effects of tough competition in Europe and sizeable overcapacities, especially on our short-haul routes out of Germany and Austria," Chief Financial Officer Ulrik Svensson said.
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Norwegian is Europe's third-largest low-cost airline by passenger numbers after Ryanair and EasyJet, but unlike its larger competitors it competes both on the short-haul and long-haul markets.
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Budget carrier Wizz Air, which said in January it would only be interested in the short haul business, has made the third offer, a source close to the situation told Reuters.
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The long-range planes would have both an ejectable and fixed recorder, while short-haul aircraft from the A320 family will be fitted with two of the fixed recorders, Airbus said.
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The airline was returning to normal on Monday, planning to run more than 95 percent of flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick, with only a handful of short-haul flights canceled.
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It will operate 10 long-haul and 18 short-haul aircraft at lower costs than its main brand in a bid to restore some routes to profitability and gain new customers.
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Qantas Updates The low-cost carrier, already struggling financially, announced it would stop all trans-Atlantic flights effective March 25 and would only fly a limited short-haul schedule in Scandinavia.
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But recently, numerous airlines like Alaska and United have been gradually phasing out seat-back screens on short-haul flights and instructing passengers to watch the content on their smartphones. Why?
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"If you're going between DC and New York, and you have the option for how to travel, flying that short-haul flight is the worst of the three options," he said.
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Virgin spies an opportunity to become a second hub carrier at Heathrow, with enough short-haul routes to create a long-haul network that would not make sense without transfer passengers.
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The outlook for short-haul European airlines has brightened since earlier in January when easyJet's Irish rival Ryanair upgraded its profit forecast on strong demand for flying during the holiday season.
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Head of product strategy Marten Levenstam said 360c robo-taxis could be competitive with short-haul flights and be sold to airlines such as such as Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines.
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American aircraft largely comprised the airline's fleet once settled into the jet age with a short-haul fleet featuring the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and later the McDonnell Douglas MD-80...
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Critics say Berlin Brandenburg, even when complete, will be too small to meet passenger demand and want Tegel retained to serve around 10 million passengers per year, mainly on short-haul flights.
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Wow Air, which also competes with Norwegian Air on transatlantic routes, connects Europe and North America via its hub in Reykjavik, often with smaller A320 jets typically used for short-haul flights.
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INVESTIGATIONS Boeing faces a slew of investigations by regulators, U.S. Congress, and the Department of Justice over its development of the 737 MAX, its previously best-selling workhorse for short-haul travel.
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INVESTIGATIONS Boeing faces a slew of investigations by regulators, U.S. Congress, and the Department of Justice over its development of the 737 MAX, its previously best-selling workhorse for short-haul travel.
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"SAS pilots in the Swedish Airline Pilot's Association working on short-haul flights with their home base at Arlanda are now on strike," the Swedish pilots' union said in a press release.
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The Swedish automaker believes cars like the 2500c will change the infrastructure between and within cities, alter our ways of living and working, and even potentially upend the short-haul flight industry.
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Vahana aims to have a viable production urban aircraft for short-haul trips available by 2021, and so actual prototype tests by the end of this year make sense given those timelines.
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But while short-haul, ultra-low-cost carriers like Spirit and Europe's Ryanair and easyJet have been offering no-frills service for decades, airlines like Wow Air are a relatively new breed.
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Japan Airlines, which operates the short-haul low-cost Jetstar Japan joint venture with Australia's Qantas Airways , is setting up ZIPAIR to compete against domestic rival ANA Holdings Inc's budget arm Peach.
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In recent decades the Persian Gulf carriers have dethroned BA as the standard-bearers for long-haul service, while a new breed of low-cost carriers has attacked its short-haul dominance.
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That is important because service levels can vary wildly on a single carrier, depending on whether the journey is long- or short-haul, and the specific plane being used to fly it.
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Just like every other new hire, Siti started her Emirates career at the bottom, in economy on short-haul flights, and, through the years, she's worked her way up to first class.
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We're fighting for policy changes that will make it possible for us to have better choices: utilities that offer us renewable options, electric trains that make short-haul flights obsolete, public transit.
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British finance minister Philip Hammond said in his annual budget that Air Passenger Duty (APD) would be frozen for short-haul flights but would rise in line with inflation for long-haul.
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The crisis, which has led to a quarter of the short-haul fleet of airlines like Lufthansa being grounded, comes on top of a list of pressures on the European airline industry.
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As airlines continue to cut both long-haul and short-haul flying, in some cases reducing their capacity 70-80% for April, they're running out of places to store their grounded planes.
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"Mounting cost pressures and increasingly competitive market conditions in the European short-haul market have contributed to the Monarch Group experiencing a sustained period of trading losses," KPMG partner Blair Nimmo said.
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Most budget airlines are focused on short-haul routes, but Level was established last year to offer low-cost long-haul flights, joining a handful of other airlines in this market, including Norwegian.
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"In my mind, there's no doubt that by 2040 Norway will be operating totally electric" on short-haul flights, Dag Falk-Pedersen, head of Avinor, told reporters at an aviation conference in Oslo.
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Not so long ago, some questioned whether British Airways could survive the combination of low-cost carriers devouring its short-haul route and upscale Middle Eastern rivals dominating the long-haul connecting market.
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Other flag-carriers across Europe have also been squeezed, on short-haul routes by the rise of low-cost outfits and on long-haul routes by carriers from the Middle East and China.
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"They've told us we are experts in flying and service, but when it comes to catering on short-haul flights, they want to choose from a wider range of premium products," he said.
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Norwegian is trying to replicate on transatlantic flights the low-cost model that dominates the short-haul market via companies such as Ryanair and easyJet, but is struggling to make the business profitable.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways will offer wirelessly streamed movies and television shows to passengers on mainly short-haul flights as it removes entertainment screens from its Airbus A320 narrow-body fleet.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Pilots at Germany's Lufthansa said they would extend strikes by another 24 hours, with the walkout on the third day affecting short-haul flights out of country on Friday.
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Lufthansa was already the largest European airline in terms of distance, or revenue passenger kilometers (RPK), as it operates flights over both long and short distances, while Ryanair flies only short-haul routes.
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As Jared Blank writes in Online Travel Review: Singapore was a luxury provider because they didn't fly short-haul and they were competing solely for long-distance traffic (primarily with BA and Qantas).
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SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson said in May that SAS had seen some impact from the growing climate debate, with some Swedish companies encouraging employees to take the train instead of short-haul flights.
