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International Version of the bimonthly newsletter - September/October Edition

New Johannesburg Flights!

6th September 2019, Johannesburg - "Johannesburg will complete our aspiration to fly to places from all 6 destinations, and today I am proud to announce that we have done it!" announced Mr Li Mingxiang, in a press conference with airport officials and the city mayor, Herman Mashaba.
The announcement was made at a press conference, in which Mr Li Mingxiang, CEO of Phoenix Airlines, signed an agreement with the representatives from Airports Company South Africa to launch flights from China to the airport. In the agreement, Phoenix Airline will be given landing slots over the next year for operations into OR Tambo International Airport. The first Phoenix Airlines flight between China and Johannesburg will be from Shanghai Pudong, which is Phoenix Airlines' biggest hub. "We are pleased to welcome flights connecting Johannesburg to Shanghai, China's major financial hub. With this flight, it can help to increase the connectivity between East Asia and South Africa, allowing passengers from East Asia to connect to other cities in Africa here in Johannesburg, as well as allow passengers from South Africa and surrounding nations to get to places in China and East Asia," said Mr Mashaba. "We hope that this would mark the first of Phoenix Airlines' many operations in to South Africa."
Mr Li confirmed the flight schedule for this flight. "We would be operating this flight with our Airbus 350XWB aircraft. The higher capacity A350-1000 will be flying this route, with a schedule that times in perfectly to some of our operations in Shanghai Pudong. Departing Shanghai after lunch time, it arrives in Johannesburg at around 9.30pm, with the return leaving before 11pm to reach Shanghai Pudong by 6.15pm. This would coincide with our evening block of domestic and regional flights, connecting passengers to other places in the region."
The schedule for the flight is as follows:
PF0461 PVG 1350 JNB 2125 351 D
PF0462 JNB 2240 PVG 1815 351 D

Honolulu, here we come!

Some of our Phoenix Club members, as well as selected passengers travelling on tour groups knew that we started a one month trial for flights to Honolulu. The result? The demand for flights to Honolulu is so unexpectedly high!
Originally, Phoenix Airlines launched charter flights to Honolulu for selected tour groups, who wanted an opportunity to fly to Honolulu and the Hawaii islands. Later, this was the route approved by the US Department of Transport for the additional flights to bring back China citizens and citizens of other East Asian nations from the tropical storms of the East Coast. However, with many Phoenix Club members begging Phoenix Airlines to launch the route officially to Honolulu, we asked for additional flights to Hawaii. The stunning demand for flights there forced our hand, as we even had to launch up to 6 times frequency between Beijing and Honolulu for certain time periods!
At Phoenix Airlines, we want to ensure that we fly routes with demand. We started flights to holiday islands like the Maldives and Bali of Indonesia because Chinese citizens are flying there for holiday. Noting that the Golden Week is coming, we could not resist your demand for flights to Hawaii, so here we are! 
Ending the trial period one week in advance, we have converted all our scheduled charters to scheduled flights. Yes, this would mean everyone and anyone could book flights to Honolulu with immediate effect. Some of our routes, such as flights from Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Beijing will continue. Other cities like Xi'an and Hangzhou will see flights to Honolulu. You may take a look at our schedule below. All flights stated are available for reservation from today, so do visit our website to book these flights to Honolulu!

Country in focus: United States

As we celebrate the launch of flights to Honolulu, we take this time to take stock of our American operations. Phoenix Airlines is proud to be serving over 10 destinations in the United States, from 10 cities in China, with more to come as Phoenix Airlines pushes for a US-China "Open Skies" Agreement.
In recent months, demand for travel to the American continent has been increasing. Regardless of point-to-point demand from China, or the demand coming from transiting passengers, we are recieving numerous requests for flights into US. Choosing certain cities over others is difficult, considering that we have to apply to both CAAC and the US DoT for approval to launch routes. In the end, we had decided on few routes, and with approval from the authorities, expanded our US operations to this stage.
The US cities we serve from China are as follows: Honolulu, Seattle-Tacoma, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix Sky Harbour, Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago O'Hare, Indianapolis, New York-JFK, and Atlanta. Joining this list will be Washington Dulles, as PEK-IAD flights will begin on the 30th September 2019. (Bookings have already started! Do visit our website to book tickets between Shanghai, Beijing and Washington.)

