Short Takes
May 26th 2017
MRO: AJW has won a power-by-the-hour (PBH) five-year component support contract with JC (Cambodia) International Airlines for its new A320 fleet. Read More » The airline was established by China’s Ruili Airlines and launched revenue operations on March 17.
Routes: AirAsia will launch a four-weekly KLIA-Sihanoukville A320 route on August 9. AirAsia X will launch a daily Kuala Lumpur-Denpasar A330-300 service from July 15. AirAsia India has added frequencies from Bangalore; to Goa from three to four times a day, to Hyderabad from to twice- to thrice-daily and to Kochi from 20 to 27-weekly. Air Busan will increase frequency on the Daegu-Osaka A321 route from eleven-weekly to double daily starting June 8. Air India will launch a thrice-weekly Delhi-Stockholm B787-8 route on August 16. Air India Express has increased frequency on the Thiruvananthapuram-Muscat B737-800 route from five-weekly to daily and it will increase Kochi-Abu Dhabi from daily to eleven-weekly beginning June 21. Air Tahiti Nui will increase frequency on the Papeete-Narita A340-300 route from twice- to thrice-weekly from February 20 through to March 28. Batik Air will launch a double daily Denpasar-Perth A320 route on June 21. China Eastern Airlines will replace the A330-200 with the B777-300ER on the daily Pudong-Frankfurt service from September 5 through to October 28. Emirates Airline will be replacing the B777-300ER with the A380 on the Dubai-Birmingham route from October 29, resulting in double daily A380 service on the route. Lion Air has launched a daily Medan-KLIA B737-800 flight. Singapore Airlines will replace the B777-200ER with the A350-900 on one of its daily Singapore-Mumbai flights from July 1. THAI will replace the B777 with the A350 on the four-weekly Bangkok-Brussels route from August 1; the service will be increased to five-weekly starting October 29. United Airlines will replace the B747-400 with the B777-300ER on the daily San Francisco-Taipei route starting August 1.
