Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

[With that mentioned, why are both JL and NH international network more limited than that of OZ and KE? JL and NH respectively both have significantly bigger fleets than OZ and KE, but seem to serve far fewer destinations, especially Asian and European ones. Is it just because JL and NH have much l...

Re: Cathay’s 777-300s flying?

From a random count on FR24, 12 out of 17 773A are flying. I've worked out that currently 10 out of 17 x 773A are in service: 1 is in storage at ASP. 4 are in maintenance at XMN. 1 is in storage following an ground incident in CTS earlier this year. 1 is in maintenance HKG following an air turn-bac...

Re: Taiwan Aviation - 2024

It's crazy that CI and BR don't have international service from Taichung and JX launched it first. UO in April is flying 2-3X daily to HKG, OZ and KE near daily to ICN, and LCCs to Vietnam. Four cities in Vietnam have service, two in Korea and it looks like Tiger Air will be first to fly to Tokyo. ...

Re: HU potentially ordering up to 20 339s

Is HU still in financial trouble? I recall reading that other airlines are acquiring them. They are now owned by Liaoning Fangda Group Industrial, so no longer under the larger HNA Group umbrella. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-12-08/era-ends-as-hna-cedes-control-of-core-airline-operations-10181...

Re: Cathay’s 777-300s flying?

From a random count on FR24, 12 out of 17 773A are flying.

They're not used heavily per se, but do fly to popular ex-HKG tourism ports like NRT/KIX/BKK/ICN/TPE/CTS along with heavily patronized route like PVG.

Re: OAK Renaming Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Makes sense for OAK to attract more Airlines in, for most folk from outside the USA (or California!) might not know the proximity OAK has to the City of San Francisco. For VFR visitors, the longer journey to the city might not be a deal breaker if the cost of flying to OAK is far cheaper than SFO. ...

Re: Updated: JAL orders 21 x A350 and 10 x 787

I wonder if they would ever cancel their MAX8 order and just go with all A321neo for narrowbody operation. Doesn't really makes sense to operate just 11 Standard A321neo and 21 MAX8. They could easily order MAX10 instead if they want the capacity, but they decide to order A321neo. Makes no sense at...

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

Not a huge order per se, but that's still quite a coup for Airbus. A split of widebodies is no surprise due to their current fleet make-up. but I am surprised to see A321neos. I imagine these A359s will be long haul-configured? Would it be reasonable to assume that in more normal times, those A321s...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

Could the 77Ws replace the 773s when they are being replaced by the 779s? In the next 10 years, we could see the following line up at CX: Long Haul - High Density 779 / A35K (way out - 77W) Long Haul - Medium Density A359 Regional - High Density 77W reconfigured (way out - 773) Regional - Medium De...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

From the latest earning report: https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2024/0313/2024031300191.pdf They do own 30 out of 39 77Ws, and those are unlikely to be gone soon. The 777X won't be coming in until 2025 earliest, and right now they don't have any A350s (-900 and -1000) on order. Th...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

None, at some point they will all be retired, not many CX Tristars around these days I mean at some point all of CX’s A350s will be retired too… Refurbishing 777s indicated that at least part of the 77W is planned to stick around for a while though. From the latest earning report: https://www1.hkex...

Re: 4 airlines on TPE SEA

Mainland carriers were also quite heavy in SEA market before the pandemic which doesn't help yield. They were? IIRC it was Hainan less than daily to PVG and PEK. Xiamen had stopped. Was there another? I don’t think that’s heavy whatsoever. You're correct...for some reason I keep thinking there was ...

Re: 4 airlines on TPE SEA

Is this the new DFW KEF? Delta will start TPE SEA this summer Starlux will start TPE SEA in august And now China airlines will start TPE SEA in July https://x.com/aeroroutes/status/1767357500578267259?s=46&t=99zjwpClQbiW_TOEUoTaSA Plus EVA has 10 flights a week Who folds first? This is the new ...

Re: Washington, DC (BWI / DCA / IAD) Aviation - 2024

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1762200024597807580 Speaking of noise, I saw this tweet the other day. One person 13 miles away complained 1,024 times? That's drop-dead hilarious if that's the case. Also means the vast majority of people aren't complaining and we shouldn't bend over backwards ...

Re: Oman Air to retire A330's, cut destinations in downsizing

No surprises anyway.

They're not really using A330 on that many routes even now. Talking about 5w to FRA, 5w to KUL, 2w to KHI, 4w to ZRH, 4w to HKT, and the daily flight to DXB and SVO, plus occasional substitution on one of their BOM flight. Doubt they're using all 10 as-is.

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1741985-20240226.htm?spTabChangeable=0 Pilot Union saying CX is short about 1300 flight crews. CX is denying it. But either way, even of that number is exaggerated, just more evidences that CX is really short on flight crews, and they just can't be back to 1...

