Why on earth are you just scipping out on details that are clearly available in both of your articles? The first destination in Europe that will be served by IR's new A330-200 is Gothenburg on May 1st! It says clearly in both links they will be launched in the following order: IKA-GOT 1 weekly, May ...
Jump to postIt's great that PR decided to get two more 77Ws, only a few months after they received their two newest 77Ws, for a total of 10 777-300ER! Don't mean to be boring, but I'm sure they intend to increase SFO to eventually reach double daily, just like LAX did thanks to the latest two 777s. I also must ...
Jump to postStarting in May, KLM will add a daily flight to their AMS-GOT operations for a total of six daily flights! They will also upgauge two of the flights from E190 to B737. To sum it up, operations will increase from five daily E190, to four daily E190 and two daily 737. This addition of the sixth daily ...
Jump to postMSN7489, the next A320neo for SAS and coming SE-DOX has got its engines and is havings its first test flight at TLS today -- Norwegian in launching 3 new routes from ARN this summer: DUB, LIS and ZAG, all 2x weekly In addition frequencies is expanded on several routes, mainly to holiday destination...
Jump to postCEB has realeased the passenger numbers for the year of 2016! As expected, they reported a stronger growth than MNL due to congestion, and especially the international front is impressive! Domestic: 6,394,283 (+11%) International: 2,436,355 (+21%) Total: 8,830,638 (+14%) If the growth continues in 2...
Jump to postActually PAL is reconfiguring their 414-seat A330s to 8-abreast 309-seaters instead this spring, so the 414-seater will soon be history! These will be used for slightly higher yielding routes as SYD/MEL/HKG/HNL/Japan... On the other hand, they will keep their 363-seaters (nine-abreast) to be used on...
Jump to postYes, this was announced about a year ago, but it's happening now. PAL has a fleet of 15 relatively new A330-300s, half configured with 414 seats, and half with 368 seats. All are nine-abreast. PAL has been growing quite fast lately, almost doubling their international destinations in four years. But...
Jump to postHey! So, a new year has begun and the old Philippine thread was gettting quite full, so I thought why not start on a new page? 2016 was a pretty descent year for aviation in the country with the addition of new routes and growth in existing ones. As the Philippine economy has become the fastest grow...
Jump to postA good day for GOT with two new routes being announced! In late March Norwegian will launch a twice weekly service to Split, while Wizz Air on the same time will launch a twice weekly service to Vilnius. Above this, Norwegian will increase ALC from 3 to 4 weekly, and AGP from 2 to 3 weekly flights. ...
Jump to posthttp://centreforaviation.com/analysis/air-nz-china-eastern-malindo-pal-spring-bocs-martin-mactan-cebu-win-capa-asia-pacific-awards-313217 This award is given to the airline that has had the most impressive turnaround while establishing an innovative strategic direction for its business and the indus...
Jump to postThank you guys for the latest updates from CAPA, I truly love their releases and analysis. Always a pleasure to read! I noticed something interesting during the interview with Jaime Bautista. It was the configuration of the coming A321NEO, and I was surprised by the lower density layout that they wi...
Jump to postHey everyone. I have flown into IST quite many times but on my latest TK1800 GOT-IST two weeks ago, something new happened and I was wondering if you guys could shed some light on it. Our 738 touched down on runway 05 (at 22:55), and sure, we all know IST uses alot of remote stands, but this was ext...
Jump to postHey! So I've been noticing a lot of people out there are interested in the Southeast Asia - USA market, considering recent threads about "When is VN starting LAX", "GA considers US service", "TG wants to try SEA" or "PR will use their A350 to JFK"... So I thou...
Jump to postAustrian Airlines finally returns on VIE-GOT after five years of absence! The route will be year-around starting on June 2, 2017! Operated thrice weekly to begin with, onboard the E195. The schedule allows for many of the airlines' long haul connections. OS323 VIE09:50-GOT11:50 E95 Mon,Wed,Fri OS324...
Jump to postDuerte's recent behavior will likely start to have an impact on US-MNL traffic. I really don't think it wont, as the majority of traffic between the US and the Philippines is VFR, and I don't think they care at all about this. A small thing like that does not affect their need to visit their former...
Jump to post19) EK retiring three aircraft types: A330, A340 and 777-200ER!
Jump to postDelta seems to be quite wise about curtailing flights prior to political drama. They slashed IST and BKK prior to the political problems there, and now they seems to be pulling the plug on MNL. The 744 > 777 > 767 routine is the same way they killed BKK. Perhaps they see impending gloom in SE Asia ...
Jump to postDidn't realize that TK and Pegasus flying to Erbil :D Isn't there also a large kurdish population in Sweden and Germany? Oh yes TK fly to both EBL (Erbil) and ISU (Sulaimaniyah) in Kurdistan. And you are right that the kurdish population here in Sweden is big. Turkish Airlines serve GOT-IST twice d...
Jump to postI don't know why you said cities such as Jakarta are lower yields. SQ has multiple daily to CGK with F on certain flights. CX better not transfer CGK route to KA as they're quite popular with Indonesian travellers. Bacause Jakarta is low-yield, just like the rest of Southeast Asia (except SIN and t...
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A thread that I started a few months ago when PAL went daily on on LHR.
I agree with UK-MNL beeing low yield.
But mainly VFR? Not anymore... I would say 50-50 tourist and VFR. Since 2012 the number of British visitors has doubled. So far this year, an average of almost 500 britons arrive in the Philippines every day!
