Strong August for Pristina Airport

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British Airways ditches LCC plans

British Airways has abandoned plans to launch a low cost carrier at London's second biggest airport, Gatwick, blaming pilots for its decision to scrap the new initiative. The reversal comes less than a month after British Airways unveiled plans for a short-haul subsidiary to compete with Ryanair and easyJet in an area of aviation that is recovering more quickly from the pandemic than transatlantic and other long haul routes that used to generate most of its profit. It had hoped to start operating by next summer. "We're disappointed that our plans for a new short haul subsidiary at Gatwick have not received [the British Airline Pilots' Association] support", British Airways, which is owned by International Airlines Group, said. It added, "After many years of losing money on European flights from the airport, we were clear that coming out of the pandemic, we needed a plan to make Gatwick profitable and competitive," the company added, saying it would pursue "alternative uses" for slots at Gatwick. In a statement, the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) said that it was unable to reach an "acceptable" agreement with British Airways despite its "best efforts". "BALPA remains open to future negotiations with British Airways to address our members' concerns with the proposal for [London Gatwick] short haul or about any other part of the business", the group added.
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Strong August for Pristina Airport

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Pristina Airport has registered a strong start to August with passenger numbers growing 18.7% during the first week of the month when compared to the same period last year. The airport has welcomed an average of 11.420 travellers per day or a total of 79.937 passengers on 521 flights between August 1 and 7. It follows on from a record 1.338.994 travellers handled during the first seven months of the year.

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Anonymous14:15
Bad news for SKP, the difference will be quite big this year if PRN continues like this. Such strong performance will also reduce the difference with DBV. The three airports were literally tied last month!
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Anonymous14:47
They are publishing results on a weekly basis now? xD
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Anonymous17:45
300k PAX this August then! this months PRN should detach from SKP
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azdren20:38
going to go down to wire bewteen PRN and SKP !
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