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British Airways will be downgrading A380 service in October from 5x weekly to 4x weekly. The 747-400 will operate 10x weekly. British Airways has stopped 747-400 service to SFO. BA 285/284 will be operated by 772/77W. BA287/286 will be operated daily by the A380 Cathay Pacific has added 3x extra weekly flights to the current 14x weekly flights operating on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, now up to 21x weekly. Starting December 20th Qantas Airways will launch 6x weekly flights between Sydney and San Francisco aboard the 747-400 Started Starting December 12th China Eastern will upgrade SFO service to the 777-300ER from the A330-200. (Revised) China Eastern will do a mixture of operates on board the A330-200 and 777-300ER due to a shortage in aircraft China Eastern has started Qingdao service on the A330-200 Copa Airlines on September 17th will operate 7x weekly Panama City-San Francisco aboard the 737-800 aircraft-Route Launched Copa to add a second daily flight in W17, will operate year round, SAS starting after October 25th will operate 7x weekly year around from the original 6x weekly flights-Started KLM this winter will be flying the A330 7x weekly instead of the usually 6x weekly during the winter- Discontinued- KLM has started daily 747-400 service with 2x weekly 787-9s. This was the final season with the KLM A330. Virgin Atlantic starting October 25th will fly 14x weekly instead of 12x weekly. VS19/20 will be operated on the A340-600 and VS41/42 will be on board Virgin's brand new 787-9-Started-Note Virgin Atlantic has ended B747-400 service to San Francisco This winter Air New Zealand will add 2x weekly flights to the current 7x weekly. The 2 extra flights will be aboard the 777-200ER Discontinued Starting on March 20th jetBlue will upgrade 1 of the 3 daily flights to Boston-Logan on the Mint configured A321s. Following April 19th 2 of the 3 daily flights will be operated by the Mint A321s Started Korean Air to start 747-8i service 4x weekly starting November 1st. December 3rd 74H goes daily replacing 77W-Started Korean adds more weekly flights in S17 on 77W Air France will be operating the 777-200ER and occasional 777-300ER for this Winter season replacing the A380-800 until the Spring. A380 service started.No night flight for the Winter season (Operated by the 777-200ER, discontinued for the Winter.) Discountinued Wow Air, an Iceland based LCC, will begin service to SFO in June 2016 aboard an all Economy A330-300 which seats 342 people. This route will be 5x weekly and the inbound aircraft will over night at SFO for 18 hours before leaving the next day (Started) Wow Air goes daily is S17, flights arrive 2000, depart 2230 Air Berlin will start SFO service 4x weekly starting May 6th 2016 aboard the A330-200 (Started) Air Berlin in S17 will add daily DUS (Previously 4x weekly) and adding Berlin (4x weekly) Both to be operated Year round Fiji Airways will launch SFO service twice weekly aboard the A330-200 aircraft. This new route will operate from June to January.Started Starting year round in June17 Thomas Cook (Tui) plans to operate 2 weekly Manchester UK to SFO starting May 2017 aboard the A330-200 Virgin Atlantic planes 3x weekly A330-300 service from Manchester UK to SFO starting in March 2017 Started JAL changes Night Ops HND service to daytime service in W16 Finnair adds seasonal June-September service from Helsenki to SFO 3x weekly on the A330-300 in S17 China Airlines stating 10x weekly service with A350-900XWB, replacing B777-300ER from May17. |
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United continuing to try and launch second daily flight to Shanghai (PVG) aboard the 3-class 777-200ER. Update United has canceled planes for the 7x weekly flights to Shanghai. Update 2 United to operate 2x daily 787-9 to PVG in S17 Virgin America launching Honolulu(Started) and Maui(Started) aboard the A320SL aircraft operating 7 weekly flights United has changed flight numbers for select Europe routes. SFO-FRA-SFO is now UA58/59 (Was UA903/902), LHR-SFO is now UA949 (UA931) and CDG-SFO is now UA984 (Was UA991) United will have Copa Airlines codeshare partnership flight numbers on routes from San Francisco to Anchorage, Arcata/Eureka, Boise, Eugene, Fresno, Honolulu, Kona, Medford, Pasco, Phoenix, Portland (OR), Sacromento, Salt Lake City and Seattle United to fly 787-9 to Tokyo Haneda and Taipei from Spring/Summer 2016 and year round Started United to fly 787-9 to Seoul from August 1st 2016 Pushed back until further notice United to fly the 787 to Xi'an China from May 8th 2016 3 times weekly aboard the 787-8 for the summer season (Started) United to fly to Tel Aviv Israel on March 30th 2016 3 times weekly aboard the 787-9 Started- To operated 777-200ER from June 6th 2016 to August 1st 2016. United to fly to Auckland New Zealand on July 1st 2016 3 times weekly on the 787-8. Starting in late October the route will go daily on the 787-9 Started Route now seasonal October-March 777/787 United will launch non stop SFO to Singapore Changi starting June 1st with the 787-9 (Started) United to launch 3x weekly service to Hangzhou China onboard the 787-9. During winter months the route will be operated by the 787-8. Started United to use the 787-9 on SFO-LHR (UAL901/900) from April 5th 2016 to May 24th 2016. The route will go back to the 747 and 777 combination afterwards (Started/ended) United to fly year LHR service with 787-8 and 777-200 United to operate 777-200 to KIX in W16Now 787-9 United to operate 787-8 to CDG replacing 777-200 in W16 Now 787-9 United to operate 787-9 to CTU replacing 787-8 in S17 United to operate 747-400 to TPE replacing 787-9 in S16 United to operate 787-8 to Munich (seasonal) from May-October 17 |
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