Short Takes
January 19th 2018
Routes: Bangkok Airways has delayed its second daily Bangkok-Vientiane A319 launch from February 1 to March 25. Read More » Cambodia Angkor Air will launch a thrice-weekly Siem Reap-Hefei A320 scheduled charter route on February 14. China Eastern Airlines will add a Urumqi-Hefei-Krabi A320 triangular route from January 26. Emirates Airline will resume five-weekly Dubai-Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen B777-300ER flights from June; it last served the route in July 2016. Finnair plans to increase frequency on the Helsinki-Hong Kong A350-900 route from ten- to twelve-weekly starting December 7. Korean Air will deploy its first CS300 on up to four daily Incheon-Ulsan rotations starting January 20. Lufthansa will replace the A340-600 with the A380 on the daily Munich-Hong Kong route from March 25 and the airline will replace the A340-600 with the A350-900 on the six-weekly Munich-Incheon rotation starting from the same date. Malindo Air will increase frequency on the Kuala Lumpur-Lahore B737-900ER route from five-weekly to daily beginning March 25. Mandarin Airlines will increase Taichung-Hanoi from thrice- to five-weekly E190 flights from March 25. Philippine Airlines will terminate its four-weekly Cebu-Singapore A321 route starting March 25. Qatar Airways will add a sixth daily Doha-Bangkok rotation on March 25, operated by a B787-8. Royal Brunei plans to start a Brunei-Hangzhou A320 route in February or March. Thai AirAsia will launch a thrice-weekly Don Mueang-Johor Bahru A320 route on February 10, complementing AirAsia’s existing four-weekly operation. Tigerair Taiwan will launch a twice-weekly Taoyuan-Ibaraki A320 service on March 26, followed by a twice-weekly Taoyuan-Iwate A320 route from March 28. T’Way Airlines will add a daily Incheon-Nagoya B737-800 route commencing March 16. Vistara will launch a daily Chennai-Port Blair A320 route on March 1.
