Pegasus Airlines to launch third Skopje route

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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.

Pegasus Airlines to launch third Skopje route

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Low cost carrier Pegasus Airlines will introduce scheduled seasonal summer flights between Antalya and Skopje from June, complementing its existing Istanbul service and its upcoming new Izmir route. The airline will launch flights between the coastal city and Macedonia’s capital on June 4 and maintain two weekly rotations with its Airbus A320 aircraft. Frequencies will be reduced to one per week from October 4 until the end of the summer season later that month. Pegasus faces stiff competition on the route, which is also served by Anadolujet up to eleven times per week and SunExpress up to four times per week. Further flight details can be found here.

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Anonymous10:50
Why none of these flights depart/arrive in normal hours...I've been using these flights for the last 3-4 years for a vacation in Antalya but when you arrive early in the morning pretty much your whole next day is wasted in the lobby and once you'll get the room most often after 11am or later you go to bed and get your night sleep...On the day of departure, you do get few extra hours to enjoy the resort but if you travel with children without the room its very tough, plus you travel again very late in the night and till the time you get home its after 4am and you need to sleep again the next day...
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Anonymous11:39
Same problem I faced traveling with Sun Express. The flight from Skopje was about 3 am, and the flight back to Skopje was similar about 2 am. I have spent the first day of arrival sleeping untiil 6 pm once I arrived in Antalya. To be honest its not a good traveling schedule. It should be done in early morning to leave from Skopje and late afternoon from Antalya.
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Anonymous13:25
it would be great if they started seasonal flights to ohrid.
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Anonymous13:33
Ankara is next
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