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Royal Air Maroc plans to streamline operations on CMN-AMS-CMN from 7 September 2013. Until this date the airline operates 12x/week, but from 7 September this will be reduced to 1x/daily flight:
- dep. 13:50 AMS - arr. 16:20 CMN AT 855 Non-Stop B737 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun - until 7 Sept.
- dep. 17:40 AMS - arr. 20:10 CMN AT 851 Non-Stop B737 daily - FROM 7 Sept.
- dep. 20:35 AMS - arr. 23:05 CMN AT 853 Non-Stop B737 daily - until 7 Sept.
XYZ wrote:Just to show you the network strength of ETIHAD, EY has now completed its Summer 2013 listings in the reservations systems for AMS-AUH.
It takes the airline from zero operations (Summer 2012) to 3x/daily (Summer 2013):
- dep. 10:20 AMS - arr. 19:05 AUH EY 7117 Non-Stop A332 Daily ex. Wed - codeshare GA
- dep. 11:35 AMS - arr. 20:05 AUH EY 7307 Non-Stop A332 Daily - codeshare KL
- dep. 22:00 AMS - arr. 06:35 AUH EY 078 Non-Stop A332 Daily - own metal
'Own metal' is rumoured to be a leased A330 from AF/KL, awaiting deliveries.
makes perfect sense if you look at the timings.
With the expected schedule a KLM ac would have a 3 hr turn around in AUH and an Etihad ac would have 7h20 ground time in AMS
Etihad second daily flight to CDG is also to be operated by an AFR Airbus
We'll probably be seeing less of Air Europa this summer. As of May, Thomas Cook Netherlands will stop using UX on flights via MAD to CUN and PUJ, in favor of Condor via FRA.
The Turkish carriers have released more details for their Summer 2013 operations:
- PEGASUS raises SAW-AMS-SAW to 2x/daily - this raises AMS-SAW to 5x/daily on HV, TK & PC:
- TK's new 1x/daily SAW-AMS-SAW will be operated by SunExpress, according to their schedule info.
- TK 1954 - dep. 18.15 to IST will be operated by Meridiana IG A330 with F, J, Y on Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri. according to the TK schedule.
Following the liberalisation of the pax. market between the EU and Marocco, RAM has decided to raise frequency AMS-Nador from 7x/week to 8x/week in peak summer 2013. Together with Corendon (2x) and Air Arabia Maroc (2x), total frequency on this route will reach 12x/week in Summer 2013.
Freighter airline China Cargo Airlines has released its summer schedule for 2013.
The new schedule sees further expansion of its freighter services to/from AMS and the re-introduction of the B747F:
- dep. 15.45 CK 208 Tianjin, Shanghai = Wed, Fri, Sun - B747F
- dep. 16.00 CK 208 Tianjin, Shanghai = Thu, Sat - B777F
- dep. 16.05 CK 206 Shanghai = Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun - B777F