Originally Posted by
moondog
I saw an interview transcript from one of China Eastern's operations people last month. The gist of it was that their base airports are all capacity constrained (mostly staffing related), so they are forced to pick and choose which flights to add and when. I'm guessing the trunk routes are substantially more profitable than SE Asia.
That said, MU announced some new flights yesterday. Some highlights:
- Daily flight from PVG to TSA (Taipei)
- 4 flights per day PVG to Macau (not sure how many of these are new)
- Additional daily flight PVG - HKG (for a total of 3 daily)
- 3X per week flight PVG - MLE (Maldives)
- 3X per week PVG - Dubai
- 2X per week PVG - Phnom Penh
- Daily flight PVG - Manila (time sucks though)
- Daily flight PVG - SIN (not sure if it's daily or 5X / week, source is confusing)
Notably, no additions to US flights yet, but I see this as a good sign.
Also, source mentions revival of catering capabilities in New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Frankfurt, Rome, Budapest, Dubai so food is set to improve.
Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VG5o4Tqjy1f1UqfAmD0XPQ