Short Takes
August 26th 2016
Airlines: AirAsia X has reported a second-quarter net profit of just over one million ringgit ($248,000), reversing a 133 million ringgit loss in the year-ago quarter. Read More » Air Mauritius has posted a first-quarter net income of two million Euros ($2.6 million), turning around a 9.8 million loss in the year-ago period. The carrier said this was its best first quarter performance in the last decade. Lee Lik Hsin, CEO of Budget Aviation Holdings – parent of Tigerair Singapore and Scoot – has said a merger between the two low-cost units may be considered in the long run.
MRO: Lufthansa Technik and Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) have expanded their partnership by entering into a new long-term agreement for component services for the carrier’s incoming A350 fleet, including maintenance, reliability monitoring, reliability enhancement programs, as well as logistic services.
Routes: All Nippon Airways (ANA) will replace the B767-300ER with the B787-8 on the daily Narita-Dalian flight from October 30. Cambodia Angkor Air will launch a five-weekly Siem Reap-Hanoi A320 route on October 30. China Eastern Airlines will add a thrice-weekly Kunming-Qingdao-San Francisco A330-200 rotation commencing September 29. China Southern Airlines has cancelled its twice-weekly Shenzhen-Ibaraki A320 route. Etihad Airways will cancel its Almaty and Larnaca services from October 28. Hainan Airlines will replace the B787-8 with the larger -9 on its Shanghai-Seattle and Beijing-Toronto flights from October 30. Mandarin Airlines will reduce frequency on the Taichung-Hanoi E190 route from three to twice weekly starting on October 30. Spring Airlines will add a three times weekly Shenyang-Jeju A320 flight beginning September 2. Uzbekistan Airways has applied for twice-weekly Tashkent-Riga-JFK traffic rights from March 30, deploying its new B787.
