Shinya Katanozaka relishes a challenge. And that is just as well because he has plenty ahead of him in his new role as CEO and president of ANA Holdings Ltd. Read More »

The news has not grabbed the headlines yet, but when it does, it will mark out 2015 as a landmark year in trans-Pacific airline operations. Just two years ago, American airlines flew close to double the number of flights to China as Chinese airlines did to the U.S. Read More »

When the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently released its first 20-year passenger growth forecast it confirmed the trend airline analysts have long identified. Read More »

Wasting no time, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) chief executive and former pilot, Christoph Mueller, wrote to staff in his first week at his new desk said that 6,000 of them had no future at MAS and also negotiated an agreement to reduce the airline’s catering costs by up to 25%. Read More »

Low spare runway capacity, regulated airport charges and the negative impact of e-commerce on airport retail revenue is forecast to dampen revenue growth at China’s four biggest airports in the short to medium term, report global investment bankers, Jefferies. Read More »

Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, told investors last month that the company is set to deliver one of the biggest turnarounds in the carrier’s history. Read More »

A growing number of airlines, including Asia-Pacific carriers, are banning the carriage of bulk shipments of lithium-ion batteries in the holds of their passenger and freighter as concerns because of concern they pose a serious risk to the safety of flight. Read More »

Airlines advocate liberalized skies, open markets and the abolition of outdated rules and regulations – except when it does not suit them. Read More »

Sir Maurice Flanagan, who led the team that launched Emirates Airline in October 1985, passed away, after a brief battle with cancer, at home in London on May 7. Read More »

Former Korean Air senior executive, Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of the airline’s chairman, has been released from prison after an appeals court ruled she had not breached aviation security rules in an incident in the U.S. last December. Read More »

Carriers experienced a strong rise in passenger demand in February, underpinned by an increase in leisure travellers during the Chinese New Year Lunar period. In aggregate, the region’s airlines carried 21.9 million international passengers during the month, an increase of 12.3% compared with the same month last year. Read More »