Week in Roundup 13-19 Jan
The Week in Review
SpiceJet signed a three-year maintenance agreement for its 737NGs with MAS Engineering.
Colombo Bandaranaike Airport reported its highest monthly cargo volume in Dec ’09, a total of 16,070 tonnes with SriLankan, Emirates and Cathay Pacific leading.
JAL finalised documents for filing for bankruptcy and is planned to file for bankruptcy today ( 19th ).
Tiger Airways reportedly raised USD178m from its IPO last week.
The new Alitalia celebrated its first year of operations.
Nigerian Government announced new draft legislation to deploy Sky Marshals on US bound flights.
AeroMexico ordered five 787s to be used on long-haul flights.
Virgin Atlantic cancelled remaining orders for six A340-600s after firming up an order for A330-300s.
BlueWings suspended operations on 13th Jan.
Route News
Philippine Airlines will resume flights to Riyadh, from Manila on 28 Mar. The service will initially operate four-times weekly with a 747.
Qatar Airways will launch 4 weekly Doha – Copenhagen service with A319 from 30 Mar.
Singapore Airlines will replace its 12 weekly 777-300ER Zurich service with a daily A380 service from 28 Mar.
Royal Air Maroc will launch 2 weekly Casablanca – Warsaw onboard 737 from 30 Mar.
KLM will launch 3 weekly Amsterdam – Hangzhou service onboard 777-200ER from 8 May.
DELTA will officially retire its NW code on 5 Sep.
SriLankan Airlines has increased its Beijing flights to four-times weekly.
( Route news via Airline Route Updates )