Short Takes
September 28th 2018
MRO: Under a five year agreement, SR Technics will provide new customer, Skymark Airlines, with MRO maintenance for the Japanese carrier’s CFM56-7B engines. Read More »
Routes: Air Niugini will add a twice-weekly Port Moresby-Shanghai B767-300ER service commencing October 23. British Airways will launch a four-weekly Heathrow-Osaka B787-8 route on March 31. Emirates Airline will cease its four-weekly Dubai-Mashhad B777-300ER route from October 27; flydubai will continue to operate this route with a daily B737-800 service. KLM will increase Amsterdam-Narita from daily to ten weekly starting April 1. Malindo Air will start five-weekly Kuala Lumpur-Kolkata B737NG flights from October 22. Royal Brunei will launch a three times a week Bandar Seri Begawan-Narita A320 route beginning March 15. S7 Airlines will launch a twice-weekly Irkutsk-Sanya A320 and a twice-weekly Novosibirsk-Sanya A320 route from November 1, respectively. SriLankan Airlines will end its five-weekly Colombo-Hong Kong A320neo route on October 27. Thai VietJet Air will launch a daily Bangkok-Da Nang A320 service on October 15. Xiamen Airlines will start a daily Hangzhou-Hong Kong B737-800 route and a five-weekly Hangzhou-Osaka B737-800 service from October 28, respectively. 9 Air will launch a thrice-weekly Guangzhou-Mandalay B737-800 route on October 2, its first international service.
