AeroSur Bolivia resumes NY – Havana charter
Per article from NYCAviation, AeroSur of Bolivia from 02AUG09 to resume New York JFK – Havana service. The 1 weekly service will be operated by Boeing 767, instead of 727 that was operated previously.
Rome lost Emirates A380 service to Heathrow
With the decision of Emirates putting Airbus A380 on 2nd Daily Dubai – London Heathrow service, planned A380 service to Rome from 02DEC09, is CANCELLED
Emirates 2nd Daily A380 to Heathrow from Dec 09
As per GDS INVENTORY display on 03JUL09, Emirates is flying 2nd Daily Airbus A380 service on the Dubai – London Heathrow route starting 02DEC09.
Initially, EK003/004 receives A380 service on Day x245 (Day 245 with 777-300ER). Service increase to Daily from 01JAN10.
DELTA reduce Detroit – Tokyo to 1 Daily
As per GDS INVENTORY display on 03JUL09, DELTA starting 01OCT09 is reducing nwa operating Detroit – Tokyo service from 2 Daily to 1 Daily, starting 01OCT09.
DELTA Hawaii changes from Sep 09
DELTA will be making aircraft changes on service to Hawaii starting 01SEP09.
Atlanta – Honolulu, which upgraded to Boeing 747-400 from 29MAR09, will switch to Airbus A330-300
Seattle – Kahului is to be suspended. Suspension is seasonal
DELTA 2009 Fall/Winter International Changes
DELTA will be making several changes on International service this fall. The changes mainly involved in aircraft swap.
Changes are the following: The change on Atlanta – Amsterdam and Amsterdam – Mumbai appears to be same aircraft operating, and possibly the same flight number. The latter route, originating from Newark, remains a Boeing 767. As reported in earlier post today, DELTA will not operate New York JFK – Mumbai, which was to replace Atlanta – Mumbai. Service is dropped altogether Further Reading:
Route
Current
Effective
NEW
Atlanta – Amsterdam
NW 333
01SEP09
NW 332
Amsterdam – Mumbai
DL 767
03SEP09
NW 332
Atlanta – London Gatwick
NW 333
01SEP09
DL 767
Atlanta – Rome
NW 333
01SEP09
DL 767
Detroit – Shanghai
NW 744
24OCT09
DL 777
New York JFK – Rome
NW 333
01SEP09
DL 767
Minneapolis – London Heathrow
NW 332
01SEP09
DL 767
Minneapolis – Paris CDG
DL 767
31AUG09
Summer only
Atlanta – Tokyo Reduction
Atlanta – Fortaleza / Atlanta – Recife Suspension
Detroit – Tokyo Reduction
International cuts announced on 11JUN09
Turkish launch 3 weekly Lvov service from 27JUL09
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, Turkish Airlines from 27JUL09 is to start 3 weekly Istanbul – Lvov service with Airbus A320, then 737-800 from 01SEP09.
Schedule is the following:
TK1455 IST1235 – 1440LWO 320 147
TK1456 LWO1540 – 1735IST 320 147
Turkish 777 to Singapore/Jakarta in Sep/Oct 09
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, Turkish Airlines is operating Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on Istanbul – Singapore – Jakarta route from 03SEP09 to 20OCT09.
Service operates on Day x236 from IST. Day 2 operates with A330. In August, service operates with A330/340.
DELTA 5 weekly Detroit – Shanghai in W09/10
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, DELTA is increasing Detroit – Shanghai nonstop service from 4 to 5 weekly from 01NOV09. Service not operating on Day 27 from DTW. Service operates by subsidiary nwa
There are unconfirmed mentioning that this route may switch from 747 to 777.
DELTA reduce Atlanta – Tokyo from Aug 09
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, DELTA starting 31JUL09 reduces Atlanta – Tokyo service from 11 to 7 weekly, 2 months earlier than planned.
It will continue to operate Daily Boeing 747-400 service
CSA Czech drops New York long-haul
CSA Czech Airlines today announced it’ll be accelerating its 2009 action plan, which sees the airline cancelling all long-haul service, in particular, Prague – New York JFK service, starting 25OCT09. Seasonal service to Toronto appears to be not operating in 2010 Summer.
