All Nippon Airways (ANA) said yesterday it planned to operate 15% of its normal international flight schedule in November compared with pre-COVID-19 levels. The November figures represented a slight uptick from the last week of this month, when ANA will operate 14% of its originally scheduled international flights. Read More » "Based on changes to immigration controls, recently instituted public health quarantine measures and passenger demand trends of each country due to COVID-19, we have resumed flights for selected routes, leading to an increase in the total number of flights scheduled for October and November," ANA said in a statement.
Fiji Airways said today it was "exploring repatriation flight options" for flights between Nadi and Los Angeles in late November and early December to allow citizens and residents of Fiji and the U.S. to return home. "Flight details only can be confirmed if there is adequate demand for these services," Fiji Airways said on its website. The airline grounded international flights in late March, with scheduled services not planned to resume until December.
South Korean LCC, Jin Air, will begin operating cargo-only flights with a converted 777-200ER this week, the Yonhap News Agency has reported. The airline, which shares the same owner as flag carrier, Korean Air, plans to fly twice a week from Seoul Incheon to Bangkok and three times a week from Incheon to Qingdao with the converted aircraft. The first flight will be on Saturday, October 24.
Hong Kong International Airport said late last week it handled 100,000 passengers in September, up 19% from 84,000 passengers in August. Despite the month-on-month improvement, the September figures were down 97.9% from 4.86 million passengers in the same month a year earlier. Airport Authority Hong Kong said travel demand remained weak because of Hong Kong’s entry restrictions for non-residents as well as immigration restrictions and quarantine measures in place overseas.
International passengers flying into and out of Australia fell 98%, to 71,998 in August 2020, from 3.6 million a year ago, figures from the country's Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) show. Qatar Airways had the largest market share for the month, with 24.5% of all international passengers, followed by Air New Zealand (12.3%) and Emirates (10.6%). The top city pair in August was Sydney-Doha, with 6,216 passengers, or 8.6% of all travellers.
Grounded Indian international carrier, Jet Airways, said in a regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange late last week a committee of creditors had approved a resolution plan put forward by Murari Lal Jalan, a United Arab Emirates-based entrepreneur and the founder of U.K.-based investment fund, Kalrock Capital, Florian Fritsch. Jet Airways has not flown since April 2019 due to financial troubles and is undergoing a corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP). The airline has said it had received two bids, with the other bidder understood to be Haryana-based Flight Simulation Technique Centre, Mumbai-based Big Charter and Abu Dhabi's Imperial Capital Investments LLC, according to local media reports.
