Eurowings to launch new Pristina service

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China Eastern crash intentional

Flight data indicates a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March was intentionally put into a nose-dive. Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet, the reports say, citing a preliminary assessment by US officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it crashed. All 132 passengers and crew on board the plane died in the crash. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit", according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, citing a person familiar with US officials' preliminary assessment of the cause of the crash. Data from one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, which was recovered from the crash site, suggested that inputs to the controls pushed the plane into a near-vertical dive, the report said. China Eastern Airlines previously said the three pilots on board were qualified and in good health. The airline separately told the Wall Street Journal that there was no indication that any of the pilots was in financial trouble. Last month, the CAAC said reports that the plane may have been crashed deliberately had "gravely misled the public" and "interfered with accident investigation work". Investigators are still in the process of analysing flight data and the wreckage from the crash, Chinese state media outlet the Global Times reported. It also said the CAAC will continue to "carry out the accident investigation in a scientific, rigorous and orderly manner". The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal's report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization.

Eurowings to launch new Pristina service

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Eurowings will commence flights from Pristina to Zurich this week, entering a crowded market. The low cost airline will operate a one weekly service between the two cities, each Sunday, starting November 14. Switzerland is Pristina’s largest country market, with Chair Airlines, Edelweiss Air and Helvetic Airways maintaining services from Zurich. Pristina Airport has been more resilient than most others in Europe to the Covid-19 downturn as it depends on a high volume of diaspora traffic who are based in the European Union, and, in turn, are permitted to enter both their country of residence, as well as their homeland. The airport is outperforming its pre-Covid results. Further flight details for the new Zurich – Pristina service can be found here.

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Anonymous11:00
Apparently, the union of the cabin personnel of Swiss is not very happy that a Lufthansa Low cost carrier is starting flights from and to Switzerland.
In this context, they are also asking the federal government to investigate if this is in line with the state aid, the federation provided to Swiss (and indirectly Lufthansa as a parent company) during the Pandemic.
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Visit Kosovo12:47
PRN October 2021 figures:
195,692 pax
Up 25% compared to 2020
Up 4% compared to 2019

PRN January-October 2021 figures:
1,818,857 pax
Up 106% compared to 2020
Down 1.4% compared to 2019

A few observations:
1. Unless something dramatic happens, PRN is expected to hit 2 million pax in 2021.
2. Depending on how December 2021 goes, this could be the best year ever for PRN.
3. The much maligned independent travel agents (famiglia agencies or whatever people call them on this site) have really done wonders for PRN this year. Where airlines have been reluctant to resume flights or open new routes they have stepped in and brought it significant passenger numbers. They don't get much coverage, if any, but they have opened routes to places like Lyon, Turku, Stockholm with flights operated by Trade Air and GP Aviation and they have done very well.
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