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The State, Commerce and Transportation Departments closed the docket on Aug. 3, but the public is welcome to comment on any existing documents until Aug. 24.
The New York-based LCC declined to give specific numbers on passenger loads and yields for Mint, the 16-seat premium cabin available on flights connecting New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) with Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A major sticking point, they said, is that the union wants a $348 million ratification bonus for pilots, at a three-year cost to the company of more than $1 billion.
Under the plan, on March 22 Virgin Australia will withdraw from its routes between Bali, Indonesia, and Australian cities Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth.
With this strategy, Hainan Airlines evidently aims to fill market demand it calculates as being unserved by Shanghai-based China Eastern, which has been slow in expanding its international business.
“Union leadership is reflecting on the tentative agreement,” Southwest spokesman Bob Hughes told Aviation Daily. “We will resume talks when they’re ready.”
CEO David Maimon said the board had “authorized the company to hold talks with Boeing over the acquisition of widebody Dreamliner aircraft for the purchase and lease of 15 planes in the next five years.”
Asia-Pacific airlines are forced to seek closer JV ties with U.S. carriers to gain better access to domestic U.S. routes that have become costly under traditional codeshare deals, Dunkerley said at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit in Sydney.
Plans for the service follow what the Taiwanese airline reports as success on seasonal services to Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, and Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand.
