Xiamen Air Flies Davao

9 November 2018

XiamenAir will launch twice-weekly direct flights between Quanzhou/Jinjiang – Davao route starting December 18. The route will be flown with Boeing 737-800 aircraft every Tuesday and Friday with the following flight schedule:

MF8679 JJN0900 – 1215DVO 738 25
MF8680 DVO1315 – 1630JJN 738 25

Xiamen Air Overruns MNL Amids Heavy Downpour

Forced Airport Closure

17 August 2018

@11:30 MNL runway 06/24 is now open

@10am. Runway, lights, and markings is currently being repaired and will be done before 12nn 

@5pm Saturday.

@4am Saturday. Closure extended until 1pm.

 

tv footage@8:00pm
NAIA main runway will remain closed until 5 a.m. on Saturday as MIAA struggles to remove the 737 plane that skidded off the runway. Two retrieval plans with the assistance of LTP failed. So they are bringing two cranes to lift the plane off the ground.

@4:00pm

Sometime around 3:30pm and the aircraft is still there

@1:30PM, the aircraft is still sitting at the side of the runway. Delay retrievals associated with weather conditions.

Right engine some 200 meters away

Left landing gear some 300 meters from fuselage

Perspective of the crash site

Xiamen Airlines B737-800 (B-5498) crashed landed in Manila International Airport after landing in heavy downpour last night and rolled longer than usual on runway 24 six minutes before midnight. There is no ILS on runway 24 and landing is purely visual at minimum. Flight #MF8667 with 165 passengers and crew came from Xiamen. No injuries reported.  Plane is declared write-off.

MIAA General Manager Ed Monreal said the plane attempted to land twice. On the second try, the plane lost contact with the NAIA airport tower.

Runway to open at 4am Saturday after retrieval of  aircraft on runway. Runway 13-31 remained open but affected all widebody flights that uses the main runway.

 

🇵🇭 Un Boeing 737-800 de la compagnie chinoise Xiamen Airlines se pose en urgence et fait une violente sortie de piste à l'aéroport de Manille.

Le Boeing a perdu un réacteur lors de sa sortie de piste.
Plus d’infos à venir. #MF8667 pic.twitter.com/uAItTpAVaz

— air plus news (@airplusnews) August 16, 2018

Xiamen Adds Jinjiang To Cebu

12 April 2017

Opens Kalibo Hub

Xiamen Airlines has begun its fourth non-stop route between China and the Philippines. On April 10 it introduced twice-weekly (Mondays and Fridays) flights on the 1,706-kilometre route between Jinjiang (JJN) and Cebu.

The airline also flies to Xiamen from Cebu. It is the fourth route of Xiamen Airlines in the Philippines after Manila-Xiamen and Manila-Jinjiang. 

Meanwhile, the carrier will launch its third hub with its fifth and six route out of the country when it begins Kalibo flight to Xiamen and Fuzhou beginning May 1 using Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It is also awaiting regulatory clearance to fly two more destinations to China.

Xiamen Grows Cebu Hub

18 January 2017

Xiamen Air is fast growing its Cebu hub as it opens Fushou-Cebu and Quanzhou-Cebu this year. The route will be serve with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Xiamen Air reopened the Xiamen-Cebu route in March 2016, flying three times weekly. The airline also flies Xiamen-Manila and for a time flew also Xiamen-Davao in September and October last year.

Schedules for the new flights from Mactan Cebu to China will be made available as soon as regulatory approvals are secured by the airline.