{Route map updated later}

Phoenix Airlines serve the following US cities:
TO: Seattle-Tacoma (SEA)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Shanghai Pudong (PVG) - Begins 30th September 2019

TO: Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)
Chengdu (CTU)

TO: Chicago O'Hare (ORD)
Chengdu (CTU)

TO: Los Angeles (LAX)
Shanghai Pudong (PVG)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Hangzhou (HGH) - Begins 23rd September 2019

TO: Atlanta (ATL)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Chengdu (CTU)
Guangzhou (CAN) - Begins 23rd September 2019

TO: San Francisco (SFO)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Guangzhou (CAN)

TO: New York-John F. Kennedy (JFK)
Shanghai Pudong (PVG)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Chengdu (CTU)
Guangzhou (CAN) - Begins 30th September 2019
Xiamen (XMN) - Begins 30th September 2019

TO: Indianapolis (IND)
Shanghai Pudong (PVG)
Beijing Capital (PEK)
Hangzhou (HGH)
Chengdu (CTU) - Begins 30th September 2019

TO: Phoenix Sky Harbour (PHX)
Shanghai Pudong (PVG)
Beijing Capital (PEK) - Begins 14th October 2019
Xiamen (XMN) - Begins 14th October 2019

TO: Washington Dulles (IAD)
Beijing Capital (PEK) - Begins 30th September 2019
Shanghai Pudong (PVG) - Begins 7th October 2019

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End of an era: Retirement of Super 70s

First Published: 18th Sept 2019 2.50pm UTC+8
Last Update: 26th Sept 2019 11.00am UTC+8

Phoenix Airlines today announced the impending retirement of the Super 70s from their fleet, ending the airline's short but important relationship with the type.
"Many people have asked us why we have decided to retire the fleet after such a short period. For us, we never intended to keep this old aircraft type for long. Utilising the aircraft to help us expand our operarions was our only motive. Though we intended to only retire the aircraft in 2026, moving the plans a whole 7 years ahead would help us to cut maintenance costs and proceed with further fleet rationalisation, reducing the number of aircraft types in our fleet," said Mr Li Mingxiang, CEO of Phoenix Airlines. "We will take this opportunity to stock take and kickstart this process, now that we have stabilised and our operations are going strong."

Due to the retirement of the aircraft, flights operated by DC8 will be replaced by other aircraft. Details of the changed flight is stated below. Affected passengers have been contacted by email. We would like passengers to leave their contact number by the "Manage My Booking" function to get the latest updates to their flights, especially if they are travelling between now and 30th September on the below flights.

SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENTS
1. Beijing - Tel Aviv
With effect 20th September (21st for Tel Aviv), slight adjustments:
PF397 PEK 1940 TLV 2255 742
PF398 TLV 0030 PEK 1345 742

2. Beijing - Helsinki
With effect 19th September, the flight will be shifted to the afternoon, instead of evening, from Beijing and to 7.25pm from Helsinki, instead of 11.10pm:
PF81 PEK 1530 HEL 1750 742
PF82 HEL 1925 PEK 0745 (+1) 742

3. Beijing - Jeju
With effect 20th September, it would be shifted approximately 3 hours earlier as follows:
PF657 PEK 1155 CJU 1455 32B
PF658 CJU 1540 PEK 1640 32B

4. Beijing - Osaka
With effect 20th September, the 1 frequency in the afternoon will be adjusted to a 2 frequency schedule, 1 in the morning, 1 at night.
Original:
PF691 PEK 1255 KIX 1630 D6P
PF692 KIX 1715 PEK 1850 D6P
New:
PF691 PEK 0500 KIX 0840 32B
PF693 PEK 1730 KIX 2110 32B

PF692 KIX 0925 PEK 1105 32B
PF694 KIX 2155 PEK 2335 32B
Note: Passengers with a valid ticket to Osaka would be asked to pick one of the alternatives, subject to first come first served availability.

5. Shanghai (Pudong) - Baku
This route will be not operate on the 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th Sept. Affected passengers have been informed of their alternatives. It will continue to operate daily from 27th Sept. Slight adjustments as follows:
PF281 PVG 1935 GYD 2315 359
PF282 GYD 0040 PVG 1220 359

6. Shanghai (Pudong) - Kiev
Slight adjustments for flights from the 20th September 2019, as follows:
PF91 PVG 1945 KBP 2320 742
PF92 KBP 0050 PVG 1425 742 (First affected flight departs Kiev in the morning of 21st imstead of in the night of 20th)

7. Shanghai (Pudong) - Vladivostok
Slight adjustments with effect 20th September:
PF745 PVG 1310 VVO 1745 32A
PF746 VVO 1815 PVG 1850 32A

8. Shanghai (Pudong) - Seoul (Gimpo)
Flights have been shifted to the morning with effect 20th September:
PF671 PVG 0850 GMP 1125 32A
PF672 GMP 1155 PVG 1230 32A
Note: Passengers booked on flights to Gimpo are required to confirm if they will be proceeeding with this new flight or to proceed with our various alternative flights between Shanghai and Seoul (including Hongqiao-Gimpo and Pudong-Incheon). For passengers flying on or after 7th October, we will be launching an evening return flight between Gimpo and Pudong, with schedule to be confirmed after approval from the authorities is granted. You may choose to be placed on the waiting list for that flight, with priority given to passengers affected by the DC8 retirement.

