Short Takes
February 2nd 2018
Routes: Air India has added a daily Delhi-Singapore A321 service, complementing its existing daily B787-8 flights on the route. Read More » Alitalia will cancel its four-weekly Rome-Beijing A330-200 route starting March 25. Cathay Pacific Airways will operate twice-weekly Hong Kong-Komatsu scheduled A330-300 charters from April 2 through to June 29, bookable exclusively through tour operators. Taiwan’s China Airlines will replace the B747-400 with the B777-300ER on the daily Taipei-Sapporo route from April 11. Emirates Airline will add a daily Dubai-Newark B777-300ER route beginning June 1, complementing its existing daily Dubai-Athens-Newark -300 ER operations. Jet Airways will add a second daily Bengaluru-Singapore B737-800 flight starting March 25. Peach Aviation will start daily Okinawa-Kaohsiung A320 flights on April 26. Qatar Airways has launched daily Doha-U-Tapao B787-8 flights; the airline will increase Doha-Windhoek B787-8 service from five-weekly to daily from July 3 through to August 30. Sichuan Airlines has applied to extend its thrice-weekly Chengdu-Prague A330 route to Zurich from March 26. Thai AirAsia X will add a third daily Don Mueang-Narita A330-300 rotation starting March 25. Thai Airways International (THAI) will terminate its four-weekly Suvarnabhumi-Tehran B777-200ER route from March 1 and it will replace the B777-300ER with the B787-8 on the four-weekly Suvarnabhumi-Vienna rotation from April 21. Wings Air, the Lion Group subsidiary, has launched daily Pontianak-Kuching ATR72 flights. Beginning March 25, Xiamen Airlines will launch daily B737-800 flights from Xiamen to Phuket; Hangzhou to Bangkok; and Fuzhou to Phuket.
