Aviation

Air Serbia will include eight new destinations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East this spring.

Daily flights to the Bulgarian coastal town of Varna begin on May 1st, while departures to Dubrovnik will be launched on May 15th, operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

As of Friday, April 4, Davor Miseljic, member of the main board of the Serbia's national carrier Air Serbia, was no longer a Canadian national but a Serbian national. This is according to the website of the Serbian business registry.

A Chinese rescue ship has picked up a pulse signal in the southern Indian Ocean, which may be related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

The signal has a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, which is the same as those emitted by flight recorders, the BBC reports. However, it is yet to be determined if there is a link to the missing airplane.

The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) has suspended all flights to and above Crimea, “until further notice”. 

According to ITAR-TASS, the organization explained its decision by the fact that the airspace over Crimea, is no longer controlled by Ukrainian air traffic controllers.

Around 900 flights were cancelled during the first day of German airline Lufthansa's strike.

The strike, which will last 3 days, could affect another 3,000 flights and 425,000 passengers, the BBC reports.

Lufthansa is re-booking passengers to other airlines or train services in order to ease the disruption.

The pilots' strike of the German airline Lufthansa will also affect the flights to and from Bulgaria. 

A special section on the Lufthansa website shows, that flights from Sofia to Munich and Frankfurt from April 2 to April 4, included, as well as the early morning flight to Munich, are cancelled. Same applies to the flights from Munich and Frankfurt to Sofia, April 2-4.

The low cost airline Wizz Air will start flights between Sofia and Malta in June. 

The flights will be on Mondays and Fridays and tickets are already on sale. 

Wizz Air is also starting flights between Sofia and Tel Aviv in May. 

According to the company, last year it transported 900 000 passengers to and from Bulgaria.

By Alexandra Kassimi

Greece’s largest carrier by passengers, Aegean Airlines is strengthening its presence in the domestic and international markets this year while aiming at the creation of an extra 2,400 jobs by the start of the summer season.

Qatar Airways Ltd Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said on Wednesday he’s pursuing acquisitions after reviving an investment strategy that saw the company offered stakes in carriers including Greece’s Olympic Air.

Hundreds of Lufthansa flights will be canceled because of a planned strike at German airports, which begins on Thursday night.

According to a press statement published on Wednesday, the German airline would be grounding 600 flights, the DW reports.