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Latest news #6

Well, its been a while since our last update but things here are really quiet, as usual during the winter months. A couple of news worth mentioning:

KOLOSSOS BC PRESENTED AEGEAN AS ITS "GOLDEN" SPONSOR

In a ceremony that took place last Monday at a city's central hotel, Kolossos basket club, the island's team sports pride, presented Aegean Airlines as its "golden" sponsor. Aegean from the beginning of the league season is the main sponsor on Kolossos game shirt.

During the ceremony Aegean's VP Mr E. Vassilakis noticed the importance of Rhodes on the airline's operations and stated their goal for basing 3 aircrafts at Diagoras during 2012 summer season. He, finally, indicated their will to hire locals for cabin crew positions.
Some more details are avialble here, in greek.

KALYMNOS ISLAND ADDED ON RHODES PSO ROUTES
Kalymnos island, the third biggest of the Dodecanese in terms of population, will at last have air connection to Rhodes as the route was approved and added to the currently ongoing tender for PSO routes.

The route was added in the already operative Rhodes-Kos-Leros-Astypalaia which will from 1 April become Rhodes-Kos-Kalymnos-Leros-Astypalaia. The tender asks for minimum 3 weekly flights during summer season and 2 during winter with the price for the Rhodes-Kalymnos leg being set at maximum 58E/one way.

NEW GREEK AIRLINE OPENING BASE AT DIAGORAS

Omega Airlines, a newly formed Greek carrier, will most probably base aircraft(s) at Diagoras Airport for 2012 summer season as it seeks cabin crew personnel indicating that the position refers to Rhodes.
We will update when more info regarding the airline becomes available.

Latest news #5

THOMAS COOK SECURED FINANCING

Thomas Cook managed to secure £200m re-financing from its bankers calming down markets, shareholders and business partners. The new loan will allow TC to proceed with structural changes in order to reach profitability.
It's worth mentioning that TC brought in Greece last summer around 2.000.000 visitors of whom 200.000 came in Rhodes, more than 10% of island's total arrivals.







RYANAIR TO OFFER RESERVED SEATING

Ryanair decided to offer permanently the so far tested reserve seating service in which under a fee of €10 (each way) passengers can either reserve a seat in the front two rows for quicker disembarkation or in the middle (rows 16 & 17) for greater legroom. The service will apply to all Ryanair's network from 10 January 2012 and will also include priority boarding at no extra charge.


OLYMPIC AIR REDUCES LOSS, PLANS FOR 2012

Olympic Air restructuring seems to work out as losses were narrowed down more than half compared to last year's. The airline will continue focusing on domestic and regional routes while it will try entering the charter market for next summer season in order to compensate losses caused by shutting down all but one of its major European routes.

Ryanair Routes - Summer 2012

Here is Ryan's forthcoming Rhodes schedule. 8 routes are bookable for the moment while Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Bremen, Liverpool and Cagliari appear on the booking engine but with no flights listed.
UPDATE: Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Liverpool routes added.
UPDATE: New route introduced from/to East Midlands. Bremen and Cagliari seem discontinued as they don't appear anymore on Ryan's booking engine.
UPDATE: New route introduced from/to Bournemouth.
UPDATE 22/3/12-14:00pm: Ryanair announced cutbacks on its Rhodes schedule. So far 3 routes are affected: Bologna, Milan and Rome, all losing a weekly flight from mid May till end of July when these flights are re-instated. We will update the whole schedule whenever it becomes finalized by the airline.
UPDATE 27/5/12: Schedule end dates have been updated.

BOLOGNA (BLQ) - RHODES (valid 26/3 – 27/9)*

Outward Flight: BLQ-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR1913	07:35	11:10	B738	Mo*	ends 14/5
FR1913	17:55	21:30	B738	Th
FR1913	06:30	10:05	B738	Sa	4/8-25/8
Return Flight: RHO-BLQ
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR1914	11:35	13:20	B738	Mo*	ends 14/5
FR1914	21:55	23:40	B738	Th
FR1914	10:30	12:15	B738	Sa	4/8-25/8

* Monday services are terminated as of 14 May 2012.

