Somehow this discussion is ignoring the population of India (1.4 billion) and its economy (will be the third largest in the world in a few years). So long haul LCC has a much higher chance of being successful here than Western Europe (which is almost 1/4 of India). Long haul low cost has never had ...
Jump to postOfficial now: https://www.philippineairlines.com/en/newsevent-listingpage/press-releases-statements/philippine-airlines-to-launch-manila-seattle-route-in-october-2024 2023 demand to/from Seattle to the top Asian markets relevant to PR were as follows: Round trip pax below Tokyo - 163,747 (majority ...
Jump to postTC957 wrote:Air Peace operated it's first LOS - LGW flight with their own B772.....Norse contract cancelled ?
If that’s the case then they should consider ACMIng the freighter to someone reliable in the U.S. for the summer season and see how it goes from there.
Jump to postThe B787-10 can work very well in QR........ Not sure I agree. They have plenty of B787-9 and A350-900 to cover that market from above and below. Not every route requires the range of the B789 or A359. With a big majority of QR's routes to UK/Europe & India/Asia all being less than 8-10 hours t...
Jump to postFor ET’s unique operational requirements, the A221-223 makes more sense than the E95-E2 as the airplane has longer flying range capability + can carry 2 pieces baggage allowance on intra Africa flights. The baggage allowance on regional services is very important due to the amount of feed that desti...
Jump to postWow, this is surprising.. ET's 77Ws are 399 seats in a 9ab configuration.. Unless they plan on adding more premium seats the 779 will be north of 460 seats.. I wonder what destinations do they have in mind.. Additionally another customer that will operate the A35K and 779 together.. The revelation ...
Jump to postHere is the full press release of EY network expansion from June.
https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/ ... q9ci?amp=1
KHI AMM CMB TRV also increased from mid June
Norse Atlantic today revealed its full year 2023 financial results which were not pleasing to the naked eye. Operating loss: US$ -135.2 million (-31% operating margin) Net loss: US$ -168.6 million (-38% net margin) Seat factor: 74% Until they realize that #1 stop repeating the same mistakes over and...
Jump to postAir Asia is apparently considering flights to the US in 2025, perhaps from Manila. "Capital A is considering making Manila Ninoy Aquino International a "hub to the United States" by launching flights to destinations such as Los Angeles International in 2025, Tony Fernandes, Group CEO...
Jump to postAll of AA's 47 B772ERs are between 22-24 years old hence they need to be replaced within 3-5 years. These jets only seat 31 less pax than their B773ERs. Considering that AA's existing B773ERs are going to be retro-fitted with 70J which would mean an overall seat count less than 300, I do not expect ...
Jump to postUnfortunately, Flair too will sink eventually as their finances/debt are not sustainable even with Lynx out. There is already too much incremental capacity in the Canadian marketplace with Porter adding E95-E2s rapidly domestically + on trans-border services this year and next.
Jump to postrukundo wrote:In the network map, they said that some flights to Africa will be operated by A321LR
Some big dreams Air Asia has. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5dbe4632601eb31977f947/af4977d9-45ec-43d1-b607-db39002b7dd7/Airbus+Meeting+22+Feb+2024+%5BFINAL%5D.png? Here is link to their press release https://newsroom.airasia.com/news/airasia-reveals-plan-to-become-the-worlds-first...
Jump to postOnce again Africa is on Air Asia X radar (after a first attempt in Mauritius ) Cairo, Mahe, Nairobi and Cape Town https://newsroom.aviator.aero/airasia-reveals-plan-to-become-the-worlds-first-low-cost-network-carrier-during-airbus-leadership-visit/ Over 14 years ago Air Asia X was already looking t...
Jump to postJust my opinion... Vietjet should have learnt from history that no LCC world-wide has ever been successful flying long haul low cost with its main regional rival Air Asia X having suffered the same fate at its previous failed attempts flying to HNL LGW MRU IKA AKL MCT etc. It should just focus on it...
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https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/e ... om-3-june/
Can anyone enlighten me about Air Tanzania's 787-8 fleet: * will TC take delivery of LN1186 which is currently in final assembly at CHS? * what is the status of the frame that first sat in Guangzhou for 3 months and is now sitting in Kuala Lumpur for 3 months? * what, if any, is the grand plan for ...
Jump to postThe MIA stop will make BOG-DXB a lot less attractive to anyone without a US visa on either end. But if it helps keep DXB-MIA profitable, so be it. Will be a nice premium offer for MIA-BOG pax. I know that transiting PAX have to go through immigration in the US, but in this case since it's the same ...