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The aim of the project — dubbed the E-Fan X — is to replace one of four gas turbine engines on a short-haul airliner with the motor for a test flight by 2020.
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"Short-haul crude oil supplies to Europe are increasing with the restart of Libya and that will provide a cap for European crude oil strength," Olivier Jakob, managing director of PetroMatrix consultancy, said.
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An Air France spokesman confirmed that a voluntary plan to cut short-haul ground staff would be presented on May 13 but declined to give details on the proposals ahead of the meeting.
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Five day voyages between the two countries would be replaced with voyages of 15 to 25 days to and from Europe and Asia as short haul supplies are replaced with more distant sources.
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Shares in Ryanair fell 0.6 percent after the budget airline said average fares fell more than expected in the last three months of 2016 amid a capacity glut in Europe's short-haul market.
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At Shenzhen North station, the terminus for some of the short-haul trains for Hong Kong, there was a similar scene as tourists lined up outside the boarding gates bound for the city.
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Since being named the best short-haul airline in 2015, BA has been on a downwards trajectory according to the survey by consumer group Which, and it dropped another two places this year.
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Most budget airlines offer short-haul routes, but Level was established last year to offer low-cost long-haul flights, joining a handful of other airlines in this relatively new market, including Norwegian (NWC.OL).
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Mixed fleet crew - who fly long and short-haul destinations and make up around 15 percent of the total BA cabin staff - have gone on strike several times in recent months over their pay.
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The Lufthansa group is growing strongly on European short-haul routes this year thanks to its takeover of Brussels Airlines and a deal to lease 38 planes and crew from Germany's Air Berlin AB1.
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The company's algorithms also attempt to dispatch work in a way that significantly cuts down on empty journeys, which is a particularly common problem for the regional and short-haul market OnTruck is targeting.
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BA needs to boost efficiency, it says, if it is to hold its own against frugal low-cost carriers on short-haul routes and deep-pocketed competitors from the Gulf on long-haul ones.
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Soon after its East Coast launch, a secondary base was opened in Long Beach, California with a mix of transcontinental routes and short-haul routes to nearby destinations such as Oakland and Las Vegas.
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TOULOUSE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The head of European planemaker ATR said on Friday that talks over a deal with Iran to purchase 20 short-haul passenger aircrafts had finished and the deal was imminent.
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French ticket taxes are as low as 1 euro for short-haul economy and 45 euros for long-haul business class, while EU-wide the average weighted tax per passenger is around 11 euros.
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The trucker then drives a short-haul trip to a transfer hub outside of town, where they are met by one of Uber's self-driving trucks (with an Uber-employed safety driver on board).
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Any short-haul capacity cut by Alitalia would lead to "opportunities for easyJet," she told analysts after the airline reported first-half results, adding that Rome and northern Italy would be of particular interest.
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While Lufthansa and IAG have driven some consolidation, the top four airlines in Europe only account for 49 percent of the short-haul market whereas the top four in North America control 70 percent.
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Norwegian is trying to replicate on transatlantic flights the low-cost model that dominates the short-haul market, exemplified by the likes of Ryanair and easyJet, but is struggling to make the business profitable.
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The airline said it was running a full schedule at London's Gatwick airport on Monday and planned to operate all its long-haul flights from Heathrow, although some short-haul flights had been cancelled.
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BERLIN, July 30 (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa on Tuesday posted a decline in second-quarter earnings, hurt by price competition on short-haul routes in Germany and Austria as well as rising fuel costs.
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But the shortages are being felt across an industry where the budget airlines are flying tens of millions more passengers each year, driving an increase in European short-haul capacity of around seven percent.
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In addition to the possibility that the route could take less than half an hour, the train is a climate-friendly alternative to short-haul flights, a spokeswoman for the government told De Telegraaf.
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The airline said it anticipated operating 75 percent of medium-haul flights and 95 percent of long-haul services to and from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, and 82 percent of short-haul flights.
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"Just looking at ourselves, even, long haul and short haul are two different businesses, with a lot of different dependencies and factors playing in for how profitable you&aposre able to be," Knagge said.
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British Airways said on Thursday customers on its short-haul economy flights would be sold Marks & Spencer sandwiches because its customers said they would prefer to pay for food from a brand they recognize.
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The airline, which operates short-haul flights out of Toronto's city airport using a fleet of turboprop aircraft, said the unidentified outage affected about 400 passengers and five flights were cancelled, the airline said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British airline easyJet has moved a step closer to commercial electric flying on short-haul routes after its partner said it would begin development of engines for its electric narrow-body aircraft.
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Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers, Ryanair has helped drive down short-haul ticket prices in Europe by increasing its capacity by 22018 percent, or about 21.488 million seats, in the past two years.
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The announcement came on Monday as the UK flag carrier slashed flights on routes across its short-haul network in addition to previously announced route suspensions and reductions to Italy, South Korea, and Singapore.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British airline easyJet has moved a step closer to commercial electric flying on short-haul routes after its partner said it would begin development of engines for its electric narrow-body aircraft.
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Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers, Ryanair has helped drive down short-haul ticket prices in Europe by increasing its capacity by a third, or about 30 million seats, in the past two years.
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A brand new plane would require both firms to invest billions—and could lock them into technology that forecast developments in electric-hybrid short-haul aircraft may render obsolete in a few years' time.
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"The actual under-seat dimensions will vary by airline carrier, and things really get complicated when you consider the type of pet carrier, airline class seat, and short-haul or long-haul flights," Mrs.
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"No signs that anyone is prepared to reduce capacity, therefore we would anticipate the wave of consolidation in European short haul is not over," said analyst Neil Wilson, analyst at London-based broker market.com.
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Last week, he and other Boeing executives scored a major coup in winning British Airways owner IAG - a big Airbus short-haul user - over to an initial $24 billion deal for the 737 MAX.
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As a result much of the airspace around the tiny kingdom has been closed, and many of its short-haul flights to countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been grounded.
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"We couldn't figure out a way of reducing those losses significantly, either by selling the short haul airline or by improving it," Swaffield said, adding that he was working to help staff find jobs elsewhere.
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DUBAI, April 28 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways will offer wirelessly streamed movies and television shows to passengers on mainly short-haul flights as it removes entertainment screens from its Airbus A320 narrow-body fleet.
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It recently got rid of free food and drink in economy class on most short-haul flights (instead it is selling sandwiches and Percy Pig sweets from Marks & Spencer, another company beloved by Middle England).
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Carsten Spohr said low fuel prices and new technology to extend the life of aircraft, plus a good market for used aircraft meant Lufthansa was looking for more used aircraft, especially for short-haul operations.
