Short Takes
March 23rd 2018
Routes: Air Seoul will terminate its daily Incheon-Macau A321 flights starting March 24. Read More » China Southern Airlines will add a twice-weekly Urumqi-Lahore B737-800 route on June 21. Etihad Airways will replace the A330-200 with the B787-9 on the daily Abu Dhabi-Hong Kong service from April 16. EVA Air will launch a daily Taipei-Chiang Mai A321 route on July 1. Garuda Indonesia will convert its thrice-weekly Denpasar-Bangkok-Mumbai B737-800 triangular route to twice-weekly Denpasar-Mumbai A330-200 nonstop flights beginning April 23; frequency will be increased to thrice-weekly operations from June 2. Hong Kong Airlines plans to launch thrice-weekly Hong Kong-Moscow Vnukovo A330-300 flights starting May 18. Indonesia AirAsia X will terminate its daily Jakarta-Mumbai A330-300 route from April 29. Jeju Air will start a daily Incheon-Yantai B737-800 route on April 5. Lanmei Airlines will launch thrice-weekly Siem Reap-Shijiazhuang A319/A321 flights from March 26. Qatar Airways will add a fourth daily Doha-Dhaka rotation, operated by an A330-200, from August 1. SCOOT will add a thrice-weekly Singapore-Nanchang A320 service on July 2. Spring Airlines will launch three new A320 routes to Phuket on March 25: Chengdu-Phuket (daily); Jieyang-Phuket (daily) and Guangzhou-Phuket (thrice-weekly). Thai Lion Air will add a six-weekly Utapao-Chiang Mai B737-900ER route on March 25 and it will launch a thrice-weekly Don Mueang-Kathmandu B737-800 service on May 16; from May 1, Thai Lion will increase Don Mueang-Mumbai from thrice-weekly to daily -800 operations. Vanilla Air will terminate its twice-daily Narita-Kansai A320 flights from June 15.
Technology & Distribution: Philippine Airlines (PAL) will adopt the full Amadeus Altéa Suite, a complete Passenger Service System that aims to streamline and improve all core passenger processes for PAL, including reservation, inventory, departure control, and flight management. Virgin Australia is stepping up its digital modernisation efforts with the addition of Sabre’s Digital Experience, the technology provider’s next generation e-commerce platform.
