Vietnam Airlines said today the first official scheduled international commercial flight to Vietnam would take off tomorrow when VN417 departs from Seoul Incheon for Hanoi. Tickets for the flight, to be operated by an A350-900, went on sale today and were available from Vietnam Airlines ticket offices and official agents in South Korea and Vietnam, the airline said in a statement. The SkyTeam alliance member resumed outbound international flights on September 18 when it flew Hanoi-Tokyo Narita.Read More »
All Nippon Airways (ANA) said today it would add two nonstop routes from Tokyo Narita to China from September 30 "in response to recent changes in border restrictions, public health quarantine measures and passenger demand trends amid the widespread impact of COVID-19". The airline will operate to both Tokyo Narita-Guangzhou and Tokyo Narita-Qingdao once a week.
Japan Airlines (JAL) will resume nonstop flights between Tokyo Narita and Guangzhou from October 2. The service will be once a week, JAL said today. The announcement of a return to Guangzhou followed JAL’s recent boosting of its Tokyo Narita-Dalian schedule from twice a week to three times.
China Southern Airlines (CSA) said yesterday its international network would increase to 22 routes in October, up from 18 in September. The four routes are a resumption of Guangzhou-Jakarta, Guangzhou-Kathmandu and Guangzhou-Manila return flights and a one-way Ho Chi Minh City-Guangzhou service, CSA said on its website.
China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and its subsidiary, Shanghai Airlines, have scheduled 26 international flights a week to 20 destinations from seven points on the Mainland in October. The revised schedule is up from 23 international flights a week to 20 destinations from five cities in China in September. New routes for October are nonstop flights to Seoul Incheon from Wuxi and Yantai and from Kunming to Dhaka and Phnom Penh, schedules posted on the CEA website showed.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) has deferred bond payments due to be paid this month by six months, local media reported yesterday, citing a notice posted by CIMB Investment Bank on the Bank Negara Malaysia website. The next payment date for holders of the 1.5 billion ringgit (US$360 million) of Islamic bonds is March 2021.
Canberra Airport said it would resume daily operations from October 3 as the relaxation of some domestic border restrictions in Australia had led to an increase in scheduled flights. The airport's passenger terminal has been closed on Saturdays since late August due to a lack of flights to the national capital because of COVID-19 border closures.
