Cathay Pacific’s share price has fallen the day after it announced steep job losses, the closure of its regional wing, Cathay Dragon, and the renegotiation of pay and conditions for Hong Kong-based cockpit crew.Read More » The company was at HK$5.68 (US$0.73) on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in afternoon trade, down $0.17, or 2.91%, from yesterday's close of HK$5.85 on a day the broader market was flat.
Singapore Airlines group LCC, Scoot, will resume nonstop flights to Melbourne and Sydney from the start of November. Schedules published on the Scoot website showed the airline would resume Singapore-Melbourne on November 1 and Singapore-Sydney the following day. Both routes will operate once a week.
Japan Airlines (JAL) said yesterday two of its group carriers, Japan Air Commuter and Hokkaido Air System, would become affiliate members of the oneworld alliance from October 25, 2020. The two regional operators will add four destinations to the oneworld network – Kikai, Okinoerabu, Tajima and Yakushima, JAL said. JAL’s two other group carriers, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air, already are oneworld affiliate airlines. "These two airlines feature flights to beautiful destinations on the northern island of Hokkaido and Kagoshima, located at the south end of the Japanese archipelago," JAL regional vitalization division executive officer, Shunsuke Honda, said.
JAL LCC subsidiary, ZIPAIR Tokyo, said this week it would start nonstop passenger flights to Bangkok on October 28, 2020. The LCC planned to fly the Tokyo Narita-Bangkok Suvarnabhumi route five times a week. "Due to the restriction of passenger flights to Thailand caused by the pandemic, passengers only will be able to fly one-way from Bangkok to Narita," ZIPAIR said in a statement. ZIPAIR has been operating cargo-only flights to Bangkok since June.
Domestic passengers in Australia fell 88.9%, to 576,100, in August, compared with the same month a year earlier, as travel restrictions continued to disrupt air travel, figures from the country's Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed. The August figures were down 21% month-on-month from 728,000 in July. Melbourne-Sydney, usually one of the highest volume domestic routes in the world, ranked 14th busiest in the country in August with 9,900 passengers, 98.7% below the 769,500 recorded 12 months ago.
Domestic air travellers in China rose 18%, to 46 million in August, from 38.9 million in July, reports the country's Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The August numbers were down 15.2% from a year earlier. International passengers declined 97.3%, to 189,000, for the month over August 2019.
India's Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, said on Twitter yesterday flights between India and Germany will resume under an air bubble arrangement. Germany’s Lufthansa, which cancelled all flights to India in September after approvals to operate to the country were not extended, will fly four times a week to Delhi, three a week to Mumbai and three days a week to Bengaluru, the minister said. Air India will operate five flights a week from Delhi and two flights a week from Bengaluru to Frankfurt.
The number of domestic passengers in South Korea fell 27.8%, to 1.8 million in September, compared with September 2019, figures from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport record. There were 196,791 international passengers in September, a decline of 97.1% from a year earlier.
