Route Launch: August 2011 Archives

Kingfisher Airlines is to start three new routes to Colombo, Sri Lanka, effective 30th September. The airline will launch daily flights from Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Thiruchirapalli on board ATR72 aircraft. The airline originally planned to launch these flights in late 2010, which never materialized.

Kochi
IT079 COK CMB 2345 0115 D ATR
IT080 CMB COK 0245 0415 D ATR

Competition: Daily A320 flights by SriLankan. 900 weekly one way seats offered.

Thiruvananthapuram
IT077 TRV CMB 0030 0200 D ATR
IT078 CMB TRV 0600 0730 D ATR

Competition: Daily A320 flights by SriLankan. 900 weekly one way seats offered.

Tiruchirapally
IT075 TRZ CMB 0400 0515 D ATR
IT076 CMB TRZ 0200 0315 D ATR

Competition: Ten weekly A320 flights by SriLankan. 1650 weekly seats offered. Five weekly A320 flights by Mihin Lanka. 900 weekly seats offered. Total 2550 weekly one way seats offered by the competition.

Continuing its impressive expansion this year, Gulf Air has just announced its new route to Southern Sudan - the world's youngest country.
The airline will operate three weekly services to Juba, the South Sudan capital, on board Embraer E190 aircraft. The new route comes into effect from 3rd February 2012.
GF721 BAH JUB 1120 1630 E90 257
GF722 JUB BAH 1715 2155 E90 257

China Southern Airlines has made available for reservation its first Airbus A380 routes.
As announced earlier, the A380 will first operate on the Beijing - Guangzhou sector with a daily roundtrip flight from 17th October. The aircraft will then switch to operating a daily Beijing - Shanghai roundtrip flight from 26th October.
The aircraft will depart PEK at 1000L daily with an evening return. The flights seem to be mainly for crew training and familiarization purposes. The airline has not yet revealed its A380 flight operation for the upcoming Winter season.

Peach Aviation, ANA's low cost airline subsidiary with a Japanese partner (ANA also has a soon to begin JV for an LCC with AirAsia), has announced it's initial flight schedule. The airline will begin operations with three daily flights between Osaka (KIX) and Sapporo(CTS), and four daily flights between KIX and Fukuoka. The airline plans to begin operations on 1st March 2012.
The airline will use Airbus A320 aircraft and appears to be using two of the type to launch operations.
It must be however noted that the flight schedule is yet to receive regulatory approval.

The preliminary daily rotation plans for the aircraft, according to the announced schedule are as follows.

Aircraft 1
101/2 KIX 0700 - 0850 CTS 0920 - 1135 KIX
105/6 KIX 1220 - 1410 CTST 1440 - 1655 KIX
157/8 KIX 1725 - 1840 FUK 1910 - 2010 KIX

Aircraft 2
151/2 KIX 0720 - 0835 FUK 0905 - 1005 KIX
153/4 KIX 1050 - 1205 FUK 1235 - 1335 KIX
107/8 KIX 1425 - 1615 CTS 1645 - 1900 KIX
159/160 KIX 1945 - 2100 FUK 2130 - 2230 KIX

It can be assumed that these rotations switch between the aircraft day by day.

Avianca Airlines has requested approval from the Brazilian ANAC to operate flights on the Bogota - Rio De Janeiro route. The carrier presently has rights to operate three weekly flights on the route.
The proposed schedule, which is YET to receive approval, and is slated to begin on 18th October is as follows.

AV261 BOG 2235 GIG 0745+1 332 257
AV260 GIG 0930 BOG 1245 332 136

Gulf Air has made public the following changes to its route network for the northern Winter season commencing on 30th October.

SriLankan Airlines has increased the frequencies on its planned Zurich route from 2 to 3 per week. The new flight operates on Wednesday and continues to London.

New flight's schedule
UL549 CMB 0645 - 1210 ZRH 1330 - 1430 LHR 343 3
UL550 LHR 1625 - 1855 ZRH 2010 - 1045+1 CMB 343 3

The schedule for previously planned flights on day 1 and 5 remain the same.

The new flight replaces UL511/2 to London. Total weekly frequencies to London remain the same.

IndiGo, the Indian low cost carrier, will launch services to Muscat and Singapore from Mumbai effective 10th October 2011.

Mumbai - Muscat
Service operates four times per week.
6E081 BOM MCT 2125 2245 320 1345
6E082 MCT BOM 0005 0415 320 2456

Mumbai - Singapore
Service operates daily, with the return flight being operated with the aircraft arriving from Delhi.

6E051 BOM SIN 0840 1650 320 D
6E052 SIN BOM 1650 1945 320 D