Ansett International is to launch four-times-weekly Melbourne-Hong Kong flights using Boeing 767-300s from1 November. The carrier has won regulatory approval to operate the flights for three months, but hopes to secure permanent authority for the route. It already operates to Hong Kong from Sydney.
Source: Airline Business
Major US carrier Delta Air Lines continues experiencing major network disruptions related to the global technology outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations on the “busiest travel weekend of the summer”.
US airlines are working to get their operations back into gear after a global computer outage forced some carriers to halt all departures overnight.
Virgin Atlantic will drop its Shanghai service this winter after 25 years as it further cuts its Asia-Pacific network amid the longer flying times necessitated by not being able to overfly Russia.
