Short Takes
April 7th 2017
Routes: AirAsia will launch a daily Kuching-Pontianak A320 route on June 5 and it will increase frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Danang A320 route from daily to ten-weekly commencing June 6. Read More » Cathay Pacific Airways will increase frequency on the Hong Kong-Manchester route from five-weekly to daily starting December 3, using its A350s. China Eastern Airlines will resume thrice-weekly Pudong-Male A330-200 operations from July 2. Himalaya Airlines will launch a daily Kathmandu-Dubai Al Maktoum A320 route on April 28. IndiGo Airlines will launch a daily A320 service from Delhi and Mumbai each to Doha starting May 5. Philippines AirAsia will launch a four-weekly Manila-Guangzhou A320 route on April 27. Scoot will resume thrice-weekly Singapore-Hong Kong B787-8 operations from May 15. SriLankan will launch a four-weekly Colombo-Hong Kong A321 nonstop service from July 15, replacing its current triangular service via Bangkok. From the same date, it will replace the A320 with the A330-200 on its daily Colombo-Jakarta rotation. T’Way Airlines has launched a six-weekly Daegu-Okinawa and a six-weekly Daegu-Danang B737-800 route.