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So ubiquitous are these mid-sized, short-haul aircraft that if you are sat on a modern plane with 120-200 seats you are all but guaranteed to be on an A320 or a 737.
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But since 2008, when China introduced battery-powered rubbish trucks for the Beijing Olympics, the most popular approach has been to use batteries in short-haul transport, especially along predictable routes where recharging is easy.
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How it works is that Uber will load up the freight on a conventional, human driven truck who collects the load from the shipper and then does a short haul run to a transfer hub.
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That self-driving test truck handles the highway driving for the longer portion of the trip, handing it off once again to a human-driven trip for the short haul cap to the overall journey.
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BERLIN, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline, is planning to introduce a business class service on short-haul flights in Europe, as part of a restructuring designed to return it to profitability.
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The airline posted a 12 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit but warned of possible further disruption by pilots and said it was not optimistic about average fares in European short-haul in the summer.
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Europe's biggest low-cost airline said that although passenger numbers had grown, the average fare it was able to charge had fallen to less than €2192 ($25) because of excess short-haul capacity in Europe.
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The impact of this, as I discussed in my original transport series, would be huge for commuting and real estate, and would be a devastating disruptor for short-haul air travel and some trucking routes.
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Dedicated specifically for short-haul weekend and long weekend travel, the travel tool lets users search for the top flight and hotel deals available across U.S. and Canadian destinations up to a month in advance.
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In a subsequent statement, British Airways said it intends to operate long-haul flights from Heathrow on a full schedule, and a "high proportion" of its short-haul flights as well on Monday, Reuters reported.
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Gulliver has also reported on an Airbus patent for "motorcycle-saddle" seats in short-haul cabins, and Boeing's application to patent a "transport vehicle upright sleep support system" (better characterised as "sleeping on the rope").
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The pilot is designed to help Toyota see what the impact of frequent cycling of its fuel cell system will do to the packs, as they'll be refueled often to run the short-haul trips.
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Lufthansa last month signed a 210 million euro ($249 million) deal to take over Niki and LG Walter, plus some short-haul planes, to cement its position in Germany and expand its Eurowings budget brand.
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Indicated 20.5 pct higher The loss-making carrier unveiled a far-reaching overhaul, including the planned lease of planes to Lufthansa, plus a move to separate out short-haul leisure flights into a new unit.
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The Shanghai-based company, which first flew in 2006, currently operates domestic routes or short-haul international flights to neighboring countries such as Japan, South Korea and Thailand, but is eyeing long-haul, intercontinental routes.
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Both have amassed thousands of new orders and shored up their domination of the global jet market by refreshing their short-haul models, though Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer continue to compete hard for sales.
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For Air Transat, that's carrying tourists from Canada to Europe and vice-versa, and for Thomas Cook, that's using the short-haul A321s to fly customers on holiday packages between northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
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In June Lufthansa said that Eurowings would aim to slash costs by 15% over the next three years and focus on short-haul flights as part of a plan to return to profit by 2021.
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Primera's transatlantic flights will start from as little as $99 one-way, thanks to the fuel-efficiency of the Airbus A321neo, a plane sized for short-haul journeys but capable of reaching mid-haul destinations.
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Analysts at Goodbody said the most likely initial outcome was the sale of the Condor long-haul business to Lufthansa, but that they were concerned about what would happen to the competitive short-haul unit.
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The Norway-based airline flies on a number of short-haul and long-haul routes that are also flown by Scandinavian Airlines, or SAS, the 73-year-old flag carrier for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
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JAL, which operates the short-haul low-cost Jetstar Japan joint venture with Australia's Qantas Airways, is setting up the new airline to compete against Peach as Japan benefits from a boom in international tourists.
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Supporters, however, say that even when complete the new airport will be too small to meet passenger demand and want Tegel retained to serve around 10 million passengers per year, mainly on short-haul flights.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's spot premiums for Russian ESPO Blend crude have rebounded from near record lows after surging supertanker rates made short-haul shipments more attractive to Chinese buyers, three sources told Reuters on Friday.
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The report said factors such as the age of fleets, the mix of long and short haul flights, the amount of freight carried and the density of seats would all affect carbon emissions per passenger.
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On an overall customer score basis, Which said BA scored 55% on short-haul, only 5353 percentage point behind last year, and 55% on long-haul, not far behind the 58% it scored last year.
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Scoot posted a profit of S$28 million, reversing a loss of S$67 million, and short-haul budget unit Tigerair posted a profit of S$14 million versus a loss of S$9 million.
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LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Britain's Monarch Airlines, grappling with competition from low-cost rivals, said on Thursday it was talking to potential partners after a report that parts of its short-haul network would be sold.
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Analysts agree upcoming union negotiations will be crucial, amid questions over whether O'Leary's pugnacious management style is still appropriate for a company that was once an upstart challenger but now dominates European short-haul air travel.
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Ryanair is also seeking deals to provide short-haul "feeder flights" to link passengers to routes operated by long-haul carriers and plans to start serving low-cost operator Norwegian Air Shuttle from April, O'Leary said.
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The carrier also has an "aspiration" to buy widebody jets for long-haul international flights at a later date, but for now is focused on adding more short-haul international flights to boost revenues, Boulter said.
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Spohr said Lufthansa also expected it could grow its short-haul operations by another 20 to 40 planes without falling foul of anti-trust concerns due to the expected exit of Air Berlin from the market.
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Europe's short-haul carriers have struggled in recent months with over-capacity and Britain's vote to leave the European Union, with low-cost rivals Wizz and easyJet both trimming their annual profit forecasts in recent weeks.
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Norwegian plans to use the extra cash to help cover costs of resulting from the grounding of its short-haul fleet of Boeing MAX aircraft and issues with engines on its long-haul Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
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But under the plans, it would add domestic routes such as Liverpool and Edinburgh, short-haul flights to Germany, Spain and France as well as long-haul flights to cities such as Jakarta and Panama City.
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"Air NZ operates its 787 fleet very differently to other airlines in that our aircraft operate on long-haul sectors rather than the multiple short-haul sectors that others such as ANA tend to," she said.
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LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - British Airways has sunk in the view of UK customers over the last year, with the former flag carrier now ranked third bottom short-haul airline, two places above budget carrier Ryanair.
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Norwegian plans to use the extra cash to help cover costs of resulting from the grounding of its short-haul fleet of Boeing MAX aircraft and issues with engines on its long-haul Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
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Ryanair has been seeking deals to provide short-haul "feeder flights" to link passengers to routes operated by long-haul carriers and had planned to start serving fellow low-cost operator Norwegian Air earlier this year.
