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Thanks Isuru and Umedha.. Budget airlines are feeling the pinch a lot. Even legacy carriers are offering unbelievably low fares. Example: QF was offering all inclusive return fares from MEL/SYD to HKG for $599 per person. At the moment QF is offering MEL to New York Return for $1299, which is a steal. Between AUS and NZ EK is offering cheaper fares than JQ or VA, hence head in first strategy wont work -
Air Asia X used to fly from Chch. They gave up due to longer flight requiring an extra set of crew and yields being too low. With the Air NZ /SQ partnership, MH, TG and Cathay offering daily flights to asia.... I dont think they will start to operate from AKL or Chch in near future. There is an oppertunity if the WEL airport extend the runway, so that a fully loaded A330 can fly from Wellington as currently there is no long haul flights from WEL. But that is few years in futureLeave a comment:
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Air Asia wont do it. Air AsiaX is their medium/long haul carrier with a fleet of A330s. But Air AsiaX will be very careful in lounging any route as it is severely loss making. They just shut down ADL too. Plus in NZ they would be looking at AKL. But again caution is needed. JQ pulled out of AKL-SIN due to poor yeilds and loads.Leave a comment:
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According to NZ Herald, AirAsia is keen to fly from New Zealand to Australia to connect with services to Asia, which could mean more bargain fares for holidaymakers.
The airline's international division, AirAsiaX, flew from Christchurch to Malaysia for about a year before pulling out of the route in May 2012 after suffering a sharp drop in demand following earthquakes in the southern city.
Fernandes said during a visit to Sydney yesterday that as direct flights from Asia to New Zealand had not worked, the best service could include a stopover in Australia.Leave a comment:
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It would be interesting to see what happens with the new T5 in Changi.
If T5 is exclusively for SQ (and its subsidiaries MI, TZ and UK [if and when Vistara starts SIN operations!]), it surely will work in a similar way to DXB's T3 (Concourse A & B) and how EK managed to exploit it very well, and is good for passengers because all flights depart from the same terminal.
As of now, SQ use T2 for Tier II destinations and T3 for Tier I destinations.Leave a comment:
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Changi's T5 to be bigger than 3 current terminals combined - http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapo...inals-combined
Interesting details released on the new Changi Terminal 5:
- Designed to handle 50M passengers per year, growth to 70M - almost as much as T1,T2 and T3 combined.
- Planning underway even though T4 is still under construction.
- Expected to open in 2020
- Located on the east side of the airport, third runway to be built. Connected to other terminals for connections, dedicated MRT station.
Wow! Changi Terminal 5 going to be used by only SQ ?Leave a comment:
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KLM Boeing 747-400 has received during a recent major overhaul at Kuala Lumpur the revised corporate scheme. What do you think of the new KLM livery? When it's going to be on the sky again for revenue service?
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Has anyone heard Of any news or timeframes Of when the Concorde s might fly again?
March 2, 1969: Concorde makes maiden flight
Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, completed a "perfect" maiden flight on this day in 1969.
The Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde made its maiden flight on this day in 1969, after two previous attempts were aborted due to bad weather.
Spontaneous applause and cheers broke out from observers as the French-built prototype of the supersonic transport (SST) took off from Toulouse Airport at around 3.30pm, and circled for just 27 minutes before landing due to further weather concerns.
During the test flight, Concorde’s speed never rose above 300mph and its altitude reached a lowly maximum of 10,000 feet. During commercial journeys it would reach speeds of up to 1,350mph – more than twice as fast as conventional aircraft - and fly as high as 60,000 feet.
[Related story: Concorde – where are they now?]
Test pilot Andre Turcat said that the flight was “as perfect as we had expected”, but warned that Concorde was far from being the finished article.
“The first flight is more than an achievement,” he added. “It is the start of more months and years of hard work before the plane can be flying passengers over the Atlantic.”
The first flight of the British-built Concorde prototype, piloted by Brian Trubshaw, lasted 22 minutes and was made from Filton airfield near Bristol to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on April 9, 1969.
First Flight Video : http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/m...11363964853797
A British Airways Concorde supersonic jet airliner takes off from London's Heathrow Airport in 2001.Leave a comment:
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Theres some demand to middle eastern destinations from ZYL, BG operates flights from DAC via ZYL to routes like Muscat, Jeddah, Dammam.....theres also a surprisingly good demand to LHR from ZYL, some DAC-LHR flights touch down there but no foreign airline ever operated to ZYLLast edited by dilushasg-bdavi; 05-03-2015, 11:51 AM.Leave a comment:
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Flydubai to start direct flights to Sylhet in Bangladesh. Flydubai will be the first foreign carrier operating into Sylhet?? Does Sylhet-Dubai route has sufficient passenger demand?Leave a comment:
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