| Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana) has terminated its Ljubljana-Oslo Gardermoen route and given up plans to add Sofia to its network in March. It will also not resume its seasonal Ljubljana-Birmingham route this year. Its employees have acquired a 23% stake in the carrier. Aer Arann (RE/Dublin) has pulled out of its Galway-Waterford-Amsterdam route. It is not planning to resume its summer operations with a BAe 146-200 to the Mediterranean this year. Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) has leased two new A320-200s that were not taken up by Comoro Islands Airline (Moroni) and will resume twice daily A320-200 service between Shannon and London Heathrow on March 29. It has announced plans to give up its Belfast Intl-Amsterdam route on March 27. In other news, it has entered into a joint-venture with codeshare partner United Airlines (UA/Chicago) to launch new transatlantic services from other EU countries. The two carriers are planning to start a first joint operation in spring 2010 with Aer Lingus operating a daily A330 service linking Madrid and Washington Dulles. Aerfly (Perugia) is a new start-up planning to start operations with a single Saab 340 offering services linking Perugia and Naples. Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) is planning to submit an offer for the 92% stake in CSA Czech Airlines (OK/Prague) that the Czech government will put up for sale this year. It has ordered six additional A321-200s and is planning to withdraw all of its remaining Tu-154Ms and Il-96-300s from scheduled services by the end of October 2009. It will then only operate A320/A330 family and B767-300 aircraft. Aeroflot has announced new routes from its Moscow Sheremetyevo hub:
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Guangzhou: 3x weekly B767-300ER service starting on June 3
Moscow Sheremetyevo-Ovda: weekly A320-200 service has started on January 15
Aeroflot will give up its routes from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Mumbai and Toronto Pearson on March 28 and temporarily suspend its Moscow Sheremetyevo-Bangkok Suvarnabhumi route between May 17 and July 31. It has already temporarily suspended its services from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Magadan (operating via Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk) until Magadan airport is able to accommodate A320 aircraft. It had previously operated Tu-154Ms on these routes until February 1 when Aeroflot decided to only use A320-200/A321-200 aircraft on its routes from Sheremetyevo to Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk.
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