Re: Lynx Fleet and Network - 2024 (Lynx to cease operations as of February 26)

There is so much misunderstood about Canadian and U.S. airport financing. That CBC article is worthless. First, international carriers are not advantaged when operating in Canada because pay the same nav fees and airport fees that Canadian carriers do. Second, U.S. Passenger Facility Charges (PFCs)...

Re: Washington, DC (BWI / DCA / IAD) Aviation - 2024

Interesting thread regarding developments at BWI. Sad to see AC drop BWI-YYZ which I remember flying when GX was on the go and B6 drop BWI-BOS which was 6 daily at one point. AA has dropped JFK, PHX, and PHL over the years and DL is also barely above 20 daily departures in the summer. At least UA s...

Re: Rumors of Possible New United (UA) Hub

planemanofnz wrote:

Ziyulu wrote:

What about MCI? It's in the middle of the US, so 95% of flights can be within 4 hours.

So basically, the same as DEN then ... why would they?

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

Air Japan third destination will be Singapore - effective April 26 - 5x weekly https://www.flyairjapan.com/en/notice/56 So basically they're matching Zipair's short/medium haul network - ICN, BKK, SIN. Afterward it'll be HNL then MNL? I don't think JAL will eventually drop out HND-JFK for HND-MIA. ...

Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

The one aspect where again Europe holds the upper hand is on the point of converting people and convincing them to fly, and this is one area where I think the US market lacks and I can't quite understand why, perhaps the Americans on this thread could comment - much of the joy of Ryanair to us Euro...

Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

The one aspect where again Europe holds the upper hand is on the point of converting people and convincing them to fly, and this is one area where I think the US market lacks and I can't quite understand why, perhaps the Americans on this thread could comment - much of the joy of Ryanair to us Euro...

Re: Why is Ryanair able to post record profits, but US ULCCs struggle?

So, that's why the US LCC are not able to replicate the European success.. at least not to the same degree. Breeze is the only US ULCC that is trying to do more of what the original European LCC model was (non-competitive point to point routes), so perhaps they will be successful (albeit they have ...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

If you look at the 15 biggest full-service carriers in East Asia not including China (CX, NH, JL, KE, OZ, CI, BR, PR, VN, TG, MH, SQ, GA, QF, NZ) one thing stands out; CX's current operational fleet is larger than the others capacity wise (nearly 4000 more seats than ANA, and nearly 6000 more seats...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

If you look at the 15 biggest full-service carriers in East Asia not including China (CX, NH, JL, KE, OZ, CI, BR, PR, VN, TG, MH, SQ, GA, QF, NZ) one thing stands out; CX's current operational fleet is larger than the others capacity wise (nearly 4000 more seats than ANA, and nearly 6000 more seats...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

Hong Kong isn't coming back to pre COVID regardless of the spin from Swire HQ. CX doesn't just serve HKG O&D though - there's all the connectivity to the rest of Asia/Australia/NZ, etc. When many of the Southeast Asian carriers continue to struggle (think PR which has yet to return to Europe, N...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

Re; Why JAL left AMS and other destinations, When JAL declared bankruptcy, the government had stated that some routes were to be cut. Which routes were decided based on: 1. Yield is less than 10% 2. Direct competition with ANA 3. Only minimal presence at the airport 4. Not a strategic route for all...

Re: Cathay and Korean Air aircraft collide in CTS

Ziyulu wrote:

I find it funny how the article states one aircraft was damaged. Wouldn't both be damaged in a collision?

Re: Cathay and Korean Air aircraft collide in CTS

I don't want to sound bad/judgemental but two major human-error caused incidents make Japan's aviation industry safety attitude sound questionable to me. Ground collision during taxiing happens fairly often. Literally there was one in ORD Sunday evening (involving another Japanese carrier also...NH...

Re: Cathay and Korean Air aircraft collide in CTS

gatibosgru wrote:

Weather in Hokkaido looks pretty snowy. Doesn’t look too great for the 777 tail. Glad no one was hurt.

Re: Why don't all the ULCC make an alliance?

Looking outside the US, there is/was the Value Alliance in Asia, not sure if it's still going however as their website doesn't seem to work anymore. Doesn't seems like anything ever really happened other than being an alliance in name only anyway. Would WN be considered a ULCC? They are at best con...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

Given the distances many Cathay A350's fly to Europe can we expect them to return to every secondary smaller city they flew to before the Pandemic ? The main problem right now is not so much demand, but the fact that CX is having a big pilot shortage problem. Just this two months they have to cance...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

Given the distances many Cathay A350's fly to Europe can we expect them to return to every secondary smaller city they flew to before the Pandemic ? The main problem right now is not so much demand, but the fact that CX is having a big pilot shortage problem. Just this two months they have to cance...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

