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Qantas has launched A380 services between Australia and Hong Kong – making it the fourth A380 destination in the Qantas network. The inaugural A380 service between Sydney and Hong Kong departed Sydney yesterday at 1145 local and arrived in Hong Kong at 1750 local. The return service arrived in Sydney this morning at 0840 local. Sydney-Hong Kong A380 services (QF127) operate on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and return on the same day as QF128. Qantas customers travelling between...
The Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 is now flying to Frankfurt and New York, with the inaugural Singapore – Frankfurt – New York service having departed Singapore shortly after midnight. With more than 450 customers on board, flight SQ26 is scheduled to make its inaugural touchdown in Frankfurt at 0610hrs local time. It will then depart the German city at 0820hrs and arrive at New York’s JFK airport at 1110hrs, all times local. The daily A380 flights will replace an existing daily Boeing 747-...
Virgin Australia today announced that it would commence daily Airbus A330 services from Melbourne for the first time, with tickets going on sale today for flights to Perth and Sydney. From 14 May 2012, the airline will expand its popular Airbus A330 “Coast To Coast” service to include double daily Melbourne to Perth return flights. From 15 May 2012, the Airbus A330 will also operate a daily morning peak-hour return service between Melbourne and Sydney. Virgin Australia Group Executive of...
Emirates has today underlined its commitment to Scotland with plans to introduce a second daily non-stop flight to Glasgow, commencing 1st June 2012. The announcement comes as a result of continued demand for Emirates’ service between Dubai and Glasgow, which began in 2004. Since then, the international airline of the UAE has carried over 1.7 million passengers and tens of millions of kilos of cargo. The additional flight, coupled with an aircraft upgrade on the existing service, will increase...
Singapore Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines have agreed to boost air services between Singapore and destinations in Scandinavia - including with direct flights to the Swedish capital Stockholm. Under a Memorandum of Understanding signed today, the Star Alliance partners plan to co-operate on existing as well as new flights. Subject to regulatory approval, the airlines are to participate in joint operations, including the co-ordination of flight schedules and joint sales activities. Such joint...
Malaysia Airlines is ready to mount an additional 14 extra and upgraded flights to various Malaysia domestic destinations in conjunction with the forthcoming Chinese New Year holidays. Seats on these additional flights will be up for sale from 20 January 2012 – 28 January 2012. This is over and above the 32 extra flights from 17 January 2012 to 1 February 2012 announced last week. The full-service premium carrier saw the need to boost its offering due to the increasing demand from the market...
JetBlue Airways launches its year-round new daily nonstop flight between Hartford-Springfield's Bradley International Airport (BDL) and West Palm Beach International Airport (PBI). With this start of service, the airline now provides its world-class service and low fares between Connecticut and three Florida cities. With the addition of new service to San Juan, Puerto Rico last week, this is JetBlue's fourth destination added from Hartford-Springfield - a strong pattern of growth since the...
AirAsia X is withdrawing its services to India (Mumbai and Delhi) and Europe (London and Paris) from its hub at Kuala Lumpur, as part of its network realignment. The long haul, low fair affiliate of Air Asia has blamed falling demand in Europe, the high oil price and the added costs of UK Air Passenger Duty (APD) and the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) for its decision to pull out of Europe. Meanwhile it blamed visa restrictions for travel between India and Malaysia and increased...
Ryanair announced 19 new routes from Girona to Aarhus, Bydgoszcz, Cagliari, Cork, Doncaster, Dusseldorf, Gdansk, Ibiza, Knock, Krakow, Madrid, Malmo, Nador, Perugia, Poitiers, Skelleftea, Stockholm, Thessaloniki and Turku from March 2012. Ryanair’s Girona based aircraft will grow from four to nine for summer 2012, as its new routes (59 in total) increase its Girona traffic to 3m passengers p.a. To celebrate its 59 low fare Girona routes Ryanair launched a 1million seat sale with seats from €9....
Korean Air has confirmed that commencing 29th April 2012 it will add to its daily service between London’s Heathrow Airport and Seoul, South Korea with flights from London Gatwick, which will initially be three times a week. This new service will mean that Korean Air will now operate routes to/from Seoul throughout 16 cities in 11 European countries and will link London and Seoul 10 times a week through both Heathrow and Gatwick gateways. As well as boosting the service to Korea, the Gatwick...
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