Qatar Airways yesterday operated its inaugural scheduled flight into Canada. The thrice weekly service to Montreal, was inaugurated with A7-BBH, a Boeing 777-200LR, which was delivered fresh from the Paris Air Show.
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Greek carrier Hellenic Imperial has pushed back the launch of their scheduled operations to London, and will be using Boeing 747-200 aircraft to New York due to an inability to source sufficient Airbus A340 aircraft.
It has been reported that the airline has a payments issue with regards to the ex Gulf Air Airbus A340, A9C-LG, that the airline has acquired. The Networker is inclined to believe that this, if true, could be a payment issue with the paintshop as the aircraft was already flown out of Bahrain for repainting a few weeks ago. However, if the aircraft is being leased, a non-payment to the lessor cannot be ruled out either.
The airline is now operating the New York, JFK flights on board the 747 Classic. This could prove to be a very rare opportunity for all the Boeing 747 lovers to see a -200 flight operating a 11hr flight.
The airline expects that it will take a few weeks for the Airbus A340 aircraft to enter in service.
Schedule:
HT411 ATH JFK 1730 2130 742 1357
HT412 JFK ATH 2330 1700+1 742 1357
UPDATE: This route has now been confirmed by the airline.
Thai Airways from 17th November plans to resume flights to Brussels, Belgium, after a hiatus of multiple years.
The airline plans to operate three weekly flights between Bangkok and Brussels on board Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. Thai's 777s are fitted with 30 Business class seats and 262 Economy class seats.
The *tentative* schedule is below. Please note that the airline has not yet officially published these information and that the route is pending approval.
Schedule
TG934 BKK-BRU 0030-0700 246
TG935 BRU-BKK 1330-0620 246
The timing and route details are subject to change.
bmi British Midland is launching flights to Amritsar, India from London, effective 13th October. The flights will operate thrice weekly, onboard Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
The airline is routing the new flights via Almaty in Kazakhstan. Strangely, the airline at present does not have local traffic rights between Almaty and Amritsar, hindering the full revenue potential of the route. However this makes The Networker believe that the airline is aiming this flight largely to cater for the Almaty - London traffic and is trying to add some additional revenue by operating onwards to Amritsar.
The UK has a large Non Resident Indian population from the Amritsar region, based particularly in Birmingham,
This is bmi's second attempt at serving India, having ended its daily Mumbai flight in 2008. Bmi will be the only airline offering direct services between London and Amritsar.
Schedule:
Till 30 Oct
BD991 LHR 1110 - ALA - 0305+1 ATQ 146 332
BD992 ATQ 0430 - ALA - 1200 LHR 257 332
From 30 Oct
BD991 LHR 0955 - 2320 ALA 0010+1 - 0245+1 ATQ 146 332
BD992 ATQ 0405 - 0745 ALA 0845 - 1050 LHR 257 332
The Hawaii Tourism Authority has announced that it is working with China Eastern Airlines (IATA:MU) to launch direct flights between Shanghai and Honolulu.
The flights are planned to operate as scheduled charters, commencing on 9th august, and will be flown twice weekly.
The airline has already applied to the US Department of Transportation for approval. The schedule for the new service is yet to be announced.
The airline operated charter flights between the two cities during 30Jan-10Feb,2011, which Hawaii Tourism Authority says, brought in $1.7m in tourist expenditures.
As reported by The Networker earlier, KLM has now officially announced that it will be resuming service to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The carrier will start flying the Amsterdam - Rio De Janeiro route from 1st of November, after a hiatus of almost 11 years.
KL705 AMS GIG 1040 1930 772 246 11h50min
KL706 GIG AMS 2140 1155+1 772 246 11h15min
KLM first operated service to Rio in 1946.
Indian low cost carrier IndiGo (IATA:6E) will be launching international service from September 2011, becoming the sixth international airline of India. IndiGo (per April 2011 data) controls a 19.7% share of the Indian aviation market, holding the third spot - even higher than Air India.
IndiGo will be initially launching its international services out of Delhi and Mumbai, to Bangkok, Dubai and Singapore.
India's airlines are required to complete a mandatory five years of operation in domestic routes before they can operate in international routes. The other Indian carriers that operate internationally are, Air India ( with Indian Airlines ), Air India Express, Jet Airways ( with jetLite), Kingfisher and SpiceJet.
The airline will be launching Delhi - Dubai service on 1st September, followed by Delhi - Bangkok on 8th September and Delhi - Singapore on 15th September. The airline will be launching flights to Bangkok and Dubai out of Mumbai on 2nd October.
The airline will be using new Airbus A320 aircraft with a higher range for the international operations. IndiGo is promoting a special INR9999/= fare for all of the routes.
Dubai
IndiGo will be operating to Dubai's Terminal 2.