BRUSSELS/CHARLEROI (CRL) - RHODES (valid 25/3 – 30/9)*

Outward Flight: CRL-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR8577	07:25	11:50	B738	Tu
FR8577	08:40	13:05	B738	Su
Return Flight: RHO-CRL
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR8578	12:15	15:05	B738	Tu
FR8578	13:50	16:40	B738	Su

NEW: BOURNEMOUTH (BOH) - RHODES (valid 28/3 – 26/9)*

Outward Flight: BOH-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3351	07:05	13:05	B738	We
Return Flight: RHO-BOH
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3352	13:50	16:05	B738	We

DUSSELDORF/WEEZE (NRN) - RHODES (valid 25/3 – 30/9)*

Outward Flight: NRN-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR5777	12:30	17:05	B738	Su
Return Flight: RHO-NRN
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR5776	17:30	20:15	B738	Su

NEW: EAST MIDLANDS (EMA) - RHODES (valid 31/3 – 29/9)*

Outward Flight: NRN-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3852	15:20	21:20	B738	Sa
Return Flight: RHO-NRN
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3851	21:45	00:05	B738	Sa

FRANKFURT/HAHN (HHN) - RHODES (valid 25/3 – 30/9)*

Outward Flight: CRL-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR5899	10:10	14:25	B738	Th
FR5899	10:35	14:50	B738	Su
Return Flight: RHO-CRL
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR5898	14:50	17:00	B738	Th
FR5898	15:15	17:25	B738	Su

KAUNAS (KUN) - RHODES (valid 27/3 – 29/9)*

Outward Flight: KUN-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR2422	14:50	18:00	B738	Sa
Return Flight: RHO-KUN
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR2423	18:25	21:45	B738	Sa

LIVERPOOL (LPL) - RHODES (valid 26/3 – 1/10)*

Outward Flight: LPL-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9594	06:50	12:55	B738	Mo
FR9594	07:00	13:05	B738	Th
Return Flight: RHO-LPL
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9595	13:20	15:45	B738	Mo
FR9595	13:50	16:15	B738	Th

LONDON/STANSTED (STN) - RHODES (valid 27/3 – 29/9)*

Outward Flight: STN-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR8584	07:25	13:25	B738	Tu-Sa
FR8584	08:20	14:20	B738	Th*
FR8584	15:05	21:05	B738	Su	5/8-26/8
Return Flight: RHO-STN
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR8585	13:50	16:05	B738	Tu-Sa
FR8585	14:45	17:00	B738	Th*
FR8585	21:30	23:45	B738	Su	5/8-26/8

* Thursdays service stops on 7/6 and restarts for whole August (2/8-29/8).

MILAN/BERGAMO (BGY) - RHODES (valid 25/3 - 30/9)*

Outward Flight: BGY-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR4991	07:10	11:05	B738	Tu
FR4991	06:40	10:35	B738	We	1/8-29/8
FR4991	13:45	17:40	B738	Sa	4/8-25/8
FR4991	13:00	16:55	B738	Su
Return Flight: RHO-BGY
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR4992	11:30	13:25	B738	Tu
FR4992	11:00	12:55	B738	We	1/8-29/8
FR4992	18:05	20:00	B738	Sa	4/8-25/8
FR4992	17:40	19:35	B738	Su

PISA (PSA) - RHODES (valid 27/3 – 29/9)*

Outward Flight: PSA-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3589	09:35	13:20	B738	Tu-Sa
Return Flight: RHO-PSA
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR3588	13:45	15:30	B738	Tu-Sa

ROME CIAMPINO (CIA) - RHODES (valid 25/3 – 30/9)*

Outward Flight: CIA-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9692	15:30	18:50	B738	We	1/8-29/8
FR9692	10:15	13:35	B738	Su
Return Flight: RHO-CIA
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9693	19:15	20:40	B738	We	1/8-29/8
FR9693	14:00	15:25	B738	Su

STOCKHOLM/SKAVSTA (NYO) - RHODES (valid 27/3 – 29/9)*

Outward Flight: NYO-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9448	07:05	12:00	B738	Tu
FR9448	07:50	12:45	B738	Sa
Return Flight: RHO-NYO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
FR9449	12:25	15:20	B738	Tu
FR9449	13:10	16:05	B738	Sa

For more information and/or reservations, please visit Ryanair website.

* Based on Ryanair official website on 11 November 2011. Updated on 15/11/11, 4/12/11, 13/1/12, 7/2/12, 17/3/2012 and 27/5/2012.