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Brand new airline Starlux starts selling tickets

Zach Wichter
Zach Wichter
Aviation Industry Reporter
Zach has been interested in things that go since he was a kid. He previously worked at The New York Times and spent much of his time there covering the aviation industry, including contributing to the paper’s reporting on the 737 Max crisis at Boeing. He grew up in Bethpage, on Long Island, and graduated from Northwestern University in 2013 where he majored in journalism and gender and sexuality studies.
Dec. 17, 2019
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Brand new airline Starlux starts selling tickets
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A new airline is set to take to the skies over Asia next month, and it started selling tickets earlier this week.

Starlux Airlines, set to be based in Taipei, took delivery of its first Airbus A321neo in October and will begin service to Macau, Da Nang, Vietnam and Penang, Malaysia on Jan. 23, 2020.

One Mile at a Time was the first to report that the airline is selling tickets. According to OMAAT, the delay in initiating ticket sales after receiving aircraft was due to a holdup in final regulatory approval.

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While Starlux will only serve Asian destinations initially, the airline has 17 Airbus A350s on order (12 -900s and five -1000s), and plans to serve North America when those aircraft are delivered, beginning in 2021.

Starlux bills itself as a luxury airline, offering fully flat beds in business class, even on its A321neo routes, and 31 inches of pitch in economy.

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Featured image by Starlux Airlines A321neo rendering. (Image courtesy of Starlux Airlines.)