TOKYO, Jan. 9, 2020 – All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest and 5-Star airline for seven consecutive years, will be launching the third of its specially designed “FLYING HONU” Airbus A380s, allowing for ANA to offer both daily flights between Narita and Honolulu on these unique aircraft. ANA currently provides two flights daily on the…
WestJet Airlines (WS/WJA) have today announced they will commence direct scheduled flights between Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ) in Canada and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) in the United Kingdom. The first departure from Halifax will be on Friday 5th June 2020, returning from Manchester on Saturday 6th June 2020. The route will be operated using WestJet…
Primera Air Ceases Operation After 14 years of operation, Primera Air today announced it would cease operations with immediate effect on the 2nd October 2018. This closure applies to both arms of the Primera Air business, Primera Air Scandinavia (IATA:PF, ICAO:PRI) and PrimeraAir Nordic (IATA:6F, ICAO:PRW). Over the years Primera Air had established themselves as…
Lion Air of Indonesia have recently recommenced Boeing 747-400 operations. The last remaining aircraft in their fleet is PK-LHG. This aircraft entered storage at Kualanamu International Airport (KNO/WIMM), Indonesia in March 2017. In November 2017 PK-LHG was transferred to Soekarno–Hatta International Airport (CGK/WIII) until May 2018 when the airframe returned to the sky operating to…
Air Belgium Air Belgium is a new airline which aims to launch commercial flights out of Charleroi Airport in Belgium. Once dubbed ‘South’ Brussels by Ryanair the airport has seen significant expansion and growth over the years and Air Belgium are looking to capitalise on this within such close proximity to the capital Brussels. Hong…
New Saudia Arabian Airlines Riyadh to Manchester service is due to begin on the 23rd June 2017. We understand that the aircraft type assigned to the route will be the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Introduction will bring Saudia operations at Manchester to daily, in addition to the existing Jeddah to Manchester sectors. Saudia only recently increased the frequency of the JED-MAN route…
A350 flights begin into Manchester Airport in the UK. Singapore Airlines scheduled equipment change on the SIN-MAN-IAH route from a 77W to the A350 began earlier this week. The first service to MAN was operated on the 17th January 2017. The v1images team paid a visit to Manchester on the 21st January 2017 to check the new…