Last year was the safest on record for the world’s airlines, including carriers from the Asia-Pacific. So far, this year has been even better. Read More »

Air safety professionals are becoming increasingly alarmed that current pilot training processes are so outdated they are failing to equip crew to cope with the complex, computer-based technology of modern jet aircraft

PILOT TRAINING 'OUTDATED' Read More »

There is concern air safety regulatory bodies in the Asia-Pacific will struggle to find enough qualified inspectors to maintain proper checks on the huge increase in aircraft to be delivered to the region in the next two decades. Many, like Vietnam, already are. Read More »

The 55-year-old Singaporean executive chairman of Australia’s Regional Express, or Rex as it is better known, Lim Kim Hai, rarely plans beyond six months. Read More »

With last month’s strategic shift by Qantas Airways to forge a 10-year alliance with Gulf giant, Emirates Airline, done and dusted along with its decision to ditch all flights to Europe through Asia, chief executive Alan Joyce has begun the hard sell to convince competition regulators to approve the deal. Read More »

When Philippine Airlines (PAL) president, Ramon S. Ang, signed the biggest aircraft order in the Philippines’ history with Airbus in August to buy 54 new jets worth US$7 billion, he dropped an unexpected bombshell. Read More »

Last month, to the delight of investors, alliance partners, customers, employees, the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation (ETIC) and the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Japan Airlines (JAL) relisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as the world’s most profitable airline. Read More »

When one of the Asia-Pacific’s recognized leaders in inflight service, Singapore Airlines (SIA), disclosed it was spending $400 million to equip its aircraft with advanced inflight entertainment systems last month, in a bid to maintain advantage over rivals, it was hardly a surprise. Read More »

Last month, 300 pilots and cabin crew at Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) began a three-month trial using iPads. Read More »

With three new low-cost carriers (LCCs) in operation since March the Japanese domestic market is experiencing a tsunami-like transformation. Read More »

Thai Airways International (THAI) has appointed a political insider, 57-year-old Sorajak Kasemsuvan, as its new president. It follows the controversial sacking of Piyasvasti Amranand four months ago amid claims his departure was politically motivated. Read More »

Launch customer of the B787 “Dreamliner”, All Nippon Airways, has added 11 B787-9s to its order book at Boeing, which will increase the carrier’s Dreamliner fleet to 66. The confirmed order is made up of 36 B787-8s and 30 B787-9s, with deliveries to be completed by 2021. Read More »

Spring Airlines, a profitable Shanghai-based, low-cost carrier (LCC), intends to establish an LCC in Japan in conjunction with a local investor. Read More »

Former Qantas Airways boss, Geoff Dixon, is the part-owner of another established public house in Sydney, Australia, following the purchase by the Riversdale Group of its seventh pub. Read More »

Cathay Pacific Airways has banned shark’s fin from its cargo flights, with the ban to come into full effect close to year end. The carrier said it expected the transition to take approximately three months as it notifies shippers and puts new procedures in place. Read More »

AIRLINES: Africa World Airlines, Hainan Airlines’ joint venture airline in Accra, Ghana, launched services with flights to three Ghanaian cities flying two Embraer ERJ 145s. Read More »

Despite concerns about the health of the global economy, Asia-Pacific carriers experienced further growth in international passenger demand in June, which was underpinned by relatively strong regional travel. Read More »