9. Shanghai (Pudong) - Nursultan
With effect from 20th September, slight adjustments as follows:
PF287 PVG 1920 TSE 2325 32A
PF288 TSE 0005 PVG 0820 32A

10. Shanghai (Pudong) - Penang
With effect 20th September, flights shifted to the evening as follows:
PF121 PVG 1840 PEN 2340 32B
PF122 PEN 0030 PVG 0520 32B

11. Shanghai (Pudong) - Ahmedabad
With effect 21st September, flights will be shifted earlier as follows:
PF333 PVG 1600 AMD 1920 742
PF334 AMD 2050 PVG 0510 (+1) 742

12. Shanghai (Pudong) - Kolkata
With effect 22nd September, flights will be shifted earlier as follows:
PF315 PVG 0645 CCU 0830 742
PF316 CCU 1000 PVG 1645 742

13. Guangzhou - Cochin
14. Guangzhou - Bengaluru
These flights will remain as per schedule, flown by the DC8s, until 27th September. As we are unable to provide the alternative schedule as of press release, we REQUIRE ALL affected passeners to leave their handphone contact to faciliate communication of updates.
UPDATE: The replacement flights have been confirmed, with effect 28th September:
PF321 CAN 2030 COK 2315 781
PF322 COK 0030 CAN 0815 781
 
PF347 CAN 1020 BLR 1245 781
PF348 BLR 1400 CAN 2125 781

As we commemorate the DC8 and thank it for its service to the airline, we will be launching a special one-way flight from Shanghai to Urmuqi, and Urmuqi to Beijing. This flight will be made on the 29th September, with a scheduled departure time of 0810 from Shanghai, and a scheduled departure time of 1425 from Urmuqi. Passengers may book this flight on our website, under the "Super 70 send off" webpage.
(UPDATE) Confirmed flight details are as follows:
PF9070 PEK 0500 PVG 0650
PF70 PVG 0810 URC 1225
PF873 URC 1425 PEK 1745

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I just have to admire the sheer work you put in all these updates, keep it going!

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I just have to admire the sheer work you put in all these updates, keep it going!

Thanks! I just had to use factual information because I don't have time to come up with a story, though I may probably slow down with the rp as I get busy  Hope to get to work with you in character some time soon!

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凤凰航空集团正式改名为凤凰旅游集团，并收购红星航空及幸运旅行社

上海浦东 - 在上周六的联合会议上，凤凰航空集团股东们同意将集团名称改为凤凰旅游集团。股东们也在会议上通过收购红星航空与幸运旅行社两家公司的业务。
凤凰航空是在中国三大国航外，最大航空公司。红星航空是辽宁省最大的航空，在大连、沈阳及丹东都运营国内班次。凤凰航空在这次收购后会逐渐将红星航空的12架空中客机A320-200客机及3架空中客机A321neo客机融入凤凰航空。凤凰航空也将会接管红星航空的所有路线。另外，幸运旅行社的旅行业务将会继续在凤凰旅行集团下经营。幸运旅行社的所有业务将不受影响。

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Phoenix Airlines will open focus city in Dalian

With the acquisition of Red Star Airlines, Phoenix Airlines will expand on Red Star Airlines' operation in Dalian by opening a focus city there, increasing the number of domestic and international flights from Dalian. "The upgrading of Dalian to being a focus city for Phoenix Airlines shows the commitment we have to Liaoning Province. As we commemorate 70 years of the formation of the People's Republic of China tomorrow, we would like to take this opportunity to gift our fellow comrades of Liaoning with access to Phoenix Airlines and our excellent service. Phoenix Airlines will slowly take over all operations of Red Star Airlines, and will integrate the routes served by Red Star Airlines into our humongous network," said our CEO, Mr Li at the official ceremony.
Furthermore, as we expand our network through increase in destinations and frequency, Phoenix Airlines will be proceeding with a route renumbering process to ensure that the flight numbers are matched to our current operational system. Phoenix Airlines assures all customers that no other operational details will be affected, and they can check their updated flight numbers at the "Manage My Booking" section. Flight number changes begin from 29th November 2019, and passengers will be emailed about flight number changes.