There are huge historical ties between UK and Malaysia, what's strange is why BA ever left. They left because of covid. Then the Far East was much slower to recover demand than the north Atlantic. Yeah, I was more referring to before 2015 when it re-started after quite a long absence I think. I thi...
Jump to postThey left because of covid. Then the Far East was much slower to recover demand than the north Atlantic. Yeah, I was more referring to before 2015 when it re-started after quite a long absence I think. My understanding was that back then the Malaysian government were prioritising their own airline ...
Jump to postI second this. I'm all for making everything as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. But this travel limitations business is hysteria. I agree. I'll continue to fly as often as possible and enjoy every minute of it. This "climate emergency" is nothing but a transfer of we...
Jump to postEU antitrust approval is expected with the airlines pledging to sell Asiana's cargo department and devest four European routes. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-antitrust-regulators-set-okay-korean-air-asiana-deal-sources-say-2024-01-12/ Good news. T'Way expected to buy the car...
Jump to postWhy at all JL chose 359R, whereas 78X is lighter and can accomodate more passengers in typical 3-3-3 layout? 359R has obvious edge over 78X with the new widened cabin and 3-4-3 layout (which is OK for short intra-Japan hops). It seems like JL ordered them too early, when only "old" cabin ...
Jump to postCX doesn't just serve HKG O&D though - there's all the connectivity to the rest of Asia/Australia/NZ, etc. When many of the Southeast Asian carriers continue to struggle (think PR which has yet to return to Europe, NZ, etc, while CX continues to have a strong presence at MNL), and Chinese carri...
Jump to postThe 17:00 departure from IST seems odd to me for passengers connecting from European cities. Passengers arriving on the noon arrival bank will have a quite long layover in IST, while passengers arriving on the ~16:00 bank will have a very tight connection (and arrivals after 16:01pm will be outside...
Jump to postAmong the 600 problems CEO Sean Doyle has earmarked let's hope he tackles a few of the "best Business class in the world" problems, ie FIRST Class! The cabin toilets are just the same as the rest of the aircraft, they should be on a par with Emirates. The menus are not as lavish as they c...
Jump to postGatwick seems to be building up quite a collection of major global airlines now: Singapore, Qatar, Emirates, Delta, Saudia, Lufthansa, Air China and Turkish Airlines. Not to forget BA’s extensive B777 ops at LGW, which are getting boosts for S24 That’s true - although BA’s 777 ops at Gatwick are mo...
Jump to postGatwick seems to be building up quite a collection of major global airlines now: Singapore, Qatar, Emirates, Delta, Saudia, Lufthansa, Air China and Turkish Airlines. It’s good for travellers to have more choice - Gatwick is much easier to get to than Heathrow for anyone who lives along the Thamesli...
Jump to postSome airports are hubs for more then one airline, such as ORD for United and American or LHR for BA and Virgin Atlantic etc. In North-East-Asia, this is a pattern with ICN being a hub for both Korean and Asiana and TPE being a hub for both CAL and EVA. But the fact that in Tokyo, both airports, NRT...
Jump to post- Eighth KL B773 PH-BVG cabin mod completed, lead time approx. 15 days; - PH-BVP moved to hangar area for cabin mod Overview KL Business Direct Aisle + Premium Comfort Class Mods - B773 - 7 modifications pending, 8 completed, 1 in progress PH-BVA - Completed June 23th 2023, in service PH-BVB - Comp...
Jump to postBy 2016 MH had already made it clear it did not want to fly those A380’s. And even though they were still flying them to LHR, it’s not like they were full (or full of passengers with non-heavily discounted tickets). The MH accidents instilled a HUGE fear in the general public of MH, which of course...
Jump to postKUL was never a longstanding route, it was only started in response to MH’s decline after the 2014 accidents; it’s not like any other Euro airlines fly there either KUL was a longstanding route. It operated until around the time of the Asian Financial Crisis. The flight continued to Australia (I th...
Jump to postIf they can reintroduce AUH, will KUL, BKK, ICN, or KIX be reintroduced? 777-9 deliveries are due in 2026 (although probably likely to slip) and some GE 777s may start seeing their way out in 2027 so airframe availability is still limited, as are LHR slots. If you added BKK, KUL, ICN or KIX what wo...
Jump to postTwo thirds of BA's Long-Haul network are outside of North America. They are hardly 'concentrating their resources in NA'. That is Aer Lingus. In fact, BA stated in a recent investor's meeting that they plan on having pre-Pandemic capacity restored by 2025-2026. Their recent re-introduction of AUH i...