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Founded by serial entrepreneurs from the online food delivery business, the firm says it brings greater efficiency to the short-haul freight industry where an estimated 40 percent of return journeys by local carriers are empty loads.
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"The recent share price rally needed an upgrade, in our view, with too much hope that better long-haul trading seen at flag carriers would come to pass in short-haul too," said analysts at Panmure Gordon.
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To the contrary, BA has risked a customer backlash through stingy measures such as removing free food on short-haul flights and imposing fees for checked luggage, both of which seem incongruous with its "full-service" proposition.
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To escape its predicament, the airline recently made a bid to "pivot" out of the loss-making short-haul market into long-haul, announcing an order for 15 more Boeing 737 MAX 8s, worth $1.7bn in June.
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Britain's flag carrier has been criticised for cutting legroom in economy, axeing free food and drink on short-haul flights and—horror of horror—the amuse bouche that used to be served before dinner in first class.
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IAG planned to connect more than 300 of its aircraft to the network, allowing customers to browse the internet and stream video, and have 72018 percent of its short-haul fleet equipped by early 2019, Inmarsat said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hong Kong's flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways will cut jobs and consider shifting some flights to its short-haul arm after completing the biggest review of its business in two decades, it said on Wednesday.
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The airport, 30 miles south of London which primarily serves passengers heading on short-haul flights to European destinations, said there were no flight delays linked to the issue, although a handful of people had missed flights.
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British finance minister Philip Hammond said in his annual budget that the 2019-20 level of Air Passenger Duty (APD) would be frozen for short haul and economy passengers, while those flying premium class would pay more.
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An aircraft that would carry between 220 and 0003 passengers on routes up to 5,000 miles would plug a gap in its fleet, between short-haul narrow-body jets and wide-bodied planes for long-haul travel.
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SpiceJet's Chairman Ajay Singh said his airline was studying the feasibility of Boeing's and Airbus' jets for longer haul international destinations, including western Europe and United States, as it looks to expand beyond short-haul international routes.
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Return business class flights from London to Madrid start from £163 ($198), though this would usually be in Club Europe (the short-haul business class seats, which are essentially the same as economy just with better food).
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The Indianapolis-based short-haul carrier, which feeds flights to American Airlines Group Inc, Delta Air Lines Inc and United Continental Holdings Inc brands, listed assets of $3.6 billion and $3.0 billion of liabilities, court documents showed.
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In the Asia-Pacific, the top short-haul searches between January and March were Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, while the long-haul searches were for London, Honolulu, Paris, Los Angeles and New York City.
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"Yields in the European short-haul market, in particular in the group's home markets Germany and Austria, are affected by sustained overcapacities caused by carriers willing to accept significant losses to expand their market share," it said.
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"Yields in the European short-haul market, in particular in the group's home markets, Germany and Austria, are affected by sustained overcapacities caused by carriers willing to accept significant losses to expand their market share," it said.
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"Bombardier expects the introduction of short haul flights and efforts to improve the business environment to lead to higher growth than originally planned," Francois Cognard, vice-president sales, Southeast Asia and Australasia at Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, said.
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If you're one of the 232,2000 people who thought they were getting a Tesla Model 3 this past quarter and didn't, good news: Tesla is getting into an entirely new product category: Short-haul electric semi trucks.
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Norwegian's fate rests on the still unproven strategy of adapting the success of low-cost short-haul travel to long-haul routes, as well as making a parallel bet on leasing out jets to rival carriers pay off.
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Shares in easyJet were down 6.4 percent after hitting a 3-1/2-year low as the company said security issues dampened demand and low fuel prices meant there was more competition in the European short-haul market.
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Another Iranian official said the talks, which appear to have accelerated as President Hassan Rouhani prepares to visit Europe this week, included about 45 short-haul A320s and as many as 40 of its A330 wide-body jets.
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A concept version of Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell truck is running short-haul drayage routes at the Port of Los Angeles as part of a feasibility study, which figures in to the port's efforts to reduce harmful emissions.
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"Lower air fares is the fault of the industry being too aggressive with expansion plans as there is now over-capacity in the short-haul market," investment group AJ Bell said in a commentary after the Ryanair warning.
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A person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday that Lufthansa, Germany's largest airline, was set to buy Air Berlin's Austrian leisure travel airline Niki, its LG Walter regional airline and also acquire some additional short-haul aircraft.
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With an angle on a long-neglected part of the shipping industry — the short-haul movement of cargo from docks to logistics centers — Dray Alliance is joining a growing startup scene for logistics businesses based in Los Angeles.
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At the same time, I wrote a series of four articles on the latest transport technologies, and the waves they would create with perspectives focused on the impact on retail, commercial real-estate, short-haul travel and hyperloop.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scandinavian airline SAS is in talks with Airbus about buying A320neo jets for its short-haul fleet and expects to agree a deal this spring after ending negotiations with rival planemaker Boeing, its finance chief said.
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Lufthansa signed a 210 million euro ($248 million) deal on Thursday to take over Air Berlin units Niki and LG Walter, plus some short-haul planes, to cement its position in Germany and expand its Eurowings budget brand.
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Lufthansa last month signed a 210 million euro ($249 million) deal to take over Air Berlin businesses Niki and LG Walter, plus some short-haul planes, to cement its position in Germany and expand its Eurowings budget brand.
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IAG said late last year it would start budget flights to U.S. destinations in June, using its budget short-haul brand Vueling, which has its hub at Barcelona's El Prat airport, to feed passengers to the longer routes.
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The company's new budget operation would not be operated by Vueling, which is focused on short-haul, nor would it use the Aer Lingus name because that brand is not as well known outside of Ireland, Walsh said.
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It's true that the short haul market that Ryanair has come to dominate is expected to grow at a healthy 6 percent rate in the future, according to Investec, and the structure of its workforce is unusually flexible.
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Independent aviation consultant John Strickland said Ryanair's arrival in Frankfurt would have little direct impact on Lufthansa's network but could help the German carrier underline to unions and staff the need to cut costs on short-haul services.
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Choosing between so many redemption options can be challenging, but my three favorite redemption choices — short-haul British Airways partner bookings, Delta saver awards, and ultra-luxury international flights — can help you get the most value per point.
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Ryanair on Monday warned rivals that it may cut its late summer fares by as much as 231 percent compared to last year and said some short-haul carriers may struggle to survive with prices at those levels.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran and European planemaker ATR are due to sign a deal next week for the purchase of 20 short-haul passenger aircraft, an Iranian official said on Saturday, weeks after Tehran finalised deals with Boeing (BA.
