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Cambridge International Airport, in the United Kingdom, will close by 2030 at the latest, the owner of the airport, Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group, has said in a statement.

Located three kilometres east of the centre of the English university city of Cambridge, the 1,965 metre-long asphalt runway 05/23 and surrounding land will transform into a construction site installing around 12,000 homes.

Marshall, which specialises in the maintenance of Lockheed C-130 military transport aircraft, has said it is considering moving its operations to one of three possible alternative locations near the villages of Cranfield, Duxford, and Wyton.

At present, Sun-Air operating under a British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) franchise agreement, offers scheduled flights from Cambridge to each of Gothenburg Landvetter (5x weekly) and Manchester Int'l (4x weekly) that primarily cater to demand from its partner, Cambridge-based bio-pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. In addition, the business and private charter carrier ExecuJet (United Kingdom) (LCY, Cambridge) maintains a base there.

Hahn Air (HR, Frankfurt Int'l) has announced it signed a partnership with Airbus SE (Toulouse Blagnac) wherein it will handle the reservations for the manufacturer's corporate shuttles between various sites in Europe, including distribution in the Amadeus IT Group GDS.

"Hahn Air provides Airbus with a complete distribution and handling package, including displaying the inventory in the GDS, booking and ticketing processes, reporting and passenger handling at all relevant airports," the German company said.

Airbus currently has three corporate shuttles between its European sites, namely:

• between Hamburg Finkenwerder and Toulouse Blagnac, operated by Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) with A320 and A321 aircraft;
• between Chester Hawarden and Toulouse via Bristol Int'l, operated by Loganair (LM, Glasgow Int'l) with E145 aircraft;
• between Augsburg and Marseilles, operated by Sun-Air (EZ, Billund) with Do328-300 aircraft.

Tickets for all these flights are only available to Airbus staff.

Hahn Air is a German scheduled and business charter specialist,...

OneJet (J1, Pittsburgh Int'l) will start deploying two Do328-300JETs operated by its newly acquired subsidiary Ultimate Jetcharters (UE, Akron/Canton) effective June 11, ch-aviation schedule analysis has revealed.

Both regional jets will operate the Hartford Bradley-Pittsburgh Int'l-Indianapolis Int'l route, with one of them based out of Indianapolis and the other out of Hartford Bradley. The 10x weekly service will double OneJet's frequency on the route.

OneJet is a virtual carrier focusing on providing point-to-point scheduled services targeted at business passengers from secondary cities in the eastern part of the United States. The carrier's flights are currently operated by Contour Aviation (LF, Smyrna) using Hawker 400, E135 and E145 equipment.

OneJet announced on May 1 that it would be taking over Ultimate Jetcharters for an undisclosed sum. It is the first acquisition in the company's history.

According to the ch-aviation fleets module, Ultimate Jetcharters currently operates ten Do328-300s, which makes it the world's second-largest operator of the type, behind Sun-Air (EZ, Billund...