DELTA Cancel planned NY – Mumbai route
As per GDS availability display on 03JUL09, DELTA’s planned New York JFK – Mumbai route will NOT go ahead from 25OCT09. The availability is being all Zero’d out.
This means DELTA will suspend NONSTOP flight from the US to India, after DELTA ends Atlanta – Mumbai service. The airline previously planned to replace the service by changing to New York departure.
However it’ll still continue to operate 1-stop service through Amsterdam via subsidiary nwa.
Japan and Switzerland new bilateral deal
Japan and Switzerland this week concluded new bilateral air service deal, which sees several changes…
Tokyo Narita
Scheduled to begin from March 2010, Swiss carrier is able to increase by 2 extra weekly flights. It currently operates 7 weekly.
However, Japanese carriers should receive equal opportunity if they wish to increase flights as well
Osaka/Nagoya and others
In addition to Tokyo and Osaka, both sides able to offer service out of Nagoya and 1 additional point in Japan
Codeshare expansion
Number of codeshare flights is expanded from current 4 cities with 56 weekly flights to 8 cities with 112 flights.
Yemenia drops Marseille; Moroni Airport "Unsafe" in 2000
Yemenia has announced it is suspending all service to Marseille immediately followed by waves of protest by the Comorans.
Per various media report, group of Comorans forced Yemenia to cancel a flight from Marseille on Thursday, and forced travel agents stop selling tickets on Wednesday.
Additional details below, including Emirates’ reason to suspend Comores flight in 2000:
The airline meanwhile is being grilled by authorities and the local communities on why the airline flew Airbus A330 from Paris and Marseille to Sana’a, then switching to older Airbus A310 to Comores, ignoring the fact that the airline schedules Airbus A310 to operate Sana’a – Moroni regularly throughout the year, while Airbus A330 is also operated during peak season. This is an routine planned by the airline, and there were no evidence that the airline intentionally swapped from A330 to A310, which the particular crashed jet being cited “unsafe” to fly.
However, it also appears that the communities ignored the fact that the Moroni Airport didn’t have adequate facilities to start sea search and rescue operation, a major concern should be addressed for the island nation.
Further Reading:
Emirates in 2000 cancelled service to Moroni airport citing airport security issues. But this was believed to be related to political unrest at the time. The ICAO also found there were problems of “regarding the safety of aircraft operations” during 11-day visit in August 2000. In September 2000, there were talks that Sudan Airways to assist and help fill the void of loss of Emirates and Air France departure.
UNITED ends Mainline Chicago – Manchester US route
UNITED on 24OCT09 is ending its 2 Daily mainline Chicago – Manchester NH service. Starting 25OCT09, service operates Mesa by UNITED Express CRJ700
Winter 09/10 schedule is the following:
UA7018 ORD1310 – 1616MHT CR7 D
UA7020 ORD1830 – 2137MHT CR7 D
UA7021 MHT0635 – 0820ORD CR7 D
UA7018 MHT1702 – 1847ORD CR7 D
Virgin Atlantic drops Chicago in Winter 09/10
As expected, Virgin Atlantic has removed its 1 Daily London Heathrow – Chicago service in the inventory display, as of 03JUL09.
Service is to be resumed from 27MAR10
Virgin Atlantic drops 1 of 2 Daily Washington svc in Summer 10
Virgin Atlantic apparently is cancelling Summer only 2nd Daily London Heathrow – Washington Dulles in 2010.
Per GDS timetable display on 02JUL09, 2nd Daily VS055/056 is to operate from 31MAY10. However, Virgin’s inventory display is showing flight not available.
UNITED to start SF – Kansas city from Oct 09
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, UNITED is launching 1 Daily San Francisco – Kansas City effective 25OCT09. Service is operated by Skywest CRJ700 under UNITED Express.
Schedule is the following:
UA6667 SFO1607 – 2131MCI CR7 D
UA6766 MCI0851 – 1045SFO CR7 D
Transaero 777 to Anadyr
As per GDS timetable display on 03JUL09, Transaero is introducing Boeing 777 service on its Moscow Domodedovo – Anadyr route, starting 30JUL09.
WizzAir to Slovakia from Sep 09
WizzAir starting 20SEP09 is launching 4 weekly Rome – Bratislava service.
This will be the carrier’s first route into Slovakia