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The airline group said that flight cancellations as a result of the virus meant capacity growth for this year would be lower, and it expected to cut flights on its short-haul European network in the coming days.
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Even the short-haul flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Cabo San Lucas (SJD) — just 900 miles and flown by over a half-dozen airlines — was showing round-trip fares of over $323 during the weeks surrounding Christmas.
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While airlines can copy some short-haul tricks such as sticking to one aircraft type and charging for extras, there are challenges around keeping long-haul planes in use and staff costs - because overnight crew stops cannot be avoided.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said on Thursday it will no longer provide free snacks and food in economy class on short-haul and domestic flights, joining budget carriers like Ryanair and easyJet which charge for sandwiches and other items.
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It's also the case that troops being sent to the country may have to travel to Europe on short-haul military flights and then switch to other aircraft to keep airlift cargo planes free to keep moving hurricane supplies.
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A helicopter made it to the site early on Monday, and a park ranger used a "short-haul" technique – descending from the hovering aircraft on a secured line – to examine the crash scene, said Park Service spokesman Peter Christian.
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Temperatures were around minus 5 degrees Celsius with periodic snowfall when the short-haul AN-148 operated by Saratov Airlines took off for the city of Orsk in Orenburg region, about 900 miles (1,500 km) southeast of the capital.
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Among other notable movers, EasyJet rose to the top of the blue-chip index after an upgrade from Morgan Stanley analysts, citing consolidation in the short-haul airline industry and a strong euro-sterling exchange rate as supportive factors.
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LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic is hoping to add over 80 new routes to its network after a third runway is built at London's Heathrow Airport including short-haul and domestic flights, the British airline said on Wednesday.
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Besides city driving, Volvo said the 163c would extend its customer base by tapping into demand from inter-city taxi passengers traveling as far as 300 km (186 miles), allowing it to challenge short-haul airlines and train operators.
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Members of BA's "mixed fleet" cabin crew - those who work on both long and short-haul flights - have been in conflict with BA since last year over wage offers which the Unite trade union has described as "poverty pay".
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PARIS, May 13 (Reuters) - Air France will cut 465 ground staff jobs from its domestic services as it reduces short-haul capacity under competitive pressure from low-cost rivals and high-speed trains, parent company Air France-KLM said on Monday.
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Even if COMAC manages to stick to its revised date for launching the aircraft into service, 2021, the C919 will be woefully fuel-inefficient compared with the latest re-engined versions of the short-haul aircraft made by Airbus and Boeing.
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Germany has been slow to open up to low-cost airlines, which typically account for about 10-20 percent of traffic at Germany's airports compared to a short-haul market share of over 50 percent in Europe as a whole.
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In an onstage interview with me today at the Nantucket Conference, Uber products head Jeff Holden said the fast-growing ride sharing company was seriously looking at a new form of transportation to offer its customers: Short-haul flying in cities.
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The airline and its other full-service rivals have long been seeking ways to bring pilot costs down as they vie with younger, leaner Gulf carriers on long-haul routes and fast-growing low-cost rivals on short-haul routes.
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Lufthansa, led by CEO Carsten Spohr, insists that despite a record profit in 22019, it has no choice but to cut costs to compete with leaner rivals such as Ryanair on short-haul routes and Emirates on long-haul flights.
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Worries over the risky transition from the world's most-sold jet engine, which powers all Boeing and many Airbus short-haul planes, to the fuel-saving LEAP overshadowed stronger-than-expected first-half profit and sent Safran stock down 5 percent.
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Retail revenue per passenger at Frankfurt fell to 3.31 euros in the first quarter from 3.86 euros one year ago, also hit by currency effects and more passengers on short-haul flights, who typically do not shop in duty free.
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Acknowledging the competitive landscape, Cathay recently undertook what was the biggest review of its business in two decades and said it would cut jobs and consider shifting some flights to its short-haul arm as part of a three year programme.
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The New Zealand airline had pushed for Virgin to abandon its international widebody fleet, focus on more profitable domestic and short-haul operations and appoint a new CEO, but it lost the argument in a boardroom bust-up, the source said.
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The change comes as BA's parent company IAG tries to cut costs at a time of increasing competition in the European short-haul market and will narrow the gap between flights offered by BA and its low-cost, no-frills rivals.
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"They've told us we are experts in flying and service, but when it comes to catering on short-haul flights, they want to choose from a wider range of premium products," BA chief executive Alex Cruz said in the statement.
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The rapidly expanding airline, which offers transatlantic flights as well as European short haul, has seen an improvement in trading, likely due in part to problems experienced by rival Ryanair, and the collapse of Monarch and Air Berlin, Oestby said.
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This winter, Air Transat will fly ten of Thomas Cook's A321 short-haul planes between Canadian and Caribbean destinations, while Thomas Cook will use four of Air Transat's larger A330s to fly Europeans to long-haul destinations, such as the Caribbean.
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IAG will use the jets order, which includes the 737 Max 8 and the larger Max 10 that Boeing is developing, for short-haul flights across its airlines, which also include Iberia, Aer Lingus and low-cost carriers Vueling and Level.
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Hrafn Thorgeirsson, Primera's chief executive, says his upcoming A321LRneos will have a 40-45% cost advantage over the Boeing 757, an older "middle of the market" plane that merged short-haul capacity with long-haul range, but ceased production in 2004.
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Airbus launched a long-range version of its successful A2777 jet with 22020 orders and commitments in Paris, only to see its short-haul position among IAG brands eroded by the huge deal which shores up the embattled 737 MAX.
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In a video statement posted on Twitter, Cruz said due to the knock-on impact of disruptions on Saturday caused by a global computer system failure, there would be delays and some short haul flights would be cancelled from Heathrow.
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LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - British Airways-owner IAG said there was nothing new to say when asked about the possibility of a further bid for low-cost carrier Norwegian, adding that that carrier's short-haul network continued to look attractive.
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Lufthansa said on Wednesday it was having to use bigger long-haul aircraft on some short-haul routes as a result of the additional demand caused by the collapse of Air Berlin, which will carry out its final flight on Friday.
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Flybe was set to be re-branded as Virgin Connect and would serve as a regional airline operating short-haul flights as part of Virgin Atlantic's network, connecting to the larger airline's international hubs in London's Heathrow airport, Manchester, and Glasgow.