Delhi - Dubai, daily eff 1 Sep
6E 021 DEL DXB 1650 1855 4 3hrs 35mins
6E021 DEL DXB 1715 1925 x4 3 hrs 40 mins
6E 022 DXB - DEL 2215 0310+1 D 3hrs 25mins
Competition:
Emirates Airline(EK) - 28 weekly (14-777, 7-332, 7-77L)
Air India(AI) - 14 weekly (7-332, 7-321)
Jet Airways(9W) - daily (7-73H)
Kingfisher Airlines(IT) - daily (7-320)
Mumbai-Dubai. daily eff 2 Oct
6E 061 BOM DXB 1815 2025 D 3hrs 40mins
6E 062 DXB BOM 1955 0110+1 4 3 hrs 45 mins
6E 062 DXB BOM 2025 0110+1 x4 3hrs 15mins
Competition:
Emirates Airline(EK) - 35 weekly (14-77W, 14-332, 7- 772)
Jet Airways(9W) - 21 weekly (21-738)
Air India(AI) - 14 weekly (14-321)
Kingfisher Airlines(IT) - daily (7-320)
Bangkok
Delhi - Bangkok, daily eff 8 Sep
6E 041 DEL BKK 0535 1120 D 4hrs 15mins
A trusted source has revealed to The Networker that the Emirates Airline is in the final stages of adding Denpasar, Bali in Indonesia to its network.
The new addition has reportedly been revealed by one of the airline's local directors during a recent luncheon.
The airline, which already serves Indonesian capital Jakarta twice daily, will most likely extend its fourth daily Singapore terminator flight to Denpasar.
The Singapore flight presently has the following schedule.
EK354 DXB SIN 0325 1445 daily 77W
EK355 SIN DXB 0200 0510 daily 77W
With the eleven hour long layover at Singapore, the airline can easily fit in a Denpasar sector to this flight. The new flight will likely operate along a schedule similar to the following estimate by The Networker.
EK354 SIN DPS 1605 1840 daily 77W
EK355 DPS SIN 2210 0045 daily 77W
The airline is likely to launch the new flights in late 2011.
NOTICE: This post discusses about a future event that is NOT confirmed. The information might be correct or incorrect. The author shall not be held liable for any damage occurred to any corporation or person from this article. The Networker posted this article as it had been revealed by an airline official at a public function. The Networker is willing to remove this post if the airline contacts and requests so. Thank you.
Australian charter and scheduled passenger airline Strategic Airlines has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for permission to operate flights between Australia, the USA and a third country.
The airline has stated that it plans to launch a route connecting Brisbane with Honolulu in Hawaii. The airline will be leasing an Airbus A330-200 from a Switzerland based company for the operation.
Strategic has also applied for the right to operate charter flights between Australia and the US. It has already received the approval from the Australian authorities for the proposed operations.
Strategic has been an ACMI, charter operator for the most part but has recently begun operating some scheduled routes. This will make Strategic the third Australian airline to enter the Australia - US market.
Korean Air has uploaded to GDS, the schedule for its planned Airbus A380 service to Paris.
This will make Paris the airline's first European destination to receive A380 service.
The airline begins A380 service to Paris on 26th September, initially operating thrice weekly. The rest of the days of the week will be operated with Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
KE901 ICN 1320 - 1820 CDG 388 Mo, We, Fr
KE901 ICN 1320 - 1820 CDG 744 Tu, Th, Sa, Su
KE902 CDG 2100 - 1450+1 ICN 388 Mo, We, Fr
KE902 CDG 2100 - 1450+1 ICN 744 Tu, Th, Sa, Su
The airline is also planning to launch A380 service to London.
Greek carrier Hellenic Imperial will be launching scheduled passenger flights from 24th June when it begins service to New York and London.
The airline will be operating four times weekly service to New York JFK and six times weekly service to London Gatwick at the beginning. This will make it the only Greek carrier to serve the US directly. The airline will be operating Airbus A340-300 aircraft on both routes.
Athens - New York
HT411 ATH 1730 - 2130 JFK 343 Mo, We, Fr, Sa
HT412 JFK 2330 - 1700+1 ATH 343 Mo, We, Fr, Sa
Athens - London
HT211 ATH 0800 - 1010 LGW 343 Mo, Tu, We, Th, Su
HT211 ATH 0725 - 0925 LGW 343 Fr
HT212 LGW 1100 - 1630 ATH 343 Mo, Tu, We, Th, Su
HT212 LGW 1050 - 1650 ATH 343 Fr
The airline has stated that it plans to expand to more destinations, including Dubai, in the near future.
In an interview with the Travel Quotidiano magazine, Royal Air Maroc's General Manager for Europe has revealed that the carrier expects to launch six new routes in the Winter 2011/12 season.
The routes include
Casablanca - Dubai
Casablanca - Sao Paulo
Casablanca - Copenhagen
Casablanca - Vienna
Agadir - Rome
Marrakech - Rome
The schedules for these proposed routes have not been published yet.
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