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MAY 2025

Week 22

Orient Aviation Daily Digest May 26, 2025

By Ryan Chase

 

News

AirAsia opens new Indonesia-Thailand route

Thai AirAsia will start nonstop four times a week Phuket-Medan on June 27 operating the route with A320s. Read More »


 

News

Skymark adds six 737 MAX 8s to order book with Boeing

Japan’s Skymark Airlines has agreed a firm order with Boeing for another six 737 MAX 8s with deliveries from 2030. Read More »


 

News

Boeing agrees settlement that avoids prosecution for fatal 737 MAX crashes

Boeing and the U.S. Department of Justice have signed an agreement that removes the risk of the OEM being prosecuted for two 737 MAX 8 crashes killed 346 passengers and crew. Read More »


 

News

Bangkok Airways to buy back 3.05% of issued capital in second-half 2025

Bangkok Airways has announced it will repurchase 64 million shares in the carrier. Read More »


 

News

Changi Airport Group reports 68% increase in net profit in latest fiscal year

Singapore’s Changi Airport Group (CAG) has recorded a net profit of S$685 million (US$533 million) for the 12 months to March 31 compared with a net profit of S$407 million a year ago. Read More »


 

News

Virgin Australia and Boeing release Sustainable Aviation Fuel report

Virgin Australia (VA) and Boeing have completed a study that evaluates a Book and Claim framework for accounting of the environmental benefits of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Read More »


 

People

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) said Philip Chen Nan-lok, Laurence Li Lu-jen and Dr Hon Lo Wai-kwok have been reappointed as board directors for another three years.


 

Asia-Pacific Aerospace Briefs Today

Today’s briefs report news from AirAsia, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Aviation Group and SATS. Read More »