Canada has no friends https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... support-us
Jump to postRumor has it Flynas is buying troubled Pakistani carrier Shaheen Air, which is currently only allowed to operate Haj flights, previous routes included Kuwait, 4 points in UAE, one each in Oman and China, prior to that Qatar, one point in Iran and Malaysia were served too.
Jump to postYes, but then it went onto U.S/Canada dealings.
limeyptwo wrote:Does AC have a service there?
No other country has spoken out in support of Canada. The silence is really telling, only Amnesty International is behind Canada. Again. Another thread turned into a Trump USA debate. Most of the comments here have nothing to do with the matter at hand which is a dispute between Canada and Saudi Ar...
Jump to postPermission to allow A380 put on hold till new govt takes over, they will decide whether to grant once weekly or four or deny.
Jump to postI bet if AI or 9W was involved the comments would be very diffent from both sides, Indians defending and non-Indians critisizing.
Jump to postAs for pulling all the students, I think most people's reaction is that this is great news, because we are experiencing severe housing shortage in major cities and rents are pushed sky-high in recent years. Pulling 12000 students mean freeing 12000 apartment units in major cities in a very short ti...
Jump to postFirst PIA A320 painted in revised livery as worn by some 777s https://www.facebook.com/planespottersp ... 53/?type=3
Jump to postMarkhor logo still adorns A320 AP-BLU and was misreported as having been removed, latest pic http://i67.tinypic.com/2ivk9vo.jpg PIA is also to order 7000 model aircraft of 772ER in 1:200 scale, in new livery. Actually Shaheen has suspended all international and domestic operations, only Haj services...
Jump to postAircraft was a 737 https://kopitiambot.com/2018/08/04/american-airlines-kicks-chinese-music-student-off-flight-says-to-buy-1st-class-ticket-to-get-home/ Pilot doing victory sign as she leaves was strange. While she was leaving, the pilot claimed that he was hit with her cello which caused him to ble...
Jump to postVistara is expected to start Kuwait, Riyadh and Jeddah in 2019, all from Delhi.
Jump to postActually Shaheen has suspended all international and domestic operations, only Haj services are allowed by CAA.
Jump to postIndigo plans to launch KL somewhere between October and March, will it work considering other Indian carriers left?
Jump to postShaheen has officially ended Guangzhou route, initially a few services were canceled due to ongoing financial situation over the past week. 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. Over 20...
Jump to postIndigo mentions IST in new routes planned by April https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 447_1.html
Jump to postMarkhor logo was removed from A320 AP-BLU today at Karachi, the only aircraft to have worn it. Later it operated a flight to Islamabad.
Jump to postJoeCanuck wrote:In the same way that eggshell, cream, bone, snow, ivory and vanilla are all basically white...gold is basically yellow.
Included Philippines too.
Jump to postIn particular, Philippines and Indonesia don't attract or be able to retain ones from different regions like south Asia, Levant, CIS, Africa and Europe.
Jump to postThe 2 pictures I have are not good quality, they would be more like a form of evidence. I have given up on posting pictures on airliners.net. I have pictures of planes that are not in the database, but get rejected. I had recently a very nice picture of a plane, again not in the database. Got rejec...
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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.
Jump to postGulf 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...
Jump to postAirline 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...
Jump to postAir 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...
Jump to postThey 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 ...
Jump to postMedina should do well with pilgrim traffic on right sized aircraft.
Jump to postIndigo plans to expand GCC network in 2019 with Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Riyadh, Medina, and Jeddah. Interesting to see MED included.
Jump to postSCQ83 wrote:Does Amazon.kp offer same day delivery in Pyongyang?
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...
Jump to postSpiderguy252 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).
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...
Jump to postAt 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.
Jump to postPersonally 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...
Jump to postLufthansa A380 also flew a charter to Abu Dhabi some months back.
Jump to postQuoting Varsity1
Watching Erdouchbags's thugs fist fight reporters in the US is all I needed to see
How is it differentt to the US ban on nationals of some countries? originally all Muslim.
Jump to postMacau 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...
Jump to postWhy 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...
Jump to postJust 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.
Jump to postShaheen 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.
Jump to postMerging 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...
Jump to postEK 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. ...
Jump to postKarachi 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 ...
Jump to postNone 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.
Jump to postShaheen 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...
Jump to postSerene Air from Pakistan plans to add an unspecified city in Saudi Arabia as its first international route by October.
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