Short Takes
December 21st 2017
Routes: Air China will increase Beijing-Dubai from five- to six-weekly A330-300 flights starting March 26. Read More » Delta will replace the B777-200LR with the A350-900 on the daily Shanghai-Los Angeles route from July 18. KLM will reduce frequency on the Amsterdam-Taipei-Manila B777-300ER route from five- to thrice-weekly beginning March 25. Mandarin Airlines will launch a twice-weekly Taoyuan-Fuzhou B737-800 service on March 26, complementing thrice-weekly Song Shan-Fuzhou flights. NokScoot will increase Don Mueang-Qingdao and Don Mueang-Shenyang from four- to five-weekly B777-200ER flights from January 4 and February 2, respectively. Peach Aviation will launch a daily Osaka-Kushiro A320 flight on August 1. Qantas Airways will launch a second daily Perth-Singapore B737-800 rotation beginning April 8. Qatar Airways will launch a four-weekly Doha-Thessaloniki A320 route on March 27 and a daily Doha-Cardiff B787-8 service staring May 1. Singapore Airlines will increase its four times a week Singapore-Cape Town service, via Johannesburg, to daily from March 26. THAI will replace the B747-400/B777-300ER with the B787-8 on the daily Suvarnabhumi-Denpasar route from January 4. Tigerair Taiwan will launch a twice-weekly Taipei-Asahikawa A320 route on March 27. Vanilla Air will terminate its daily Ho Chi Minh City-Taipei fifth freedom A320 route from March 25, less than a year after launching the service.
