Airline News - Asia / Pacific.Nov 27, 2006 Jetstar Airways For the aircraft, see Lockheed JetStar. For the Asian sister airline, see Jetstar Asia Airways. Jetstar Airways is a low-cost airline based in Melbourne, Australia. It is a subsidiary of Qantas, created in response to the threat posed by low-cost airline Virgin Blue. Jetstar Airways announced that it has received permission from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is the Australian federal agency responsible for the regulation of private and commercial flight. It was established on July 6 1995 when the air safety functions of the former Civil Aviation Authority of Australia were separated to operate long-haul services from Australia. The carrier said the addendum to its AOC AOC, n an acronym for the Aromatherapy Organizations Council. was the "final hurdle" it needed to negotiate before launching thrice-weekly Melbourne-Bangkok service on Thursday. It subsequently will start flights from Sydney to Phuket (thrice-weekly from Nov. 24), Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, city (1997 pop. 5,250,000), on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam. (thrice-weekly from Nov. 30) and Bali (twice-weekly from Dec. 8). Twice-weekly Melbourne-Bali flights will start Dec. 9. Next year Jetstar will launch daily service to Osaka from Brisbane and Sydney on March 25, six-times-weekly Cairns-Nagoya flights (which will originate/end in Sydney twice-weekly) on Aug. 2 and four-times-weekly Cairns-Osaka service on Sept. 8. All flights will be aboard 303-seat A330-200s. Nov 21, 2006 Kingfisher Airlines Kingfisher will operate 160 daily flights with a fleet of 23 aircraft to 21 destinations at the height of its upcoming winter schedule. It entered into an 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 agreement with Delta Air Lines last week under which passengers on DL's recently launched New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK-Mumbai flights will be able to connect to domestic Kingfisher flights. Nov 21, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
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