AIRLINE NEWS
ETIHAD AIRWAYS will launch B787-9 services from Abu Dhabi to Perth on June 1, Shanghai and Istanbul on August 1 and Johannesburg on November
1. SINGAPORE AIRLINES has added its new premium economy offering to services to and from Manchester airport. The carrier has been gradually rolling out the new seat since it was launched in August.
AEROMEXICO will boost its Heathrow-Mexico City route to a six-times weekly service for three months from June. The new B787 service will depart from London Heathrow on Sundays and Mexico City on Saturdays.
RYANAIR is to restart flights to Belfast next month, more than five years after it dropped services to the Northern Irish capital. It will fly four times a day between Gatwick and Belfast International. Ryanair says it will also add five more routes from Belfast International from October.
FINNAIR will add an extra 1,800 seats to its Helsinki-Dublin route over the summer. The carrier currently offers a daily service but will add Wednesday and Sunday frequencies from the start of the summer schedules, bringing the total to nine flights per week.
ANA is set to place an order for three A380s, according to a report by the
Although the airline has yet to officially confirm the order, the said the aircraft would be delivered in 2018, for routes “to Hawaii and elsewhere”.
IBERIA has taken delivery of the first of its new two-class A330-200s. The aircraft will operate from Madrid to Montevideo from February 3, and San Juan in Puerto Rico from May 15. It will restart Johannesburg flights on August 1 with an A330-300.
LUFTHANSA will cease flights from Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur on February 29.
CATHAY PACIFIC has confirmed it will run a four-times weekly service between Hong Kong and London Gatwick. Subject to government approval, it will start on September
2. QATAR AIRWAYS will increase its Manchester-Doha service to 16 flights a week from May 2, operating new Monday and Saturday frequencies with its B787.
AIR FRANCE has retired its final B747 jumbo after more than 45 years of service.