AIRLINE NEWS

AIR FRANCE will be increasing flight capacities to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in anticipation of rising demand during the 2014 summer season.

AIR CHINA has begun flying to Osaka from Tianjin via Dalian. Starting May 5, BRITISH AIRWAYS will be increasing the frequency of its London-Chengdu service to five times weekly, and will be flying it with a Dreamliner.

CATHAY PACIFIC will stop services to Jeddah at the end of this month, and Abu Dhabi for “commercial reasons”. The schedule to Bahrain, meanwhile, will be increased to daily with a stopover in Dubai.

EMIRATES has launched the first ever regular A380 service to Barcelona. The superjumbo replaces the Boeing 777-300ER on the daily Dubai to Barcelona service.

ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES is to deploy a B787 Dreamliner on a new daily route from Addis Ababa to Shanghai Pudong, starting from March 29.

HAINAN AIRLINES is now flying to Singapore from Chinese cities Taiyuan and Hefei via Haikou.

HONG KONG AIRLINES is planning to increase services between Hong Kong and Hangzhou this month. A third daily all-economy class service will be deployed on the route.

HONG KONG EXPRESS has unveiled new developments planned for 2014, including a brand new logo and livery as well as a new destination, Seoul.

KOREAN AIR will be launching a new non-stop service between Incheon International Airport and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport in May.

LUFTHANSA will roll-out its inflight mobile phone service across its entire long-haul fleet of over 100 aircraft this year.

MALAYSIA AIRLINES will cancel its Los Angeles service from April 30, after almost 30 years operating the route.

V AIR is the name that has been picked for the hotly anticipated low-cost carrier from TRANS ASIA AIRWAYS. Vietnam intends to sell stakes of a number of state-owned companies later on this year, which will include its national carrier VIETNAM AIRLINES. VIRGIN ATLANTIC will terminate its Sydney route with effect from May 5.