Regional Round-Up
Skymark postpones A380 flights to U.S.
July 1st 2014
Japan’s third largest airline, Skymark, has delayed its launch of A380 Narita-New York services from December to mid next year. The carrier said the arrival of the first of its order of six A380s had been postponed due to problems with cabin and gallery installation of the two-class 394-seat airliners. Last month, the carrier started flying A330s on the third busiest route in the world – Haneda/Tokyo to Fukuoka. Read More »
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It has announced it will put the 271-seat airliners on Haneda to Chitose, in Sapporo, and Naha, in Okinawa when its third A330 joins its fleet in August. Skymark president, Shinichi Nishikubo, said load factor on the A330 flights was a better than expected 70% and added he was confident the flights would reach their load factor target of 85%. Nishikubo will use the belly space in the A330s for a new cargo business as well as using the aircraft for international charter flying.
