Hainan Airlines

[Aceshigh]

Hainan would be an "obvious" fit with all other components already in place in terms of the airport relationship, marketing at both ends, travel agency tours eg Wendy Wu etc.

 

[User001]

The B787-8 is now confirmed on the Hainan website from 1st May.

 

[Dobbo]

Good to see, does this coincide with 5x weekly or is that for June?

 

[Aceshigh]

That looks like a net reduction in seats BUT hold this thought.

As they are getting more cuddly with MAG is it possible the net reduction "might" just be mopped up by say a 4 a week Shanghai instead?

Air China seem to have taken their eye off the ball and with seemingly a lot of horsetrading taking place re slots is it possible HU picked these up?

On the downside they may just be dazzled by acess to Heathrow.

Inscrutable!

 

[User001]

Flight goes 5 weekly in June and daily in July according to GDS.

 

[ethanegcc]

That looks like a net reduction in seats BUT hold this thought.

As they are getting more cuddly with MAG is it possible the net reduction "might" just be mopped up by say a 4 a week Shanghai instead?

Air China seem to have taken their eye off the ball and with seemingly a lot of horsetrading taking place re slots is it possible HU picked these up?

On the downside they may just be dazzled by acess to Heathrow.

Inscrutable!

Air China seem to have dropped PVG-MAN plans - but Hainan are expanding their footprint at PVG, with application for:

4fpw PVG-ZRH, 3fpw CTU-PVG-TIJ and 3fpw PVG-CTU-IKA. I would love a CTU-PVG-MAN. If slots really are the issue, why could BCN be launched, China Eastern expanding and Hainan also?

Let's remember as well that at smaller airports who have gained a PEK link and been successful (BOS), HU have also branched out to PVG-BOS, with two 787s on the ground at Boston some days.

 

[Dobbo]

The noises made by HU are positive and the service clearly attracts a lot of incoming custom. Let's get PEK daily and build from there...

 

[ethanegcc]

Yes, exactly. I will only be pleased though when the daily service is fully bookable on the Hainan website.

My point was that if slots are the issue at PVG, how can all these new routes be launching? And, also, that Hainan could be an option for a Shanghai link in the future, should they gain the rights to the route.

 

[User001]

Hainan now confirmed as daily from July 1st:

 

[Dobbo]

B787?

 

[User001]

Indeed.

 

[Dobbo]

Super stuff!

 

[Dobbo]

Routesonline snippet below.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38...irlines-s17-manchester-changes-as-of-17apr17/

 

[gonetech]

Bring on the Pandas! https://twitter.com/HainanAirlines/status/854794235350003712

 

[Dobbo]

Wow! B789s!

 

[bayer328]

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[bayer328]

I thought Hainan Airlines, were using B787-800.

 

[Dobbo]

So did I - it may just be an error by their social media team, or a one-off visit...

 

[ethanegcc]

They are making a pretty big deal of it being 789. It is great news and there is also news of a brand new business class product on their 787-9s beginning in May - a reverse herringbone product, with aisle access at every seat - this could attract even more business travellers to use the service. They are also introducing a new menu on the Manchester-Beijing route (see attached file), which *could* signify the brand new dreamliners being used on the route:[/ATTACH]View attachment 5016

 

[User001]

I'm not convinced. Given the same social media feed captioned a photo 'our B787-10 taking off from Beijing' (it's not in passenger service with any airline yet), I'm not putting my hopes up.

Website states B787-8 at the moment, so that's what Ill expect for now.