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MAY 2024

Week 19

Orient Aviation Daily Digest May 6, 2024

By Ryan Chase

 

News

Capital A CEO confirms retirement schedule

Capital A CEO, Tony Fernandes, has decided his current five-year contract leading the airline, ecommerce and aviation services group will be his last with the company. Read More »


 


 

News

PAL Holdings net profit slips 22% in latest quarter against same months in 2023

PAL Holdings, parent of Philippine Airlines (PAL), said its 3.6 billion peso (US$63 million) net profit for the three months to March 31dipped from the 5.9 billion peso net profit in the same quarter in 2023. Read More »


 


 

News

Tigerair Taiwan doubles net profit in first quarter 2024

Tigerair Taiwan has recorded a net profit of TW$861.2 million (US$27 million) for the three months to March 31, up 100.9% from a TW$428.6 million net profit in the same quarter in 2023. Read More »


 

News

Australia’s air travellers to exceed 330 million a year by 2050

Australia will record 332.2 million domestic and international air travellers annually by 2050, the country's Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) forecasts. Read More »


 

News

Vietjet triples net profit traffic update reports

Vietjet netted a 520 billion dong (US$20 million) profit for the 2024 first quarter, more than three times its net profit of 168 billion dong booked in first quarter 2023. Read More »


 

News

Etihad Airways new interline partners include three Asia-Pacific carriers

Etihad Airways has entered into interline agreements with five carriers including Jeju Air in South Korea, Myanmar Airways International and Australian domestic regional carrier, Rex. Read More »


 

People

BOC Aviation said Lim Zi Yuan has resigned as company secretary and an authorised representative of the company effective May 3. Read More »


 

Asia-Pacific Aerospace Briefs Today

Today's briefs report news from Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG), MJets Air, Rolls-Royce, Subang Airport, Sydney Airport, Teleport and Turkish Airlines. Read More »


 

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