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"For short-haul flights from London to Europe, we know that for customers booking an economy flight, cost and convenience are the important elements to them, whereas catering is not," said Caroline Niven, vice president for communications for British Airlines.
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Ending free food on short-haul routes, ancient video screens, evasive call centres, cramming in more seats, charging for bags and seat allocation on shorter routes and other money-saving measures looked like penny-pinching and have hurt its upmarket image.
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Boeing would probably go ahead with the upgrade rather than build a widely touted and costlier jet in the 'middle of the market,' where Boeing is studying a gap between short-haul and big wide-body jets, Leahy told journalists.
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Among other notable movers, EasyJet rose to the top of the blue-chip index, up 4.7 percent, after an upgrade from Morgan Stanley analysts, citing consolidation in the short-haul airline industry and a strong euro-sterling exchange rate as supportive factors.
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Joining the race for new autonomous aircraft services that do not require runways, EHang entered a strategic partnership with Austria's FACC, owned by Chinese aerospace group AVIC, last year, aiming to offer short-haul services for passengers, industrial equipment and urgent medical deliveries.
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Such a purchase would be in line with the predictions of Iranair, whose chairman told Reuters in an interview 18 months ago that, as soon as sanctions were eased, Iran would seek to obtain at least 100 wide-body and short-haul jets.
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Eurowings, which mostly offers short-haul flights in Europe, had already delayed the start of some new long-haul destinations, such as Miami and Boston, and parent Lufthansa has been operating some routes on its behalf as it tries to resolve issues.
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PARIS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - French aerospace suppliers face a "difficult" 12 months as they gear up for a sharp rise in production of short-haul aircraft at the same time as the output of older, bigger models declines, executives said on Wednesday.
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In recent years it has got rid of free food and drink in economy class on most short-haul flights, squeezed 20% more seats onto some of its planes and—horror of horrors—removed fresh flowers from its loos in first class.
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Companies like Shippabo, a provider of shipping tracking and logistics for international small cargo transport, and NEXT Trucking, which handles long-haul and short-haul trucking, have both launched in the Los Angeles area to tackle different areas of the shipping industry.
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"Although short-haul destinations such as Hong Kong and Macau are currently the most popular among Chinese tourists (due to proximity and shared languages), the destination mix is rapidly shifting to long-haul destinations, " authors of the report wrote at the time.
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Joining the race for new autonomous aircraft services that do not require runways, EHang entered a strategic partnership with Austria's FACC, owned by Chinese aerospace group AVIC , last year, aiming to offer short-haul services for passengers, industrial equipment and urgent medical deliveries.
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Doubts are creeping in because Norwegian's fate rests on the still unproven strategy of adapting the success of low-cost short-haul travel to long-haul routes, as well as making a parallel bet on leasing out jets to rival carriers pay off.
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BERLIN, March 8 (Reuters) - Airport operator Fraport expects passenger numbers at Frankfurt airport to grow again this year by over 3 million people, driven by short-haul traffic in Europe as it attracts more low cost carriers, its chief executive said on Thursday.
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Lufthansa is trying to cut costs as it battles to compete with low-cost rivals in Europe on short-haul routes and fast-growing Gulf carriers on long-haul flights, but has met opposition from unions, much like Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA).
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"As our IT systems move closer to full operational capacity, we will again run a full schedule at Gatwick and intend to operate a full long-haul schedule and a high proportion of our short-haul programme at Heathrow," the airline said.
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Birmingham and Stansted have done well to attract domestic and short-haul traffic, but both are struggling to set up and keep the long-haul routes that are Heathrow's bread and butter; planned new routes from Birmingham to China were scrapped last month.
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Imposing an "air miles levy" would "limit rising demand for flying in a way that does not make it inaccessible to lower-income households [and] encourage shift in demand from flying to trains and from long-haul to short-haul," the report said.
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The wattage is comparable to about seven times the peak output from a Tesla Model S. Airbus has previously estimated that a regional short-haul plane able to carry around 100 people would need a combined power output of about 20 megawatts.
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In an onstage interview with me today at the Nantucket Conference, Uber products head Jeff Holden said that the fast-growing ride-sharing company was seriously looking at a new form of transportation to offer its customers: Short-haul flying in cities.
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They see the two as narrowly focused on getting European countries to buy more American goods over the short haul, the official said — a strategy they perceive as aimed at giving Mr. Ross and Mr. Trump photo opportunities at American steel factories.
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FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget airline Eurowings will aim to cut costs by 2900% over the next three years and focus on short-haul flights as part of a plan to return to profit by 22022, the German carrier said on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Freight logistics start-up OnTruck has raised 25 million euros ($28.8 million) to fund expansion across Europe after initial success in Spain and a recent move into London demonstrated the value of its novel short-haul strategy, the company said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN, June 24 (Reuters) - German carrier Lufthansa announced a turnaround plan for Eurowings on Monday, saying its budget unit would in future focus on short-haul flights and seek a 15% cut in unit costs by 2022 in a bid to return to profit.
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The 33-year-old Dempsey will run out of steam before the next World Cup, but rather than draft in a like-for-like replacement, he chose another 33-year-old, Wondolowski, who Argentina exposed as barely an adequate sub in the short haul.
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The rapidly expanding airline, which offers transatlantic flights as well as European short haul, said late on Thursday that bookings for the coming year were stronger than this time last year, even when taking into account significant growth in the size of its fleet.
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Ryanair's shares closed on Friday at 10.81 euros, down more than 40% from a peak of 19.39 euros 18 months ago, before the airline was hit by a wave of industrial unrest, weakness in European short-haul fares and the grounding of the MAX.
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That ambition, though, is as much about commercial aircraft as it is about fighter jets, and in particular one model was noticeably absent from the show: the C7373, a single-aisle short-haul passenger jet which China is developing to take on Airbus and Boeing.
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The EU report shows that just six out of 28 EU member states levy ticket taxes on international flights, with Britain's rates by far the highest at about 14 euros for short-haul economy flights and up to 23 euros for long-haul business class.
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Ryanair's shares closed on Friday at 10.81 euros, down over 40 percent from a peak of 19.39 euros 18 months ago, before the airline was hit by a wave of industrial unrest, weakness in European short-haul fares and the grounding of the Max.
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Plans for the new airline, which will launch short-haul routes in the autumn from Paris Charles de Gaulle followed by long-haul routes in 2018, were approved by pilots this week as part of a package of measures to increase productivity at Air France.
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Airbus announced a new version of its best-selling A2330 with close to 2787 orders and commitments in Paris, only to see its grip on IAG's European short-haul networks damaged by the Boeing deal which analysts said shores up the embattled 220 MAX.
