Singapore-based Scoot is expanding its network to 18 destinations this month, up from 11 in August. New services include nonstop flights from Singapore to Clark, Palembang, Pekanbaru and Yogyakarta and one-stop routes to Singapore-Kaohsiung-Osaka Kansai and Singapore-Taipei-Tokyo Narita. Read More »
Air New Zealand (AirNZ) CEO, Greg Foran, said today chief commercial and customer officer, Cam Wallace, would leave the company on September 30 to "pursue opportunities that meet his global career ambitions".
Wallace, who has been at AirNZ for 19 years, will provide consultancy support to Foran until the end of 2020. The carrier said it would "not be moving immediately to replace" Wallace, with Foran to take responsibility for leading the commercial and customer functions at the airline on an interim basis.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has allowed nonstop flights to resume to Beijing from eight countries – Austria, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Sweden and Thailand. Since March, all flights to Beijing have been diverted to another city in China, where passengers were assessed for COVID-19 before being permitted to continue to the Chinese capital. The CAAC said in a statement yesterday limits on load factors would be in place for flights to Beijing and the number of passengers entering the airport would be controlled.
Korean Air (KAL) has received approval from the South Korea Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to convert two 777-300ERs for cargo operations. A KAL spokesperson told the Yonhap News Agency the airline would consider making another request to the ministry for more passenger aircraft to be converted for cargo flights if air freight demand continued to rise during the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Airlines (JAL) and India-based Vistara have signed a frequent flyer partnership that allows Club Vistara and JAL Mileage Bank members to earn and redeem points on each other's networks. The arrangement, announced yesterday, will build on the pair’s code-sharing agreement that commenced in February 2019.
Thai Airways International informed the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) yesterday that Peraphon Thawornsupacharoen had stepped down from the airline’s board on Tuesday, September 1. Thawornsupacharoen had been a board director since December 2015.
