Thursday, July 14, 2016

Emirates reduces long haul network operations

Due to primarily lower than anticipated revenue as a result of yield drop in many long haul market segments, Emirates has officially announced major network reductions across its network which are as follows:

BKK - frequencies reduced from 7 to 6 daily nonstop effective 01AUG

FCO - frequencies reduced from 3 to 2 daily nonstop effective 01OCT

OSL - frequencies reduced from daily to 5 weekly effective 01SEP

KHI - frequencies reduced from 7 to 5 daily effective 01AUG

SAW - all nonstop flights suspended effective 03AUG

LIS - frequencies reduced from double daily to daily nonstop effective 01SEP

LED -  frequencies reduced from daily to 5 weekly effective 02AUG

LAD - frequencies reduced from daily to 5 weekly effective 03AUG

CGK - frequencies reduced from 3 to 2 daily nonstop effective 01OCT



Farnoborough 2016 aircraft orders

The 2016 Farnborough Air Show which took place in the UK this week revealed 4 major aircraft orders worth mentioning as the industry is on the edge as a result of falling yields and revenues worldwide. 

The 4 main orders placed at the show were as follows:


  1. Virgin Atlantic announced a deal to purchase 12 Airbus A350-1000s which have been ear marked to replace their B747-400 / A340-600 fleet at both LHR + LGW. 
  2. Air Asia (the main Malaysia franchise) announced a mega deal to purchase 100 Airbus A321NEOs to be configured with 236 seats
  3. Egypt Air placed an order for 9 new Boeing 737-800NGs 
  4. Norwegian exchanged a previous order of 100 A320NEOs to include 31 A321NEOs part of the deal. It stated that it shall use these aircraft on Europe-U.S. East Coast trans-atlantic flights