Jump to postTwo thirds of BA's Long-Haul network are outside of North America. They are hardly 'concentrating their resources in NA'. That is Aer Lingus. In fact, BA stated in a recent investor's meeting that they plan on having pre-Pandemic capacity restored by 2025-2026. Their recent re-introduction of AUH i...
Jump to postBig state reception given to Korean president during his visit ti UK. Makes me wonder why BA would not return to ICN, or is it BAs strategy to concentrate their resources on N.America? In contrast, how profitable can a single B789 seating 216pax on a LHR-SIN-SYD route be?? Two thirds of BA's Long-H...
Jump to postI don’t know specifically why KLM has cancelled a number of their JFK flights this week, but I would say as a short transatlantic flight it is a easy way to free up a 787 (if they are short due to maintenance issues / short of staff…etc) and with multiple daily flights with KLM and Delta (as well a...
Jump to postI don’t know specifically why KLM has cancelled a number of their JFK flights this week, but I would say as a short transatlantic flight it is a easy way to free up a 787 (if they are short due to maintenance issues / short of staff…etc) and with multiple daily flights with KLM and Delta (as well as...
Jump to postrobcol99 wrote:All Turkish airlines check in and flight ops systems are down. Ops pretty much came to a full stop.
Most people don’t care about the livery of the plane they’re flying on, They don't THINK they do, but there's a very good reason why airlines go to the expense. Every time you see that BA livery, BA gets some space in your head for a bit. It adds up and one day you're buying a ticket and BA has bee...
Jump to postThat’s true - but in the mid-2000s when BA had 3 daily 744s, they were also competing with Qantas (daily 744), Virgin (daily 346), Air New Zealand (5 weekly 772 I believe), Cathay (who I think were 28 weekly at the time) and for a short while Oasis Hong Kong (I think they were 7 weekly 744 to LGW)....
Jump to postBA are returning to AUH with daily flights for summer 2024. It was "permanently" discontinued in 2020-21, but I knew no doubt it'll return at some point when demand is favorable enough. Now if AUH can return, perhaps KUL, BKK, KIX, and ICN will (and should) be among the next. Any chance o...
Jump to postIt’s amazing how many people/bots/whatever are up in arms about this uniform… I mean come on it’s just a uniform! I can tell you that most people do not care what the crew are wearing. As long as they are easily recognisable as flight crew and put on a good service, it does not matter. Then again, ...
Jump to posthttps://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/231025-banw23hkg Aero routes is reporting that in November, February and March BA is reducing HKG to 10 weekly (7 weekly 788 and 3 weekly 789). Quite shocking how much demand to HKG seems to have dropped - some days to just a single 788 flight! Pre-Covid it was consis...
Jump to posthttps://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/231025-banw23hkg Aero routes is reporting that in November, February and March BA is reducing HKG to 10 weekly (7 weekly 788 and 3 weekly 789). Quite shocking how much demand to HKG seems to have dropped - some days to just a single 788 flight! Pre-Covid it was consist...
Jump to postcptlove wrote:There were rumours about replacing 777 fleet business class seats. So if it happens may be that seats taken out from 777s can be used in 330s.
Strategically, it would offer a corridor, with KE, for VS pax to travel to/from Australia/NZ? Currently, KE flights ex-SYD/BNE/AKL don't connect to ICN-LHR - you have to overnight in ICN. A double daily service (with VS picking up the second ICN-LHR service) might remedy this? Theoretically this is...
Jump to postAccording to ch-aviation "t'way Air close to A330 deal with Korean Air" - unfortunately behind paywall. Anyone with more insight about this deal?! From Korean media, KE failed to sell off OZ’s cargo division to T’way and Air Premia as cargo rates have been falling dramatically since air t...
Jump to postWhy would VS dedicate two aircraft for a daily Seoul flight when they could operate two daily flights to the US with the same resources? Strategically, it would offer a corridor, with KE, for VS pax to travel to/from Australia/NZ? Currently, KE flights ex-SYD/BNE/AKL don't connect to ICN-LHR - you ...
Jump to postEpic, new TK commercial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0_PkmiSTc The inflight advertising is already bad enough with the “Hello Türkiye” advert, the inflight wifi advert and then Morgan Freeman talking about Pangaea. At 2:51 long I really hope they don’t replace Morgan Freeman with this or wor...
Jump to postKorean sources are indicating KE's new submission to EU regulators includes that they will sell off Asiana's cargo division and relinquish OZ's slots at CDG, FRA, FCO and BCN. This will greatly impact the supposed synergies from the merger. Returning slots at JFK and SFO is also an option being eva...
