Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Malaysia Airlines increases Austral-Asia capacity in Summer 2018

Malaysia Airlines has officially announced that it will be aggressively increasing capacity in key markets where there is both high volume passenger plus cargo demand from the on set of the IATA S18 season. The main highlights are as follows:

ADL - frequencies increased from 4 to 5 weekly using an A333

DPS - capacity increased from triple daily B738 to daily A332 + double daily B738

ICN - frequencies increased from 10 to 12 weekly using an A330

DAC - frequencies increased from 2 to 3 daily effective 01AUG i.e. daily A332 + double daily B738

PVG - capacity increased to double daily A330s

PER - frequencies increased from daily to 12 weekly B738s

NRT - frequencies from 10 to 12 weekly using an A330

Singapore Airlines increases Auckland frequencies

Singapore Airlines has officially announced that due to rising demand both from its home hub base as well as from Europe especially UK for its Auckland bound services, it shall be increasing frequencies as a result from the on set of the IATA W18 season. 

Currently, SQ operates to AKL daily nonstop using an A380, however from 28OCT these will be boosted to double daily i.e. daily A380 + daily B77W.