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Pacific Airlines offers super-cheap flights

Prahok @ December 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

VietNamNet Bridge reports that Pacific Airlines is offering 100,000 one-way tickets at discount rates for domestic flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Hai Phong to promote its new route. Prices start at just VND15,000 (not including fees, taxes etc) one-way. Under the latest promotional campaign, tickets must be booked via the Pacific Airlines website [...]

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Adam Air to expand fleet to 50-60 jets in next five years

Prahok @ December 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Antara reports that Adam Air is embarking on a fleet expansion plan that could see it flying 50 to 60 jets within five years. “We plan to add more planes to our fleet, around four or five additional aircraft each year. So in five years we will have about 50 to 60 aircraft. Right now [...]

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Vietnam Airlines to buy 30 Airbus

Prahok @ December 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Reuters reports that Vietnam Airlines on Thursday said it would sign a contract to buy 10 Airbus A350-900XWB passenger jets and 20 single-aisle A321 jets on Friday. “This is part of the agreement reached earlier,” an official of Vietnam Airlines said. In early October, the airline signed a draft agreement to buy the 30 Airbus [...]

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Orient Thai plans US$2.5b Boeing order

Prahok @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Reuters reports that Orient Thai Airlines plans to order 20 new aircraft, eight Boeing 787-9s and 12 Boeing 737-900s, at a cost of US$2.5b in April 2008, chairman Udom Tantiprasongchai said Wednesday. Delivery of the first plane was expected in 2011 and the new aircraft would replace ageing ones and expand its fleet to 30-35 [...]

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Tiger Airways to exercise option to buy 20 A320s

Prahok @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Ap reports that Tiger Airways will exercise an option to buy 20 more A320s to expand its Asia-Pacific network, the airline’s CE said Tuesday. “We are placing another firm major order for 20 Airbus planes. The group will have 70 Airbus planes by 2016,” Tiger Airways CE Tony Davis said at a briefing on the [...]

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Pacific Airlines begins Ho Chi Minh City to Hai Phong

Prahok @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Thanh Nien Daily reports that Pacific Airlines will launch the Ho Chi Minh City-Hai Phong flight route this week. The inaugural flight will take off on Friday at 12:15 p.m. from Saigon and at 4:45 p.m. from Hai Phong. The flights will run daily.

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Tiger considers Darwin to Clark

Prahok @ December 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Northern Territory News reports that Tiger may start a new route between Darwin and the Philippines. Tourism Minister Kon Vatskalis met Tiger CE Tony Davies in Singapore on Sunday evening. They discussed expanding services out of Darwin. “He didn’t make any promises,” Vatskalis said, “But we did talk about a possible Philippines service.”

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Jetstar’s Christmas treats

Prahok @ December 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Jetstar has just announced their Xmas “specials”, including:
Phuket from $15
Bangkok from $25
Phnom Penh from $39
Siem Reap from $39
Ho Chi Minh City from $45
Jakarta from $48
Surabaya from $48
Macau from $48
Manila from $75
Denpasar from $88
Hong Kong from $109
Taipei from $109
Rangoon from $109
To take advantage of these deals, you need to book by 16 December and travel between [...]

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Orient Thai to fly to Nepal from December 18

Prahok @ December 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Kantipur reports that Orient Thai Airlines is beginning thrice-weekly flights between Bangkok and Kathmandu from December 18. “The flights will be operated with 170-seater MD-82 aircraft,” said Ajay Simha of Orient Asia International, the general sales agent of the airline in Nepal.

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Firefly year-end sale — tickets from RM9.99

Prahok @ December 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Bernama reports that Firefly is having a year-end sale on all its destinations departing from Penang and Subang with tickets priced from RM9.99. The destinations are Langkawi, Kuantan, Kota Baharu, Terengganu, Johor Baharu, Ko Samui and Phuket. The offer is available until December 31.

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