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Norwegian's plan to bring the low-cost model that has proven so successful on short-haul routes in Europe to flights across the Atlantic has affected IAG's British Airways more than other carriers in Europe because Norwegian has targeted flying from Britain in particular.
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On the Beach currently has about a 20 percent share of Britain's online short-haul beach holiday market with TUI and Thomas Cook its biggest competitors, but unlike them, it sells package holidays it builds through flights and hotel space sold by other operators.
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Air Canada has Maple Leaf lounges in several airports along its various routes available to both long- and short-haul business class travelers, as well as a Signature Suite in Toronto available only to international business class travelers flying in the newer Signature Class.
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For Monarch, "mounting cost pressures and increasingly competitive market conditions in the European short-haul market" led to "a sustained period of trading losses," Blair Nimmo, a partner at the accounting firm KPMG, which is acting as administrator for company, said in a news release.
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Airbus announced a new version of its best-selling A2321 with close to 2330 orders and commitments in Paris, only to see its grip on IAG's European short-haul networks damaged by the Boeing deal which analysts said shores up the embattled 2787 MAX.
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At IAG, flight cancellations due to falling travel demand would constrain capacity growth this year, it said, adding it expected to cut more flights on its short-haul European network in the coming days, in response to an outbreak of the virus in Italy.
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"It will become more expensive to fly, above all on short-haul flights," Vice Chancellor and Greens leader Werner Kogler told a news conference on Thursday at which the moves were outlined after a cabinet meeting in Krems an der Donau on the River Danube.
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He added that there were plans to order between 40 and 60 additional Piper aircraft over the next two to three years for short-haul air shuttle and personal use — that estimate could also increase according to "how we cultivate the market," Li said.
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In a scenario with 1 million self-driving trucks on the road by 2028, Uber says 1 million drivers would shift to short haul drives since the trucks can handle the lengthy highway trips and 400,000 new jobs would be needed to keep up with truck demand.
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Uber has a video depicting this journey, which took place staring in then midwest and then via short haul to Sanders, Arizona, where it was loaded onto an autonomous truck and then transferred to Topock, Arizona, where it made the switch to another human-driven vehicle.
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The Chief Executive of EasyJet, which has expressed interest in Alitalia's short haul routes, says the "process" is still ongoing and that the group would "like to do in Italy what has been done in Germany," where its offer was the one preferred by the unions.
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In response to the low-cost threat, and mindful of how it was slow to react to short-haul budget carriers in Europe, BA parent IAG has set up budget long-haul unit Level, cut costs and moved to offer stripped back fares on North Atlantic routes.
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Lufthansa, which had issued a profit warning last month, blamed price competition on short-haul routes and rising fuel and maintenance costs as it said second-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fell by 22019% on the year to 22 million euros ($22.4 million).
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"Investors have been discounting that [certain airlines would] lose a lot of traffic to rail when this happens because for the short-haul flights, the economics make sense for passengers to to switch to rail," Png told CNBC's "Squawk Box" after the Malaysian government announced its decision.
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"Ryanair today notified passengers that it was reducing its short haul flight program (mainly to and from Italy) by up to 25% for a 3 week period from Tues 17th Mar to Wed 8th Apr, in response to the Covid-19 Virus," Ryanair said in a statement.
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In June, it is expected that short-haul sea vessels will be the first to undergo LNG bunkering through STS operations in the port of Rotterdam, followed by LNG-fuelled cruise ships in November and then larger deep-sea vessels by the end of 2019, said Boon.
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Exposure to Turkey plus overcapacity in the German airline market, meant Condor dragged on Thomas Cook's profitability, and as such the company said it was implementing a turnaround plan to try to improve profits by focusing the airline away from short-haul flights to longer-haul flights.
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After the climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed the Atlantic in treacherous waters just to avoid flying to a United Nations summit in New York this summer, many travelers in Europe pledged never to fly again, or at least to drop short-haul flights for trains and buses.
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The success of Solar Impulse has instilled confidence in solar technology for flight, so much so that Piccard predicts that "before 10 years' time, we will have short-haul electric airplanes for 50 people," adding that it could be the beginning of a paradigm shift in the transportation industry.
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It's our vision that one day we'll expand Surf Air to be accessible, with our flight operators, across the online travel booking websites and in every region around the globe where short-haul travel is broken, while still maintaining the quality and value of our membership-first business model.
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Rapid expansion by the budget airline (which began operating as a low-cost carrier with Boeing 737 aircraft in 9503 and which operates both long and short-haul routes) left the company with high debt and losses that have prompted it to announce recent measures designed to cut costs.
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FRYING THE PLANET The EU report shows that just six out of 28 EU member states levy ticket taxes on international flights, with Britain's rates by far the highest at about 14 euros for short-haul economy flights and up to 23 euros for long-haul business class.
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The flight tax, outlined in the coalition agreement this month, will change an existing tax on flights out of Austria, which ranges from 3.50 euros ($3.88) per passenger for short-haul journeys to 17.50 euros for long-haul flights, replacing it with a single levy of 12 euros.
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Jacobs added: "Given that all our flights are short-haul, very little alcohol is actually sold on board, so it's incumbent on the airports to introduce these preventative measures to curb excessive drinking and the problems it creates, rather than allowing passengers to drink to excess before their flights."
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"In an environment of aviation overcapacity, particularly in European short haul as the sector continues to experience a flood of planes, and indications of corporate booking weakness raising warning signs for long-haul travel ... higher fuel prices are the last thing the sector needs," wrote analysts at Bernstein.
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Analysts said, however, that a deal to lease Air Berlin planes and crews for short-haul routes next summer seemed to be more of a defensive move to stop Ryanair and easyJet gaining a foothold in Germany at the expense of Air Berlin, which has been losing money for years.
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The airlines are busy swapping old jets for new because the planemakers have brought out more fuel-efficient versions of the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, their short-haul models; and introduced new long-haul models, the Boeing 7473 Dreamliner and Airbus A350, which are also more efficient than older equivalents.
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The Vision One packs in batteries with storage capacity of up to 300 kilowatt hours, and that 220 miles of range allow for short haul trips between relatively closely spaced cities – not suitable for long haul, of focuses, but more flexible in terms of carrying large loads over medium distances.
