Short Takes
June 1st 2018
Routes: Cathay Pacific Airways is replacing the A330-300 with the B777-300ER on the daily Hong Kong-Chennai rotation starting December 1. Read More » Condor will launch a thrice-weekly Frankfurt-Kuala Lumpur B767-300ER route on November 1 (previously announced as an A330 service from November 5). Emirates Airline will replace the B777-300ER with the A380 on one of its double daily Dubai-Hamburg rotations from October 28. Korean Air will operate a thrice-weekly Incheon-Zagreb A330-300 seasonal service from September 1 through to October 27. Lucky Air will launch four-weekly Kunming-Chiang Mai B737-800 flights beginning July 1. PAL Express has added a twice-weekly Manila-Haikou A320 scheduled charter route. Qatar Airways will reduce Doha-Incheon from eight-weekly to daily B777-300ER flights from October 28. Shenzhen Airlines will launch a daily Guangzhou-Phuket B737-800 flight on June 20. Singapore Airlines will roster the B787-10 on the Singapore-Denpasar route from July 2, replacing one of four daily A330-300s; it will also deploy the -10 on one of its four daily Singapore-Manila rotations from July 3. THAI will terminate its double daily Suvarnabhumi-Koh Samui B737-400 flights from September 2. VietJet will launch Hanai to Osaka on November 8. Uzbekistan Airways has replaced the B767-300ER with the B787-8 on the four-weekly Tashkent-Incheon route.
MRO: AFI KLM Engineering and Maintenance Components China, a Shanghai subsidiary of the European MRO group, has signed a long-term contract with Chinese low-cost carrier, Spring Airlines, for exclusive support on many components in its A320 fleet. The work will be carried out at the group’s Shanghai shop.
H+S Aviation has signed a five year contract with Asiana Airlines to provide MRO support for the auxiliary power units (APUs) on the carrier’s B747 aircraft.
