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On October 31, 2019, JAL released its financial results for the first half of fiscal year 2019. While the company recorded higher revenue than in the first half of the previous fiscal year, it experienced considerable decline in profits. The announcement comes just a couple of days after ANA revealed similar trends in its H1 […]

On October 31, 2019, the Vietnamese low-cost airline VietJet has announced that it will add 20 Airbus A321XLR aircraft into its fleet with deliveries starting from 2023. The announcement comes just a couple of days after IndiGo placed an order for the long-range narrow-body aircraft in one of Airbus’ largest aircraft orders to date. VietJet

While the schedules for AirAsia X’s upcoming flights to Naha in Okinawa were loaded into the airline’s reservation system earlier, it officially announced them yesterday. The flight will be an extension of one of the airline’s existing Kuala Lumpur – Taipei rotations. D7384/385: Kuala Lumpur – Taipei – Naha and Back AirAsia X will start

Mitsubishi Aircraft announced today that Trans States Holdings, one of the manufacturer’s few customers, has cancelled its SpaceJet order. The company had the larger SpaceJet M90 – which is not compliant with scope clauses in U.S. airline pilot contracts – on order. Trans States Holdings Cancels Order of Up to 100 SpaceJets Trans States Holdings,

According to Nikkei and a variety of other Japanese media, ANA has decided to cut its Japan – Hong Kong capacity considerably between December 1, 2019, and March 28, 2020.  This news comes on the same day as a South China Morning Post’s article reporting that United is seeing some recovery on its routes to

On October 30, 2019, Singapore Airlines announced that it has signed a new partnership agreement with Malaysia Airlines based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two back in June. Under the new partnership, the two airlines are planning to increase the number of codeshare flights, and even share revenue on flights between the

As initially reported by Executive Traveller, Qantas is now offering paid access to its London Heathrow lounge. The offer extends even to non-oneworld passengers. Today, a Qantas spokesman revealed further details about the offer, including the fact that it has now been rolled out to other lounges – including the first class lounge in Los

Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Skymark Airlines plans to get re-listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). According to the report, the airline has submitted an application to the exchange on October 25, 2019. The date of the potential re-listing is not known yet. Skymark Airlines Plans to Be Re-Listed on the TSE Skymark Airlines’

It’s been known for a while that JAL will be launching flights from Tokyo Narita to Vladivostok and Bengaluru in 2020. Today, it revealed the schedules of those flights. Perhaps the most surprising part of the announcement is that it will become the first Japanese airline to serve Vladivostok – an achievement that ANA was