This is kinda cool. Scoot will take delivery of its first E190 regional jets in May. The 2-2 seating layout should be quite tolerable.
The first 6 Scoot E190 destinations ex Singapore have been announced as Krabi, Hat Yai, Koh Samui, Miri, Kuantan and Sibu...
Will start around the same time as UA's seasonal flights (assuming UA restarts). LAX-BNE will become 'congested' for the summer as DL goes after the Queensland Disneyland/Theme Park crowd for the School Holidays.
Another question is whether DL will operate past February (considering UA wasn't...
PER-ASP, coming from 25 March 2024. 3x weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays using E170s.
Somehow, this route is not currently served by any other airlines...
This is unexpected: China Eastern will add a limited-time seasonal service between Shanghai and Cairns during February 2024. Operating 4x weekly with Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/231204-mufeb24cns
I noticed recently that there doesn't seem to be a single direct flight, currently, between anywhere in India and anywhere in mainland China. For two such large countries, which even share a border, this seems really bizarre. Does anyone know why there isn't even one single flight?
Or have I...
Finnair has taken a leaf out of American Airlines' book, replacing flights with bus services on two short-haul routes to/from Helsinki.
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230512-aymay23xtpxtz
Fiji Airways is launching 2x weekly NAN-YVR flights from November using A330-200s.
I can already see some Y award availability via QFF. Didn't find any J seats yet, but the airfares could be interesting...
It looks like Qantas will be flying from Sydney to Tonga every Thursday for the next 3 months, using A330s.
https://matangitonga.to/2022/07/01/australia-s-qantas-start-weekly-flights-tonga
Flights are QF335 SYD 09:30 - TBU 17:05 and QF336 TBU 18:35 - SYD 21:20.
Tonga's international border is...
I think this is kinda cool. From November, Eurowings Discover will launch seasonal direct flights from Frankfurt to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP), which is located near Nelspruit and the gateway to South Africa's Kruger National Park...
Bamboo Airways will start non-stop flights from Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City from April 2022. Initially there will be 2x Boeing 787 flights per week, eventually increasing to four weekly flights. Melbourne-Hanoi flights will also be added...
Rex has won the QLD government contract in a competitive tender process to service the route from Brisbane to Roma and Charleville from 1 January 2022, for a period of 5 years. Rex will take over the route from QantasLink.
Rex has so far retained all its other QLD government "milk run" routes...
Alan Joyce has just announced a new SYD-DEL route will begin on 6 December 2021. Flights will operate via Darwin outbound, and non-stop from DEL to SYD inbound using A330s.
Flights will be 3x weekly initially, increasing to daily by the end of the year.
This comment from Alan Joyce in last week's earnings call caught my attention:
https://news.alphastreet.com/qantas-airways-ltd-qan-q4-2021-earnings-call-transcript/
So, if for some reason Singapore isn't open by December but Taiwan and the UK is, who knows - perhaps we'll see a daily...
Qantas roars back to New Zealand with 122 flights a week and launches two new routes
Qantas and Jetstar will operate up to 122 return flights per week across the Tasman when the quarantine-free bubble starts.
Qantas will also launch two new routes into Queensland - Auckland to Cairns and the...
I noticed BITRE have just released their domestic airline activity for January.
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/ongoing/domestic_airline_activity-monthly_publications
The busiest route for the month was MEL-OOL. Notably MEL-SYD is still languishing at #13, although with the impact of...
It does appear they’ve been positioning these planes quite a lot lately.
Has anyone been able to systematically find the routes that the 787 will be on? Or is this something that just pops up in a lucky dip style.
Rex has put out yet another media release today accusing Qantas of predatory behaviour in launching flights on various former Rex monopoly regional routes.
Rex says that it has decided to keep operating on routes with new competition from QantasLink, even though they will be loss-making, and...
QantasLink is launching 3 new routes to CFS and BNK from 1 April, as well as upgrading some SYD-CFS flights from Dash 8s to Boeing 717s (with J seats sold) in April.
The new routes are:
MEL-CFS - daily Boeing 717 flights
BNE-CFS - 4x weekly Q400 flights
CBR-BNK - 2x weekly Q400 flights...