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Volocopter is in a race with more than a dozen well-funded European and U.S. firms, each with its own science fiction-inspired vision for creating a new form of urban transport that is a cross between a driverless electric car and a short-haul, vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
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Other initiatives the premium Asian carrier has announced so far as part of the three-year transformation program include adding more seats to its Airbus SE A380s, shifting some routes to low-cost carrier Scoot and merging the finance teams of the flagship airline and its short-haul arm SilkAir.
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Although the A350 (and thus the new suites) will be rolled out on long-haul flights from September following the short-haul trials to Madrid, it looks like it may be a while before all of BA's existing planes have been replaced — but the airline is certainly stepping up its game.
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Key findings: The study found that, based on sea level rise projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: About 4,000 miles of fiber conduit (both long and short-haul) will be underwater and about 1,000 nodes, or connection points, "will be surrounded by water" in the next 15 years.
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The country is already leading the way in the sale of electric cars, and its remote islands and fjords mean that its domestic air routes are some of the busiest in Europe, according to Forbes, meaning it has a large short-haul domestic flight market with the potential to be electrified.
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Southwest has struggled to maintain operational reliability due to the Max grounding, and has been forced to defer retirements of some older 737-700 aircraft, as well as rework its schedule to focus on short-haul flights and connections as opposed to point-to-point longer-haul missions, Kelly said.
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Here's the catch though: What got me started are what I call "bite-sized books": books made up of loads of small chunks that are easy to dip in and out of, whether you have two minutes free standing in line or an hour to kill on a short-haul flight.
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Many suggest the speed limits on highways could rise with the improved safety expected to come with autonomous cars; and while no one is willing to put an exact figure on this, the higher travel speeds of driverless cars could end up balancing out the time saved by traveling via short-haul flight.
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The airlines are busy swapping old jets for new ones because the planemakers have brought out more fuel-efficient versions of the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, their short-haul models; and introduced new long-haul models, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350, which are also more economical than older equivalents.
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With legacy carriers such as Air France-KLM and Lufthansa struggling to bring costs down on their namesake brands to compete with low cost carriers on short haul routes, using low-cost carriers instead for feeder flights could be a more cost effective way of bringing passengers to hubs for long-haul connections.
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Multiple European airlines including Germany's Lufthansa have already tested these fuels on short-haul flights over the past few years, and major carriers like United are also planning to buy millions of barrels of waste-produced biofuel, and the U.S. Department of Energy is funding experiments in producing cheap fuel from fats and greases.
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Ryanair, which makes most of its profit in the summer, said fares were down 22018 percent so far for April to September with just under a fifth of bookings in place, and pointed to a "flat to slightly down-ish" trend for the year ending March 219 if short-haul overcapacity in Europe continues.
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As far as I can see, I have no idea why you'd pay so much more money to travel business on a short-haul flight: A return flight from London to Madrid in BA's Euro Traveller class (economy) starts at £70 ($85), whereas the same trip in Club Europe (business) starts at £326 ($396).
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I won't go into that part of the question, but you can imagine if you're just using solar ... I'm sorry, if you're choosing battery charging in order to power your short-haul truck, you're saving thousands of dollars a year, and that definitely is lucrative for a lot of truckers when it comes down to it, right?
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The Zunum Aero plane is designed around the idea that by routing more traffic to regional hub airports, and providing much lower operating costs for smaller craft with between 10 and 50 seats that do short-haul trips, between locations like L.A. and Silicon Valley, air travel can become much more efficient and convenient for commuters.
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The operator of one of Europe's main centres for eastern European destinations sees net profit reaching at least 165 million euros ($187 million) on revenue of more than 820 million euros this year, thanks to new routes to Canada and Japan and new short-haul and medium-haul destinations served by IAG's Vueling, Wizz Air and Ryanair.
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Uber is making moves to expand the scope of its flying car experiment – the company just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore, who worked at the federal agency as an advanced aircraft engineer and basically kickstarted the current interest in vertical take-off and landing craft for short-haul urban flight with a 2010 paper on the feasibility of the helicopter-like vehicles.
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Each dragon will take on characteristics and cues unique to the aircraft's livery, country and even flight path — a short-haul Airbus operated by Lufthansa, for instance, might be displayed as a small European-style dragon with yellow-and-blue markings, while a long-haul Norwegian Air flight could show up as a large Nordic-style dragon with a red head.
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So what we're increasingly doing on the Marine side is looking at other forms of Marine, you were nice enough to say a small dip, there but it's been a really really tough market in the last two or three years for Marine but there are areas of growth, for example in tugs and short haul which we're increasingly looking to focus on.
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"An Air Miles Levy which escalates with the air miles travelled by an individual within a three year accounting period could provide strong price signals to curb some demand by less price-sensitive frequent flyers, encourage shifting from long-haul to short-haul destinations and fund research into low-carbon aviation technology, while sparing the large majority of travellers any extra cost," it said.
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Read more:I flew business class for the first time on British Airways' new A350, and the cocoon-like privacy impressed me far more than the food or the loungeI flew business class both long and short-haul on British Airways, and I have no idea why anyone would pay for the latterBusta Rhymes was reportedly escorted off a first class British Airways flight after an alleged 'verbal altercation' with another passenger over luggage space
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Read more:Inside Qantas' new first class suites, which come with pre-flight facials, all-you-can-drink kombucha, and designer 'sleeper suits'I flew business class both long and short-haul on British Airways, and I have no idea why anyone would pay for the latterI flew business class for the first time on British Airways' new A350, and the cocoon-like privacy impressed me far more than the food or the lounge
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Read more:I sat in all three classes on Emirates, and while the jump from economy to business was massive, I couldn&apost work out why someone would pay so much more for firstYou can now buy your way into Qantas&apos first and business class airport lounges for as little as $35I flew business class both long and short-haul on British Airways, and I have no idea why anyone would pay for the latter
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Read more:An Instagram thrill-seeker's plane crashed into the ocean — and some are questioning whether it was a stuntI flew business class both long and short-haul on British Airways, and I have no idea why anyone would pay for the latterAirbus is introducing a feature on its new planes to track everything you do, including how often you use the bathroomA couple who met in flight attendant school and fell in love on the job 30 years ago inspired their kids to become flight attendants, too
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Read more:I flew on the 'world's worst short-haul airline,' Ryanair, and it was so comfortable and stress-free it was one of the best flights I've been onRyanair quietly grounded Boeing 737 planes over 'pickle fork' cracking, becoming the latest airline to act on the problemRival airlines are hiking prices by as much as 400% after Thomas Cook collapsedThe CEO of one of the world's largest airlines said Boeing needs to get its 's--- together' as the ongoing 737 Max crisis hits the carrier's profits
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