Airline News - Asia / Pacific.Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (HKSE: 0293 ) is an airline based in Hong Kong, operating scheduled passenger and cargo services to over 104 destinations worldwide. It is the flag carrier of Hong Kong with its main base at the Hong Kong International Airport. [1]. Airways Cathay keeps mainland ambitions in check, sees little threat from LCCs. Cathay Pacific Airways COO Tony Tyler said the Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. airline will focus its mainland China activities on just three cities, Beijing and Xiamen (currently served), and Shanghai with three daily flights starting as early as this year. Apr 5, 2006 China Southern China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines (中国南方航空公司) (SEHK: 1055, NYSE: ZNH) is an airline based in Guangzhou in the Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. will increase its Los Angeles-Guangzhou service to daily on June 22. Apr 3, 2006 Jetstar Jetstar launched twice-weekly Adelaide-Sunshine Coast service and twice-weekly Adelaide-Hamilton Island service last week aboard A320s. The LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. established a crew base at Adelaide in February and has based a second A320 there. Twice-weekly flights to Darwin will begin May 1. Jetstar said it also based an A320 at Avalon Airport outside Melbourne last week, allowing it to expand its Sydney service to five-times-daily. It will operate 130 weekly flights from Avalon, including daily Perth service launched March 28. Apr 6, 2006 Jetstar Jetstar said it streamlined its online booking process and noted that its website accounts for more than 80% of ticket purchases. Apr 6, 2006 Pakistan International Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, more commonly known as Pakistan International Airlines or PIA (Urdu: پی آئی اے يا پاکستان took delivery of its second 777-200LR. It is the aircraft that broke the commercial jetliner distance record on a Hong Kong-London flight last fall. Apr 4, 2006 Qantas Qantas will launch a Sunday Melbourne-Queenstown flight from July 9 aboard a 737-800. Service will run for 12 weeks. Apr 4, 2006 Shandong Airlines Shandong Airlines launched a summer schedule March 26 that includes new international services from Qingdao to Pusan (thrice-weekly) and Taegu (twice-weekly) aboard 737-700s. Apr 3, 2006 Thai Airways Thai Airways and Lao Airlines signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. Thursday designed to encourage tourism and travel to Laos while promoting Thailand as the gateway to the peninsula. The carriers eventually will codeshare on the Bangkok-Vientiane and Chiang Mai-Luang Prabang routes and interline in·ter·line 1 tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines To insert between printed or written lines. in on flights from the US, Australia, France and Japan into Laos. Apr 3, 2006 Tiger Airways Tiger Airways of Singapore offered to take over routes from archrival arch·ri·val n. A principal rival. Jetstar Asia. Responding to press reports that Orangestar Investment Holdings, parent of Jetstar Asia and Valuair, is seeking fresh funding of S$36 million ($22.3 million) after having exhausted the S$60 million that was pumped in at the time of the merger last July. Apr 5, 2006 |
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