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taking off after sunrise and before sunset, in respect to the many Muslim passengers completing Umrah on
these flights. #887.CAT14
Thai Airways and Singapore’s Tiger Airways are set to form a new low cost carrier to be called
Thai Tiger and due to start flying out of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport early in 2011. While
destinations are yet to be announced, the short-haul, point-to-point routes will be operated using Airbus
A320 aircraft, flying within a five hour radius. Tony Davis, Tiger Airways' CEO did say, however, that
Bangkok is a key gateway to the whole of South East Asia, and that spreading its „paw-print‟ would mean
“greater economies of scale” for the airline. “From its base at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thai Tiger will be well
positioned to also serve destinations in North Asia and the Indian sub-continent,” he said. Thai Airways will
own 51% of the company, with Tiger Airways owning the remaining 49%. Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai
Airway's President, said: “With its disciplined approach to the low-cost model, Tiger Airways has proven that
it has the right approach to competing effectively in the growing low-fare travel market in Asia.” Due to
liberalization policies, he expects to see growth in the low-cost carrier market in Asia. #887.CAT15
In July 2010, Thai Airways began a ‘dish of the month’ promotion that will be held for two days
in subsequent months. On its domestic routes, the airline served Tom Yum Koong Fried Rice on
international and domestic Business Class in July. The meal was teamed with a mixed vegetable salad on
northern and southern routes and two different cakes. International routes on those days featured Chinesestyle
stir-fried tiger prawns in Royal Class and Hong Kong style sweet and sour stir fried pork in Economy
Class. The airline says the feature is a gesture of appreciation to its customers as it continues with its 50th
anniversary celebration. #887.CAT16
Etihad Airways has been handed security approval to start U.S. flights from the new Terminal 3
at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Passengers flying to Chicago and New York will now checkin
and board from T3. Premium customers flying to the U.S.A. can now access Etihad‟s First and Business
class check-in and lounges in T3. In addition to the U.S. destinations, flights to Cochin, Islamabad, Karachi,
Lahore, and Peshawar now operate from Terminal 3, switching from Terminal 1. Flights to Colombo and
Moscow will move to T1, the airline added. -- T3 opened in January 2009, taking the airport to an annual
capacity of 12 million passengers. It is expected that passenger numbers will reach this level in 2011. Peter
Baumgartner, Etihad Airways‟ Chief Commercial Officer, said: “We are pleased to now be able to offer our
U.S.-bound customers the convenience and luxury of Terminal 3.” #887.CAT17
Waste management
At London-Stansted Airport, over 60 tonnes of waste has been diverted from landfill in the past
three months, thanks to the latest re-cycling initiative that is keeping the airport on-track to
achieve its target of zero waste to landfill by 2015. “Developing new re-cycling methods is a key
priority for my team and the introduction of our food composting initiative, where catering companies
separate food waste into biodegradable bags, has seen great results in just the first three months,” said Dr
Andy Jefferson, Head of Environment at Stansted Airport. “Just over ten years ago, 93.5% of waste at
Stansted went directly to landfill. Today, over 50% of waste is re-cycled and our ambition is to be sending
zero waste to landfill by 2015. The catering companies at Stansted grabbed the cost-saving benefits
associated with separating food waste for composting with both hands, engaged staff and through their
focus and commitment over 60 tonnes of food waste was diverted from landfill between May and July this
year. In 2009, we worked with Cranfield University to review our waste collection methods and implement
more efficient, streamline collection services across the airport site. We‟re already reaping the benefits of
that work with over 1300 tonnes of waste re-cycled or composted in the first half of this year, that's nearly
52% of total airport waste collected. We will continue to work with businesses across the site that produce
high levels of waste and support them to develop plans to not just reduce waste but to increase recycling.
Our motto is „Reduce and Reuse‟ and we will do all we can to achieve the challenging targets that we‟ve set
ourselves as a business to send zero waste to landfill by 2015.” #887.CAT18
Waste management is an industry-wide problem and there are many approaches to the problem. With its
new system of sending some 2500 tonnes of inbound waste a year to a new energy-from-waste
facility a few miles from London-Heathrow, Alpha has become the first caterer at the airport to
completely eliminate the use of landfill. As airline waste tends to be too wet for incineration, some of
the wet waste is diverted out of the stream by Alpha staff and a valve was installed at the bottom of the
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