Jump to postThere were few orders which were expected to be formalized before Christmas last year which did not:
Riyadh Air NB order
Thai WB order (done now)
Indigo WB order
I doubt though the Riyadh Air and Indigo orders would be announced at SIN and would likely be done at Farnborough this summer.
The "issue" with LGW is that there aren't good beyond connections vs LHR. A surprising amount of Air India DEL-LHRvv traffic isn't in fact going to/from the UK, but to/from Canada, using connections with Air Canada. The catchment area of LGW is big, but smaller than LHR. Being south of Lo...
Jump to postThat proposed 4 weekly 787-9 AUH DPS was never going to be a match for EK's twice daily DXB DPS (including one on A388) and QR's thrice daily DOH DPS. Very true and unfortunately the same gloomy forecast one sees for their upcoming NBO + existing KIX services as well. Whatever happened to that idea...
Jump to postEtihad January 2024 traffic statistics: https://www.etihad.com/en/news/etihad-reports-january-2024-traffic-statistics 35 % year-on-year growth AUH airport had 22,935,316 passengers in 2023, 44.5% increase compared to 2022: https://www.adairports.ae/english/media-centre/press-releases/2024/2024-02-0...
Jump to posthttps://x.com/seanm1997/status/1758860424928219498 Air India - Bengaluru to London Gatwick. Flights start 1 April 2024 AI177 BLR 1405-2005 LGW (Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun) AI178 LGW 2135-1150+1 BLR (Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun) Why LGW? I understand why GOX, ATQ and AMD are LGW but I think COK a...
Jump to postLooks like those Bali dreams are over before they even started: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240215-eyns24dps That proposed 4 weekly 787-9 AUH DPS was never going to be a match for EK's twice daily DXB DPS (including one on A388) and QR's thrice daily DOH DPS. Very true and unfortunately the same...
Jump to postEtihad January 2024 traffic statistics: https://www.etihad.com/en/news/etihad-reports-january-2024-traffic-statistics 35 % year-on-year growth AUH airport had 22,935,316 passengers in 2023, 44.5% increase compared to 2022: https://www.adairports.ae/english/media-centre/press-releases/2024/2024-02-0...
Jump to postFBM is quite a safer city compared to FIH. FBM also has few good 4 and 5* hotels but I dont know if any airline does layovers there as ET and KQ crews can easily do a turn around. Over the past year less than 15,000 pax flew BRU-FBM-BRU but how many pax bought a seperate ticket to fly FBM-FIH and th...
Jump to post-BKK-JFK and BKK-GVA are more like diplomatic routes serving diplomats (I guess maybe pressure from gov?) and that's the reason they bought A345 to serve JFK non-stop. I'm not going to suggest that TG will resume GVA again, but I'd like to point out that GVA-BKK is about 80 000 pax a year and they ...
Jump to postSince many people are wondering how large the Greater Miami area (MIA + FLL) - Bogota round trip pax market segment is, please find it below: 2019...MIA-BOG-MIA 438K + FLL-BOG-FLL 229K totalling 667K 2023...MIA-BOG-MIA 439K + FLL-BOG-FLL 195K totalling 634K Average fare is US$ 300 one way with YQ in...
Jump to postReuters has updated report since JerseyFlyer posted original link to confirm that Thai has decided to go for the GENx for this new 787 order https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/thai-airways-orders-45-boeing-787s-plus-options-sources-2024-02-08/ Also TG spokesperson officially confirm...
Jump to postFYI, Thai spokesperson officially confirmed to CH aviation that all 45 B787s ordered by the airline are for the B789 variant only.
Link: https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/137019 ... ve-b787-9s
It will be difficult for EK to capture pax from BOG beyond MIA because all pax would need to get off at MIA, clear US immigration/customs and then re-check in at MIA. This means all pax departing from BOG flying EK via MIA to XYZ city must possess a U.S. visa or be an American citizen / green card h...
Jump to postNever thought I'd see the day that TG makes a big order for 1 family of aircraft instead of ordering >10 of each subvariant Gonna assume the majority of them is probably going to be the 787-9, with a few 787-8 and 787-10 too. The 787-8 would probably be used on long and thin routes, or routes that ...
Jump to postDue to increasing p2p demand to Thailand, Germany’s hybrid leisure carrier Condor announces new long haul winter seasonal services. 4 weekly FRA-BKK + 3 weekly FRA-HKT Effective 22Sep and all flights to be flown using an A339Neo (30J + 280Y) Over the past year, p2p demand on FRA-BKK was 420,000 pax ...
