Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

EK request to fly A380 to Islamabad is said to be under review by CAA Pakistan. Earlier it was reported once weekly operation was approved till August and further talks will be held for the four weekly sought, EK also said they want to fly it daily.

Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Gulf Air A320NEOs delayed till August 2018. Airline will also maintain their A330s despite the 787 deliveries Expect the launch of a Chinese city towards the end of this year heard any rumors of a top up order?? I think Guangzhou is the place, hope they repaint A330s, all are still in original 2003...

Re: Why don’t US passenger airlines have CARGO subsidiaries?

Airline cargo subsidiaries using frieghters: Qantas ANA Korean Air Asiana Air China China Southern China Cargo/China Eastern Suparna Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Airlines China Airlines EVA Air Singapore Airlines Malaysia Airlines Emirates Etihad Qatar Airways Saudia Iran Air Uzbekistan Airways El Al Ro...

Re: Will AirBlue ever fly to the US?

Air Blue flew to the United Kingdom BHX and MAN but they pulled out after a couple of years, there were many delays with their A340 and also with the A321 that replaced it on the Islamabad route. Air Blue pulled out of the UK and in a press release at the time stated that it intended to stay more r...

Re: Will AirBlue ever fly to the US?

They would run into Trademark issues with JetBlue if they did. Remember that United sued United Airways of Bangladesh for trademark infringement once the latter launched service to London. Not really, Airways vs Airlines plus no resemblance between livery design, colours, logo and wordmark, it was ...

Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Medina should do well with pilgrim traffic on right sized aircraft.

Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Indigo plans to expand GCC network in 2019 with Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Riyadh, Medina, and Jeddah. Interesting to see MED included.

Re: Does DHL service Pyongyang FNJ?

SCQ83 wrote:

Does Amazon.kp offer same day delivery in Pyongyang?

Re: EK monopoly on PVG-DXB

CAAC - Dubai, Sharjah, Tehran, Baghdad, Kuwait, Cairo, Addis Ababa possibly some more African routes Air China - Dubai, previously Kuwait and Addis Ababa China Southern - Tehran, Dubai, Nairobi, previously Mauritius, Lagos, Jeddah, Medina seasonal and Sharjah, plans for Cairo, Riyadh and Luanda wer...

Re: EK monopoly on PVG-DXB

Spiderguy252 wrote:

Are you folks sure Air China doesn't fly to Nairobi?

Because I spotted a 747 at NBO same time last month:



(Sorry for the picture - it is what it is, but you can see that it is a CA 744).

Re: EK monopoly on PVG-DXB

Put it this way, the Chinese carriers are likely already flying to those destinations that the EK pax are eventually flying to (after halting at DXB). Do the any of the Chinese carriers have really much of presence in the Middle East or Africa (outside of maybe JNB)? CZ flies to Nairobi from CAN. T...

Re: Air Tahiti Nui reveal brand refresh

At least they should have used the new flower logo on the tail, something doesn't seem right, original design may have run into opposition and a compromise reached keeping current one with tweaks.

Re: Turkish democrasy

Personally I don’t like burkas at all, but I also believe in a persons right to wear what they want. And this is where you are losing me. I just don't believe that women really want to wear a burka. Put another way, I don't believe that it is a completely free and voluntary choice. If it was, I wou...

Re: ETIHAD A380 to Berlin Schoenefeld

Lufthansa A380 also flew a charter to Abu Dhabi some months back.

Re: Turkish democrasy

Quoting Varsity1

Watching Erdouchbags's thugs fist fight reporters in the US is all I needed to see

Re: Kuwait Airways announces Milan

How is it differentt to the US ban on nationals of some countries? originally all Muslim.

Re: Macao - Why not an LCC?

Macau has plenty of LCC service already. AirAsia to DMK, CNX, UTP, HKT, JHB, KUL, MNL Cebu Pacific to MNL, CRK T'Way, Jeju and Jin to ICN Scoot to SIN Spring Airlines to HGH, HRB, PVG Tiger to KHH, RMQ, TPE Can't really think of any missing markets that need LCC service from MFM So Air Macau couldn...

Re: Emirates massive reductions in service due to rway replacement

Why not do this work in the winter when the tarmac will set far more quickly? We are talking about Dubai. Please enlighten us on when the Dubai temperatures are so significantly lower that tarmac will set quicker! I imagine that the selected window has been determined very carefully to minimise dis...

Macao - Why not an LCC?

Just wondering why Macao has the dowdy flag carrier like Air Macau, serving a few destinations instead of a fun looking LCC? I can imagine something like WOW air with same livery as their airline, named WOW!macao.

Re: Pakistan Aviation Thread - 2018

Shaheen MD/owners mother.. a Canadian lady, who was or is one of the board of directors, has intervened and stopped the airline from reducing employees.

Re: Etihad CEO lays out restructuring plans

Merging EK and EY and having them operate out of DWC just makes way too much sense for it to not happen eventually. The ownership could be split between the two governments and hopefully they can make it so it's a joint point of pride rather than pride making stupid decisions for competition. Or be...

Re: Pakistan Aviation Thread - 2018

EK want to fly A380 Islamabad daily. Isn't ISB a protected airport where the PAK government has controlled the ME3 expansion? If so, I would keep the A380 out. PK does a decent job of connecting ISB nonstop to EU. Also the A380 is not that great. It is a pain to board and deplane, be it in J or Y. ...

Re: Pakistan Aviation Thread - 2018

Karachi has a limited open skies policy since 1992 when new terminal was opened. Quetta has only two foreign airlines at present, historically it had two others from across the western borders, whatever few international services PIA had from there ended and no pvt carriers showed interest in doing ...

Re: Shaheen Air banned from flying Islamabad-Dubai

None were leased from Jordan, some stopped over in Amman on way back to lessor and two A319 are sub-leased to Royal Jordanian, three A320 and all six A319 have left fleet.

Re: Pakistan Aviation Thread - 2018

EK want to fly A380 Islamabad daily.

Re: Pakistan Aviation Thread - 2018

Shaheen is shrinking, 50% cabin staff reported fired and three A320s being returned to lessor, in June they ended A319 operations, three sub-leased to Fly Egypt and Royal Jordanian all flying in Shaheen livery, three returned to lessor. New livery also not appearing on the older fleet, rumored the a...

Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Whats the reason for delay in Kuwait fleet repaint?

Re: Orders that didn’t happen

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Re: Arabian aviation thread - 2018

Serene Air from Pakistan plans to add an unspecified city in Saudi Arabia as its first international route by October.