A large and ongoing migration wave from HK to UK, of which a not insignificant amount will settle in Birmingham So low-yielding VFR traffic will be the base for this route? Seems like a recipe for disaster ... Hong Kong that is increasingly sucked into Mainland's grip, means less business links bet...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

Birmingham Airport is understood to be in talks with Cathay Pacific and Finnair over potential expansion into Asia. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-birmingham-airport-asia-routes-28402234?fbclid=IwAR2wnGpGsj8L2o-hSGqj7AvvSqhjd3U12Og70pxBgybJ8TXBW1G5o3Kgv2Y BHX shall be a nic...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

While 777-300 are getting old, not sure they fall in category as "mid-size", thought something like787-10 likely have great economics for regional missions. They can always reconfigure some of their older 77W IMHO if they need that capacity. Those 773A are mainly going to Japan plus ICN/B...

Re: DL to Taiwan

Not saying you're wrong, but then why is UA re-launching routes into HKG, like LAX-HKG? Diminished demand does not equal no demand, and a lot of that demand diminished before the pandemic. In which case, why should UA be the only US3 carrier capable of tapping that demand - why should DL not give i...

Re: DL to Taiwan

It was said Delta would not return to TPE in order to not offend Beijing while they were trying to establish as close of a relationship as possible with MU. (Remember at one point that included Taiwan as part of China on a map. They were kowtowing for an airline.) I will say I am surprised TPE woul...

Re: DL to Taiwan

I doubt we will see DL add SEA - SYD, however, SEA - HKG could be a possibility. No, I think that ship sailed for a very very long time, if ever again. At the time they pulled it last back in 2018, senior leaders said HKG was a money pit and had been every time they'd tried it through history. And ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2023

Cathay positioned an A330 (B-HYQ) out of ASP today. I didn’t realise they still had aircraft in storage. Does anyone know how many aircraft are left in ASP, both for Cathay specifically and more broadly? If Planespotter is correct, CX still has 4x 773A (B-HNE, HNN, HNO, HNP), 3x 77W (B-KPD, KPF, KQ...

Re: EVA Air plans to order A350-1000 and A321neo

With China Airlines ordering 787-9 to replace their A330-300 fleet earlier this year one has to wonder how much the EVA deal was for "revenge". Could Airbus let a large Taiwanese order "get away" ? Was Boeing complacent since EVA ordered 5 787-9 in March, thinking they had a 777...

Re: EVA Air plans to order A350-1000 and A321neo

Could they be looking at merging with Starlux? I thought Starlux was essentially born out of a family feud within the Evergreen group. If Starlux last that long...they're having lots of growing pain right now. With China Airlines ordering 787-9 to replace their A330-300 fleet earlier this year one ...

Re: EVA Air plans to order A350-1000 and A321neo

I dont see any Taiwan carrier needing a 779, not with Starlux in the picture. Pre covid, BR had far more RPKs than CI running those 77Ws across pacific etc to more destinations and more frequencies, yet their revenue from pax was not proportionately that much greater and with CIs huge cargo revenue...

Re: Most interesting large U.S. cities to visit.

From a viewpoint of a first-time visitor, it would be NYC, Washington DC, Boston, Greater LA, and SF. Going to west coast, Las Vegas / Grand Canyon can also be thrown in as the side trip. Philly can also be half-day visit on the way from NYC to DC. For people that have been those places, Seattle and...

Re: Gamers, have you ever fallen back in love with a game?

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The Command and Conquer series..

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2023

Going by google flights, it looks like CX is significantly adding to its USA operations by NS24 season:- HKG-JFK: increase from 15-17x weekly to 3x daily (from mid-Dec) HKG-LAX: increase from 1-2x daily to 3x daily HKG-SFO: increase from 1-2x to 3x daily HKG-ORD: increase from 3x weekly to 1x daily...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2023

And as for an untapped market, Brunei, could we ever see JL or NH launch NRT/HND-BWN? This could possibly attract more Bruneians to visit Japan and maybe even connect to the US especially West Coast destinations. Small market....BI (Royal Brunei) existing flight to NRT (4/wk) is good enough for con...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

Every other US gateway with multiple daily flights on AA/JL, splits the flights between HND and NRT, which is a vital necessity given JAL's split-hub operations even more so than for ANA. (This is why I never for a moment believed that AA was going to apply for DFW#2.) Five years ago, this mattered...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2023

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/cathay-pacific-buys-32-airbus-a321-200neo-aircraft-466-billion-3808641 Cathay Pacific placed an order for another 32 A321NEO's for the group airlines https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-09-cathay-group-orders-32-a320neo-family-aircraft See...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2023

Seems the once-all-widebody CX will be sporting many narrowbodies in its own livery across Asian skies in the years ahead. A fair percentage of them are probably going to UO, though. With the order being for planes that will be delivered up to 2029, some will also be replacement of A320/321ceo, whi...