Jump to postpvking625 wrote:A380 returns to Osaka (KIX) on the 1st of June with Premium Economy.
That second flight to Guangzhou though. The daytime one. Also that 630pm departure to Bombay doesn’t sit well with me. The daytime to and from Jeddah also needs some tightening. The Guangzhou is a late departure off the morning bank (and feeds back into the third bank), while the Mumbai is slightly...
Jump to postJNB-FIH already sees 11 weekly flights presently spread amongst Asky (4) Air Cote D'Ivorie (4) and South African(3). So there is more than enough capacity operating on this market segment which saw 45,000 pax fly back and forth in 2019. FBM-JNB in 2019 in comparison saw 41K pax flying but today I t...
Jump to postAlready operating these routes since last month and now been loaded into the schedule for S24 as well. Thanks a lot ;) . Does anyone know why Congo Airways is flying with 2 * 738? https://www.congoairways.com/z/cga-app/vue/fichiers/horaire/UP-DATE%205.5.2%20WEB.pdf According to its website, fleet i...
Jump to postI am not so sure about this strategy... hope it works out for them. I could - perhaps - understand the rationale for a business class on the 321 on priority routes where they can't deploy the widebody they used to operate. But the 320.... why it is needed? Because one influential person complained?...
Jump to postI am not so sure about this strategy... hope it works out for them. I could - perhaps - understand the rationale for a business class on the 321 on priority routes where they can't deploy the widebody they used to operate. But the 320.... why it is needed? Because one influential person complained?...
Jump to postFlair's initial reductions for Summer 2024 season published now. Source: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240130-f8ns24intl Also the CRA should not have let their credit amount owed to them reach $67m in the first place! Once it reached $15-20m, they should have given a stern warning with court order ...
Jump to postKenya Airways announces adjustments for S24 season CDG increased from 5 weekly to daily nonstop AMS reduced from daily to 5 weekly Nairobi-Lagos gets a big boost…Current daily service is upgraded to 10 weekly ie 6 weekly B788 + 4 weekly B738 from 03Jun Dakar-Nairobi increased by from 5 weekly to 7 w...
Jump to postAmongst the LH group, the airline most suited for the DAC market is actually ITA Airways due to the large Italy-DAC p2p demand + transit traffic via FCO to JFK/YYZ/IAD/ORD and Western EU/UK. As per MIDT, 73,000 pax flew DAC-FCO-DAC + 61,000 DAC-MXP-DAC + 28,000 DAC-VCE-DAC so in total 162,000 Italy-...
Jump to post150 MAX10s can also be exchanged for a combination of Max8s and additional B787s. Btw does UA have any long term plan to configure a sub fleet of B787s into a HD configuration like they have done with their B772s?
Jump to postShamrockBoi330 wrote:Sizeable unidentified orders for Airbus in December 12x a320 and 137x a321, could this potentially be it?
Did Boeing announce any further sizeable unidentified orders in December after the now identified Akasa order?
AC4500 wrote:BoeingGuy wrote:To confirm, it’s on AS metal. Not a Porter code share?
Yep.
Schedule:
SEA-YYZ: 7:05 AM - 2:40 PM 737
YYZ-SEA: 3:40 PM - 6:00 PM 737
Does anyone have an idea on the breakdown of how many MAX8s versus MAX10s were part of this order please?
Unfortunately, I reckon less than one third of the 150 planes ordered were for the MAX10s.
So, when does AI start DEL-DFW? Will it be daily? What equipment will it be flown with? The latest information being circulated internally at AI is as follows: DEL-DFW starting Sep DEL-LAX starting Oct DEL-SEA starting Oct Common sense prevailed and they are not launching DFW and LAX with only 6 we...
Jump to postSince some people were asking, the p2p demand between CPH and ATL over the past year was 16,771 round trip paying US$ 860 one way (with fuel surcharge included).
Naturally the core purpose of this flight is connections beyond ATL to Florida, Texas, California, LAS, SEA and the heartland states.
I flew today KHI ADD and ADD DLA on ET. The B7M8 KHI ADD was sold out in Y but around 50% in J. The B789 on ADD-DLA was about 75% full but with majority of pax getting off in DLA instead of SSG. Pleasant three hour transit at ADD and everything on board the B789 worked. Surprisingly though the B7M8 ...
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