You are right, J343 - they do not codeshare. They did a few years ago as I remember seeing it in the BA magazine. I think CGK is partially in the same boat - but there is a stronger home base market with some premium demand. SQ , in this case has a VERY strong market in Indonesia, Hmm, and Cathay i...
Jump to posthttp://www.local1781.org/index.php/2015 ... ilippines/ Very interesting article from last year regarding MNL-SFO "always beeing on the drawing board" for UA. I'm not saying it's going to happen anytime soon, but don't say that "they are not even interested!" I think the airlines ...
Jump to postSIN-Africa is much higher yield than BKK or KUL-Africa albeilt lower volume. It's possible for ET to be profitable even with emptier planes. I also believe they could eventualy extend the SIN service to other lower yielding Asian destination such as MNL or CGK. ET already fly to MNL, it was launche...
Jump to postJKT and MNL are both capital cities of growing importance to the US. I see that they will have daily non stops to the US, if only for business purposes. Similar to the need for India nonstops. Hmm, MNL is already served several times daily from multiple US cities... The reason why SE Asian airlines...
Jump to postProblem is the Vietnamese diaspora people don't like to fly VN. They much prefer BR and CI. Same thing for the Filipinos who go for CX or the ME3 over PR. Direct flight doesn't make it much attractive because the flight is so long that 1-2 hour connecting time is no big deal. And still, PR can prof...
Jump to postI think there's a fair chance that Philippine Airlines will grow their MNL-SFO by increasing current daily (seasonally 10 weekly) to double daily. The new flight would be a morning arrival/departure at SFO. It would most likely also be upgraded from mixed A343/77W operation to an all 77W one. They j...
Jump to postHi Everyone, I basically entered Spain from England without having my passport checked once. Okay it was glanced at by Ryanair staff when boarding but this is just to match the name to the name on the ticket. Okay, so what do you base that on? How do you know what the Ryanair staff ''glanced'' at d...
Jump to postIt's not for cash, CEB is very profitable already. The issue with CEB and the A319 is that the airlines' main hub MNL is extremly congested, with no chance to add flights. That's why both CEB and PAL are moving away from the A319 to only A320, and even more so lately, the A321! This is the only way ...
Jump to postQANTAS747-438 wrote:This is the result of PR getting 2 additional 77Ws this year. When do they arrive? Are they used or new builds?
Correct. And funny that you mention it, because PAL just announced the increase on their Canadian flights aswell! They will add a fourth weekly flight on MNL-YVR-YYZ, and a new twice-weekly terminator MNL-YVR flight, all onboard the 77W. This means a new total of 10 weekly flights to Vancouver, up f...
Jump to postHey! For many years now PAL has been serving the Manila-Los Angeles market 11 times weekly with a daily 77W and 4 weekly A343. The airline expressed their intentions to fly double daily service into their most profitable long haul markets (LAX and SFO) way back, during late last decade. Currently, b...
Jump to postPhilippine Airlines (PAL) (re-)launched its first European route to London in late 2013, starting with four weekly flights. The route initially had a real hard time struggling with fierce competition and no rights to fly over Russia/Siberia (adding 1-2 hours to already long flight)! After receiving ...
Jump to postHey! So, after KE have flown the last ICN-LAX-GRU, the airline will be down to two daily flights at LAX. What got me thinking was that I came across a schedule from four years ago where KE had almost five daily at LAX. Three daily terminators, one daily via NRT, and the rest a mix between continuati...
Jump to postSeems like a major waste of useful aircraft, and of course money. Something worth remembering is that Philippine Airlines (the only airline to fly California - Southeast Asia nonstop) serves LAX and SFO daily with the 77W, and will increase both to double daily next year. And these two routes are th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lawair" class="quote" target="_blank">lawair</a> (<a href="#66" class="quote">Reply 66</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Thai International (Thailand...
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Jump to postSeems like a lot of people are still stuck in the old image of Manila and the Philippines. For those of you who don't know it, the country has been going through a huge transformation in recent years, and will (probably) continue to do so for many more years to come. *The Philippines was the fastest...
Jump to postThe airline will launch a thrice weekly nonstop service <acronym title="Auckland - International (AKL / NZAA), New Zealand">AKL</acronym>-<acronym title="Manila - Ninoy Aquino International (Col Jesus A Villamor AB) (MNL / RPLL), Philippines">MNL</acronym>, operated by a 767-300. The new route is ex...
Jump to postA few weeks ago Iberia Express announced the launch of twice weekly <acronym title="CURRENT: Gothenburg - Landvetter (GOT / ESGG), Sweden AND OLD: Gothenburg - Torslanda (GOT / ESGB) (closed), Sweden">GOT</acronym>-<acronym title="Madrid - Adolfo Suarez / Barajas (MAD / LEMD), Spain">MAD</acronym> f...
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Jump to postStarting in March, Philippine Airlines will increase its frequencies on <acronym title="Manila - Ninoy Aquino International (Col Jesus A Villamor AB) (MNL / RPLL), Philippines">MNL</acronym>-<acronym title="Darwin - International (DRW / YPDN), Australia - Northern Territory">DRW</acronym>-<acronym t...
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Jump to postHey everyone! It's been a while since wee had the last Philippine aviation thread, so I figured I'll start a new one. Every now and then I read news about airlines increasing their presence in the Philippine market, but often the news are not "big enough" to deserve their own threads. The Philippine...
Jump to postStarting June Philippine Airlines will increase its <acronym title="Manila - Ninoy Aquino International (Col Jesus A Villamor AB) (MNL / RPLL), Philippines">MNL</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> flight to daily service, operated by A340-300. PR72...
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