Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Qantas will soon offer customers direct access to Taiwan with the launch of a new codeshare agreement with China Airlines. From 15 October, customers will be able to travel on codeshare services operated by China Airlines from Sydney and Brisbane to Taipei, with up to ten return services per … Read more
Cathay Pacific Airways announced that it will launch a new four-times-weekly non-stop service from Hong Kong to Boston on 2 May 2015, subject to government approval. The new service will provide the first direct link between New England and Hong Kong. Boston will become Cathay Pacific’s sixth gateway in the United States, and eighth in … Read more
Malaysia’s AirAsia dismissed a media report that it is weighing a bid for Japan’s embattled Skymark Airlines, saying it is focused on a budget airline it is setting up with Japanese partners. The Nikkei business daily said AirAsia, the region’s most aggressive budget airline, is in talks with financial institutions on a possible tender offer … Read more
Thai Airways said on Thursday it expects to return to profit earlier than expected in the fourth quarter and would cut 1,500 jobs this year as part of a restructuring plan at the troubled national carrier. The loss-making carrier also said it would shed more than a quarter of its full-time employees by 2018, the … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Stobart Air, experienced its best month on record in July since the franchise began in March 2010. The record passenger numbers beats the previous record set only last month as passenger numbers published today show. The airline carried 141,737 passengers in July, a 22% … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Today, the Malaysia Airlines management met with representatives of its employee unions and other associations as the first step to inform and engage employees on the future restructuring of Malaysia Airlines. As noted by the Prime Minister last week, this is going to be a long process which will require … Read more
Cathay Pacific today announced that it will enhance its service to Sri Lanka by operating four non-stop flights a week to Colombo from 27 October 2014. The direct flights will replace the flights that currently stop in Singapore and will make Cathay Pacific the only airline to operate direct services between Hong Kong and Colombo. … Read more
The national carrier of Azerbaijan – “AZAL – Azerbaijan Airlines” announced the start of scheduled flights from Baku to New York commencing the 24th September 2014. Flights to John Kennedy Airport (JFK) of New York City will run weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays with departure from Baku at 06.00 and arriving to the biggest city … Read more
Cebu Pacific Air increased its flight frequencies between Manila and Cauayan recently, operating a total of four weekly flights. The additional flight schedule is every Saturday, with the flight departing Manila at 9:35am and the return flight departing Cauayan at 11:30am. Previously, Cebu Pacific Air flew between Cauayan and Manila every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On these … Read more
The only Japanese airline to order the double-decker model initially signed a firm contract for four A380s in 2011, and later increased the order with two more. Skymark was due to fly its first A380 around the end of this year, but delivery was pushed back by up to six months because of problems fitting out the … Read more