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Snow-flights to Turin Caselle
Charter traffic forecast for the coming winter season at Turin/Caselle airport is stable as far as concerned with routeing and volume (close to 170.000 passengers in the 1998/1999 winter season). The traditional incoming tourist activity is generated by presence of many important skiing resorts in the area surrounding Turin, the town which will host the Winter Olympic Games in 2006.
The snow-flight chains that will be operative from the end of December 1999 to early April 2000, with traffic peaks on Saturdays and Sundays, and will originate from Great Britain (Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, East Midlands, Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and London/Stansted); Ireland (Dublin); Denmark (Copenaghen); Sweden (Göteborg and Malmö); Finland (Helsinki) and Norway (Oslo).
The main carriers expected to operate the charter 1999/2000 snow-flights from UK and Ireland to Turin are Monarch Airlines, British Airways, Caledonian Airways (JMC Airlines), Air 2000, Flying Colours (JMC Airlines), Airtours, Cityflyer Express, Britannia Airways, Europe Air Charter, Ryanair and British Midland. The Scandinavian airlines engaged will be Braathens, Finnair, Maersk Air and SAS.
Compared with season 1998/1999, two more new airlines (Cityflyer Express and Flying Colours) are expected to take part in this activity. Transaer and Leisure International Airways will no longer take part in the Turin winter charter schedule, the latter having been incorporated in Air 2000 at the end of 1998.
At the moment, planned outgoing charter activity from Turin, during winter 1999/2000, comprises some flights to Morocco, Spain and Tunisia but looses regular frequencies to Palma de Mallorca by Viva Air, which ceased operations March 1999. A new chain of Turin-Tel Aviv charter flights will be operated by Israir.
In the pictures: Viva Air Boeing 737-36E EC-FLG at Turin/Caselle in January 1999; the Spanish airline, based in Palma de Mallorca, ceased operations in March same year. Leisure International Airways Airbus A 320-212 G-UKLL at Turin/Caselle in January 1999; the British charter airline, based at London/Gatwick, was integrated into Air 2000 in December 1998.
(Aeromedia, December 1999)