Short Takes
March 31st 2017
Routes: AirAsia will increase frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Kaohsiung A320 route from thrice-weekly to daily beginning May 19. Air India will launch a thrice-weekly Delhi-Washington B777-200LR route on July 7. Read More » Asiana Airlines will replace the A330-300 with the B777-200ER on the five-weekly Incheon-Honolulu route from September 21. Beijing Capital Airlines has launched a weekly A320 service each from Haikou to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. Cathay Pacific Airways will add a fifth weekly seasonal A350 rotation to its new Hong Kong-Tel Aviv route from September 1 through to November 17. Emirates Airline will reduce frequency on the Dubai-Los Angeles route from double daily to daily from May 1 through to June 30. Garuda Indonesia will add a weekly Jakarta-Guilin A330-200 charter from June 25. Hainan Airlines will increase frequency on the Beijing-Manchester A330-300 route from four- to five-weekly from June. Jetstar Pacific has launched a thrice-weekly Da Nang-Hong Kong A320 route. KLM will gradually replace the B747-400 Combi with the B787-9 on the daily Amsterdam-Hong Kong route from April. Kunming Airlines will launch a thrice-weekly Kunming-Hat Yai B737-800 service on April 1, its first international route. Malindo Air will reduce frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Lahore B737 route from daily to five-weekly beginning April 3; it will cancel its daily Kuala Lumpur-Chiang Mai service from April 18 and it will reduce Kuala Lumpur-Kochi from eleven-weekly to daily from May 15. Vietnam Airlines will add a thrice-weekly Cam Ranh-Nanjing A321 route from July 11, followed by a thrice-weekly Cam Ranh-Wuxi A321 service launching the next day.