Jump to postThrowback to 10 years ago in 2013: So IIRC reports were circulating about BA relaunching CGK after suspending the route sometime during the economic crisis and would've retimed the SIN flight to allow for a tag-on to CGK potentially as a fifth freedom route between the two Asian capitals. But neith...
Jump to postIST will never be a premium airport because all premium airports around the world have a healthy mix of airlines from around the world and not one carrier absolutely dominating the airport. SIN, HKG, LHR, LAX (if it can be considered premium) all have global airlines with their flagship products fl...
Jump to postOk my take on route suggestions usually follow ones that nobody else is talking about (ok some!). What I would like to see return and honestly think there is a business case for: BOG - really need to wake up to this again. AV milking this now. LIM - should get back in before LA start - big growth m...
Jump to postI am doubtful many of the suspended routes will return. These were AUH, BKK, CHS, DMM, DUR, ICN, KIX, KUL, JED, LIM, MCT, SEZ, YYC Why are you doubtful though? Tell me why please. BKK.... do Brits not visit Thailand? There is service by other European carriers like AY, KL, LH, LX and OS. Likewise, ...
Jump to postOther than the Netherlands (AMS) I can’t think of a single country that allows international connections from ‘trusted’ countries without security. I guess the US from pre-cleared countries, but that’s a bit of a different situation. There probably are a few more but it isn’t very common. The UK go...
Jump to postIMO Turkish has been stuck in a quite ridiculuous position with the old product. On the one hand they promised to get rid of them, and they still don't do this. And if they don't plan to retire them, why not to retrofit them with newer seats, with a normal business class and IFEs like they did to T...
Jump to postAdam Air had an issue with crashes which I suspect led to its downfall. I’m guessing with the others the simple answer is that with all of the competition the cost of the tickets sold could not cover the cost of running the airline. Starting from 2007 Lion Air’s strategy differed from the others wit...
Jump to postNot sure why the planned ICN flights would matter to the US network. Far cheaper and quicker to go between Seoul-USA direct over the pacific using Korean Air / Delta. Because the OZ slots that Virgin would allegedly get at LHR mean that the aircraft they use for the flight would have to sit overnig...
Jump to postAny idea what VS is going to do with the slot pair they're currently using for Pakistan flights ? I see VS flights to Pakistan leave at 10:20pm and arrive back at 6:00pm into Heathrow (LHE 4x/week and ISB 3x/week). These times don't work for TATL, unless they do some creative shuffling with their c...
Jump to postIt would be after the merger. So the new combined KE/OZ will cut a flight and give the slots to VS to operate the route. I believe KE and OZ both fly to LHR 1x daily so after this remedy KE/OZ will continue to fly to LHR 1x daily in competition against a daily VS flight. The problem with the OZ slo...
Jump to postKey to this: "Korean Air will provide Virgin Atlantic with slots at London Heathrow and Seoul Incheon to operate up to seven flights per week" Korean have been sitting on spare LHR slots? They've never been more than daily in all the time I have been living in London? Does this include th...
Jump to postI do wonder about how viable all of this is, and whether it is just to make it look like the CMA is doing something. 1. What slots will be available at LHR? If it is the OZ ones it will mean VS will need to overnight an aircraft in ICN which is a hugely inefficient use of an aircraft. 2. I assume if...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if there are any plans to re-time the Haneda flights? It is being boosted to double daily (on some days) but both flights are morning / early afternoon departures in both directions. With the longer flight times due to avoiding Russian airspace, wouldn’t an evening departure from LH...
Jump to posthttps://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/istan ... wstorm/amp
200 flights have been cancelled at Istanbul on the 5th and 6th February due to the forecast of snow.
If a flight from Europe is disembarked by bus at IST instead of a jetbridge, are the passengers still exempt from security or not? I arrived on a 787 from London to a bus gate and the bus dropped me by the A gates where you went straight up the escalator into departures without re-clearing security...
Jump to postIf a flight from Europe is disembarked by bus at IST instead of a jetbridge, are the passengers still exempt from security or not? I arrived on a 787 from London to a bus gate and the bus dropped me by the A gates where you went straight up the escalator into departures without re-clearing security.
Jump to postThis is unacceptable if you want to be the best hub and transfer point in the world. This is a brand-new facility, and all similar bottlenecks should have been considered. 5 km taxi by an aircraft before taking off or after landing is unacceptable, what an unnecessary fuel cost, extra carbon emissi...
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