Short Takes
October 12th 2018
Routes: Air Niugini has replaced its weekly Port Moresby-Chuuk-Narita B737 route with a Port Moresby-Narita B737 nonstop service. Read More » Cathay Pacific Airways will replace the A350-1000 with the A350-900 on the four-weekly Hong Kong-Washington Dulles route from October 28; the spare -1000 has been rostered on the Hong Kong-San Francisco route instead. China Southern Airlines will launch a three times a week Zhengzhou-Da Nang B737 MAX route on October 30. EVA Air will use the B787-9 for crew familiarization on the Taipei-Hong Kong route up to four times a day starting November 1. Lao Airlines will begin a weekly Luang Prabang-Changsha A320 service on October 31. Lufthansa will launch a daily Munich-Bangkok A350-900 route on June 1. Qatar Airways plans to increase Doha-Manchester B787-8 service from 18-weekly to thrice-daily from May 22. Spring Airlines will launch a thrice-weekly Shijiazhuang-Huai’an-Phuket A320 route on October 28, followed by three times a week Shantou-Wenzhou-Jeju A320 flights launching October 30.
