By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Starlux Airlines Co (星宇航空) today unveiled a long-haul network expansion plan at a shareholders’ meeting in Taipei, including direct flights to Barcelona, Spain, and Zurich, Switzerland, as well as a service connecting Taipei, Sydney and New Zealand. Starlux is to become the first Taiwanese carrier to offer non-stop services to the two European cities, while the inaugural oceanic route is expected to expand transit opportunities within the Australia-New Zealand market, Starlux said.Flight services to Chicago, Dallas, Washington and New York are under evaluation, the airline added.
A Starlux aircraft is pictured in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of Starlux Airlines
Prior to the shareholders’ meeting, the airline earlier this year announced that it would be launching direct flight services to Busan, South Korea, from Taipei and Taichung next month, as well as services from Taipei to Prague and Bali, Indonesia, in the second half of this year. The airline also told shareholders that it expects to take delivery of three additional A321neo aircraft, three A330neo aircraft and four A350-1000 aircraft by the end of this year, bringing the total number of new aircraft added this year to 14 and increasing its overall fleet size to 43.
