EGYPTAIR W10 Aircraft swap to Bangkok/Guangzhou/Khartoum

As per 24SEP10 GDS timetable display, EGYPTAIR further adjusted planned aircraft changes in Winter 2010 season on Bangkok, Guangzhou (Airbus A330-200/Boeing 777 adjustments) and Khartoum (New Airbus A330-300 service) route.

Details:

Cairo – Bangkok 3 weekly
Planned Airbus A330-200 replacing 777 on certain periods in Winter 2010, shelved

Cairo – Bangkok – Guangzhou 4 weekly
Planned Airbus A330-200 replacing 777 on certain periods in Winter 2010 is to go ahead:
15DEC10 – 25DEC10
05FEB11 – 23FEB11

Cairo – Khartoum NEW Airbus A330-300 aircraft enter service eff 01JAN11, on:
MS853/854 Day x2

What's your opinion!? : About OnAir in-flight communication?

People who visit this blog regularly probably know that EgyptAir has introduced OnAir systems in their new Airbus A330-300's. OnAir is a in-flight communication system in an airplane and when it's installed passengers can connect to Wi-fi Internet and they can make and receive phone calls on their mobile phone. More and More airlines are introducing this "OnAir" system.

Many people have diffrent opinions about this. Is it a good thing that people on their way in an airplane can talk loud on their mobile phones? or Is it very annoying for the other passengers?

So!.... What is your opinion!? Leave a comment behind with your thoughts about this OnAir system.

Vodafone launches in-flight roaming service

Vodafone Egypt launched an in-flight roaming service aboard around 100 aircraft, available aboard EgyptAir where it is provided in partnership with OnAir, the telecom operator said in a statement.

Vodafone customers can make and receive calls, send and receive SMS, and access the internet on the aircraft during flight as they would on the ground. The service is safe and does not affect the navigation instruments, the statement read.

Vodafone Egypt has partnered with in-flight mobile phone services providers: the first is AeroMobile, operating on Emirates and Malaysia Airlines. Their services are currently available on 79 aircraft traveling to over 200 destinations around the world, including the popular Cairo to Dubai route.

The AeroMobile service is also launching later in the year with Air New Zealand and V Australia. In 2011 the service will also be available onboard Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific Airways

The second company OnAir is the world's only provider of both GSM services and WiFi based internet WiFi offering voice, e-mail, text services and internet access services on Egypt Air, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Royal Jordanian, Oman Air and Qatar Airways, in addition to Wataniya (Kuwait) Airways, TAP Portugal and British Airways. OnAir is also due to launch its services on Emirates, Air Asia, Libyan Airlines, and TAM.

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EGYPTAIR further changes to Dubai operation in Winter 2010

As per 23SEP10 GDS timetable display, EGYPTAIR plans to further boost capacity on Cairo – Dubai service in Winter 2010 season. By January 2011, all 2 Daily service operates with Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

Latest operating aircraft change to Dubai in W10 as follows:

MS910/911
31OCT10 – 31DEC10 333 Day x15 738 Day 15
01JAN11 - 77W Daily

MS911 departs DXB following day

MS912/913 Daily
31OCT10 – 14DEC10 A330-200
15DEC10 – 31DEC10 777-200ER
01JAN11 - 777-300ER

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LOT Polish Airlines launch Egypt service from Nov 2010

LOT Polish Airlines from 03NOV10 is starting 3 weekly Warsaw – Cairo service on board Boeing 737-400 aircraft.

Schedule below:

LO115 WAW2230 – 0320+1CAI 734 136
LO116 CAI0410 – 0720WAW 734 247

EGYPTAIR W10 Operation Changes as of 13SEP10

As per 13SEP10 GDS timetable display, EGYPTAIR’s latest changes to planned 2010/11 Winter season operation, as follows. This includes a new destination to Lusaka in Zambia, from January 2011.

Service to Almaty in Kazakhstan, is canceled.

Details:

Almaty
2 weekly Cairo – Almaty service canceled from 02NOV10. It is continuing service to Almaty through existing codeshare service with Turkish Airlines

Bangkok/Guangzhou
Airbus A330-200 replace Boeing 777-200ER on following periods:
11DEC10 – 25DEC10
05FEB11 – 23FEB11

Lusaka New 4 weekly service eff 16JAN11.
Service operates as Cairo – Dar es Salaam – Lusaka, which affects operational schedule on DAR to CAI sector

till 15JAN11
MS841 CAI2210 – 0500+1DAR 320 x135
MS842 DAR0600 – 1045CAI 320 x246

eff 16JAN11
MS841 CAI2230 – 0520+1DAR0620+1 – 0750+1LUN 320 x135
MS842 LUN2150 – 0120+1DAR0215+1 – 0700+1CAI 320 x246

Departure from DAR to CAI is Day x357

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Air Arabia Maroc from Casablanca – Alexandria Borg el Arab service with Airbus A320 effective 04OCT10. Service operates 3 times a week, increasing to 4 from 31OCT10.

Schedule below:

till 30OCT10
3O503 CMN1620 – 2255HBE 320 246
3O504 HBE2340 – 0255+1CMN 320 246

eff 01NOV10
3O2505 CMN1500 – 2140HBE 320 x357
3O2506 HBE2225 – 0200+1CMN 320 x357

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OnAir behind the EgyptAir connectivity

OnAir has been named as the connectivity provider for EgyptAir's new Airbus A330-300 aircraft which began operations today

It launched full Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir inflight passenger communications services on the first of EgyptAir's fleet of twin-aisle Airbus 330-300 aircraft – with more scheduled to be equipped in coming months. The aircraft operates to London.

EgyptAir's customers will be able to stay connected inflight using their own mobile phones or smartphones. Customers will also be able to access the Internet just as they do on the ground by connecting their laptops wirelessly.

In providing both GSM/GPRS as well as Wi-Fi Internet, OnAir enables EgyptAir's customers to have available to them the broadest range of inflight connectivity options available anywhere in the world today, enabling them for example to surf the Internet, check the weather forecast at destination, buy theatre tickets, or make arrangements for transport from their airport to their place of residence – all of this as well as checking in with colleagues or putting in a goodnight call to a loved one.

EgyptAir Airlines Chairman and CEO, Captain Alaa Ashour, said, “Today, we are providing EgyptAir's customers with the latest services and greater choices. OnAir inflight connectivity helps us further differentiate our offering, and enables our customers not only to stay in touch but to access online services as they travel.”

Ian Dawkins, Chief Executive Officer of OnAirsaid: " We’re delighted to be helping provide EgyptAir's customers from today with a full range of connectivity services as they travel – services that travellers are increasingly expecting to have at their disposal. Within 2 to 3 years, we’re convinced that all airlines will demand this level of onboard mobile communications,”
Mobile OnAir uses the industry’s most advanced and extensive infrastructure for mobile communications, along with Inmarsat SwiftBroadband, high capacity services from Inmarsat 4th generation satellites.

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