A one-day strike is planned at Lufthansa on February 12, 2026, which is expected to lead to widespread flight cancellations and delays across the group’s entire route network.
The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots’ union has announced a 24-hour protest from 00:01 to 23:59 local time. The strike will affect flights departing from German airports and operated by the main airline Lufthansa, as well as Lufthansa Cargo. The reason is a dispute over the terms of corporate pension plans for approximately 4,800 pilots.
At the same time, the UFO flight attendants’ union announced its own action, which, according to Reuters, concerns the regional carrier Lufthansa CityLine and is related to a labor dispute over restructuring and negotiations on a social package.
In a service message to its partners, Lufthansa indicated that it expects “extensive cancellations” and recommends that passengers check their flight status in advance. It also notes that flights operated by a number of the group’s airlines and partners – Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, SWISS, Air Dolomiti, Discover Airlines, Edelweiss, and Lufthansa City Airlines — should not be affected, and normal schedules are expected to resume on February 13.
Lufthansa also reminds passengers that if a domestic flight within Germany or a flight between Germany and Basel is canceled, tickets can be exchanged for Deutsche Bahn train tickets.
According to Serbian Economist, Ukrainian airline SkyUp Airlines, operating from Chisinau under the brand name of its partner carrier Vision Air, will launch direct seasonal flights on the Chisinau–Tivat (Montenegro) route in the summer season of 2026. This is stated in the airline’s announcement.
According to the published schedule, flights will start on June 9, 2026, and will be operated three times a week — on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays — until September 20, 2026, on Boeing 737-700 aircraft.
As noted by the industry portal Ex-Yu Aviation, SkyUp will compete directly with the Moldovan carrier FlyOne on the Chisinau–Tivat route, which also plans to operate three flights a week on this route during the summer season.
“Demand for travel to the Balkans is growing every year, as the region combines affordable prices, the sea, nature, and a variety of leisure activities. The launch of flights to Tivat and Tirana gives our passengers more opportunities for summer travel in the 2026 season. We continue to develop our route network from a convenient starting point – Chisinau – and offer quality service at a fair price,” said Daria Alekseenko, SkyUp’s director of scheduled flights.
On the day sales started, tickets for the new route were offered at a promotional fare of €17 one way, SkyUp emphasizes.
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SkyUp Airlines has announced the launch of ticket sales for the 2026 summer season and a significant expansion of its route network from Chisinau, which is becoming one of the key aviation hubs for Ukrainian passengers.
According to the carrier’s press service, the schedule includes new flights to Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, France, Italy, and Georgia.
Among the destinations are:
Chisinau – Madrid (from April 16, 2026, twice a week);
Chisinau – Malaga (from May 2, up to twice a week);
Chisinau – Tenerife (from May 30, once a week);
Chisinau – Paris (CDG) (from April 12, up to twice a week);
Chisinau – Basel (from May 15, twice a week);
Chisinau – Dublin (from December 18, 2025, up to twice a week);
Chisinau – Corfu, Rhodes, Zakynthos (from the end of May, 1–2 flights a week);
Chisinau – Rimini (from May 30, up to twice a week);
Chisinau – Tbilisi (from November 1, 2025, up to 4 times a week).
SkyUp reminded that since April 2025, it has been operating regular flights from Chisinau to a number of popular cities in France, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Sweden.
The airline, which has been operating for more than six years, received a Maltese license in 2023, allowing it to operate regular flights within European airspace.
A Boeing 737-800SF from the fleet of Supernova Airlines of the NOVA Group (Nova Poshta) has completed its first flight between European airports, the press service of the NOVA Group reports.
“On September 18, 2024, Supernova Airlines made the first flight on its own Boeing 737-800SF aircraft flying the flag of Ukraine, with Ukrainian registration marks UR-NPA. This was a certification flight, one of the final steps in the process of introducing the Boeing 737-800SF type to Supernova’s operator certificate by the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine,” the NOVA press service said.
The airline plans to start regular commercial operation of the aircraft in the winter season of 2024-2025.
Earlier, a Boeing 737-800 from Supernova’s fleet operated a maintenance flight from Guangzhou (China) to Vilnius (Lithuania) with a technical stop at Tashkent Airport.
The company clarified that the use of air transportation saves up to 36 hours on the delivery of parcels from (or to) Riga compared to trucks. It was also reported that Supernova Airlines plans to form a fleet in the future using cargo versions of modern aircraft manufactured by Boeing or Airbus.
Supernova Airlines has received a Ukrainian operator’s certificate, which allows it to start cargo flights on January 6, 2023.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) presents its winter flight schedule.
As the press service of UIA reported on Wednesday, in particular, since the change of the schedule on October 31, UIA will continue operating domestic flights together with a partner airline to Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Ivano-Frankovsk, as well as its own regular flights to Odesa.
The airline will operate international flights on 26 routes. From Kyiv, in particular, UIA will fly to Amsterdam, London, Paris, Vilnius, Berlin, Baku, Chisinau, Rome, Milan, Larnaca, Athens, Geneva, Yerevan, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Dubai, Delhi, Cairo, Munich, Tbilisi, Istanbul and Prague. From Odesa it will fly to Istanbul and Tel Aviv. The company also plans to fly to Tel Aviv from Kharkiv and Dnipro.
In addition, in January 2022, UIA intends to increase the frequency of flights from Kyiv to Munich (additional flights on January 2, January 9 and January 16), Geneva (additional flights on January 2, January 3 and January 9) and Prague (additional flights from December 27 to December 30 and from January 3 to January 8).
Qatar Airways, the national airline of Qatar, will launch flights from Doha to Odessa on December 9, which has become the second in Ukraine after Boryspil, where Qatari airlines will start operating.
According to the Odessa international airport’s Facebook page, the flights will be operated three times a week, namely on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Departure from Doha to Odessa is scheduled for 08.30, arrival will be at 12.45. Departure from Odessa will be at 16.45, arrival in Doha at 22.50.
