Short Takes
August 11th 2017
Airlines: Emirates and flydubai have started an extensive partnership including integrated network collaboration with coordinated scheduling. Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a collaboration agreement with Alibaba Group and Ant Financial covering travel services, cloud computing and payments. Read More » EVA Airways will perform its final B747-400 passenger revenue flight on August 21 on the Hong Kong-Taipei route. Hong Kong Airlines has completed its acquisition of 51% of ground handling firm SATS HK. SriLankan Airlines CEO, Suren Ratwatte, hopes to return the airline to profitability by March 2018.
Routes: Cambodia Angkor Air will launch a twice-weekly Siem Reap-Hong Kong A320 service on October 29. China Southern Airlines will add a four-weekly Wuhan-Manila B737-800 route on November 6, and it will increase frequency on the Guangzhou-Adelaide A330-300 route from thrice- to five-weekly from December 10 through to February 26. Delta Air Lines will replace the B777 with its new A350-900 on the daily Atlanta-Seoul route starting March 24. Jet Airways will add a daily Delhi-Riyadh B737-800 flight from October 29. Jetstar will start a thrice-weekly Adelaide-Hobart A320 route beginning November 14. Jetstar Pacific has launched a twice-weekly Dong Hoi-Chiang Mai A320 flight. Lufthansa will replace the A340-600 with the A350-900 on the daily Hong Kong-Munich flight from September. Malaysia Airlines will increase frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Taipei B737-800 route from daily to eleven-weekly commencing October 29. Philippine Airlines (PAL) will replace the A340-300 with the B777-300ER on the Manila-Heathrow route beginning September 18. Thai Smile will add a daily Suvarnabhumi-Kaohsiung A320 flight on October 1.
