UP FR ONT
WIN LOUNGE ACCESS AND A HOTEL STAY
THIS MONTH’S prizes come from global airport hospitality leader, Plaza Premium Group. T e world's largest airport lounge network, Plaza Premium Lounge spans across more than 30 international airports globally with the latest location opened in Langkawi, while the group’s transit hotel concept, Aerotel, serves travellers in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Cebu, Muscat, Abu Dhabi and Rio de Janeiro. Combining airport meet-and-greet service Allways and its portfolio of Airport Dining concepts, the group operates more than 160 locations in 44 international airports around the world, serving 14 million travellers annually.
For more details and to enter, visit
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Three winners this month will each receive a one-year Plaza Premium Lounge Gift Card valid for ten complimentary visits to any lounge in the group’s network; and one 12-hour stay in a Double Plus Room at any Aerotel transit hotel in the group’s network.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY ISSUE COMPETITION WINNERS: Eunice Tan (Singapore) won a three-night stay at The Olympian Hong Kong; and Daniel Cheung (UK) won a three-night stay at the Island Pacific Hotel in Hong Kong.
FLIGHT NEWS
Who's up and who's down ASCENT
CHINA SOUTHERN is launching
flights between Guangzhou and Vienna on June 18 that will include a stopover in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang region.
SILKAIR, the regional arm of Singapore Airlines, has plans to launch non-stop flights to Busan in South Korea starting May 1.
JUNEYAO AIRLINES has applied to launch non-stop Shanghai-London
flights this July; rival carriers Air China and China Southern have applied to
launch flights on the same route from September 2018 and March 2019, respectively.
DESCENT Never been to… Balabac
LOCATED AT the southern tip of Palawan, the westernmost province of the Philippines, Balabac is nine hours from the nearest airport and a three-hour boat trip from Bataraza on Palawan. Despite its remoteness, it seems
thousands of people are interested in going there. Youtube videos with names like “The Most Beautiful Place in the World” and “The Best Island in the Philippines” have racked up several hundred thousand views. One blogger advises travellers to “visit soon before this paradise becomes hidden no
more”, noting the intense social media interest. But paradise is never without its perils. The New York Times reported last month on a
man-eating crocodile that had terrorised the island, attacking adults and children alike. One enraged villager was planning to use dynamite to blow the crocodile up. Every year since 2015 there has been a fatal crocodile attack in Balabac. Visitors who do brave the long journey and the crocs will be rewarded with pink-sand
beaches, vibrantly coloured coral and a wide range of (non-crocodilian) marine life, according to travel bloggers Nick and Val Wheatley.
AP RIL 20 19 bus ine s s tr a v el ler .c om CHINA AIRLINES has decided to
drop Air France’s non-stop Paris-Taipei flights from its codeshare agreement, meaning travellers will no longer be able to book seats on the service through China Airlines.
LUFTHANSA no longer looks set to operate new flights between Munich and Bangkok using its Airbus A350
aircraft this October; leisure subsidiary Eurowings will be flying the route instead using its A330-200.
PHILIPPINE AIRLINES has had to
delay its return to New Delhi, originally scheduled for April 16, owing to ongoing security issues regarding Pakistan’s air space.
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