When Goh Choon Phong, then 49, took charge of Singapore Airlines (SIA) on January 1, 2011, few in the industry anticipated the radical path he would take at an airline that had become an industry institution. Read More »

For the industry it was an historic moment. At the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), held this year in Miami, the organisation’s director general and CEO, Tony Tyler, announced that the global airline industry is forecast to report its highest profit margin since the mid-1960s in 2015. Read More »

After several unique air accidents that have taken hundreds of lives in the last 18 months, efforts to maintain the highest air safety levels have been redoubled, but it has emerged some IATA members will struggle to meet the 2016 deadline for upgraded tracking standards. Read More »

Board one of Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) fleet of 13 A330s flying its Asia-Pacific’s routes and there will be a good chance you will notice something is missing onboard. Read More »

Competition between Australia and the U.S. will escalate in December after Qantas Airways and American Airlines announced a major expansion of their joint business agreement that will see the U.S. carrier return to Sydney after an absence of more than 20 years. Read More »

A certain fatalism greeted the news last month that the United Nation’s aviation body had “red flagged” Thailand and downgraded its safety rating to category 2 after Thai regulators failed to meet a 90-day deadline to improve “Significant Safety Concerns (SSC) present in the country’s aviation standards system. Read More »

Four years ago, Japan Airlines (JAL) was on the financial ropes, with nowhere to go except controversial, government supported rehabilitation. Read More »

In a highly unusual move, a Tokyo court supervising bankruptcy proceedings has ruled that creditors of bankrupt domestic carrier, Skymark Airlines, must decide between two proposed rehabilitation plans. The deadline for the decision is August 5. Read More »

Christoph Mueller, the 52-year-old German who took over Malaysia Airlines (MAS) in May has not taken long to wield the knife. Along with massive staff cuts and route downsizing, he has decided to sell the entire MAS fleet of six A380s. Read More »

Asia’s Garuda Indonesia grabbed the headlines on the opening day of this year’s Paris Air show with a stunning $20 billion order for 60 Boeing and Airbus jets. As the days rolled on, Asia-Pacific airlines continued to boost the order books of the big planemakers, a change from the recent past when Gulf carriers dwarfed their rivals with their fleet orders at Paris. Read More »

Boeing and Airbus released updated 20-year forecasts for global aircraft demand at the Paris Air Show last month which increased their fleet projections on the basis of demand from the Asia-Pacific and particularly Mainland China. Read More »

Almost three years after the Qantas Group announced it would launch joint venture carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government has said the proposed budget airline does not qualify as a local airline. Read More »

As for another part of Jetstar’s business, JAL’s investment in low-cost carrier, Jetstar Japan, Japan Airlines chairman, Masaru Onishi said: “We are not satisfied. Who would be satisfied with a red ink company? Read More »

Speculation surrounds the whereabouts of China Aircraft Leasing Group’s (CALC) founder and his finance chief after the aircraft lessor received a resignation letter from Mike Poon Ho-man on June 17. Read More »

An increase in Lunar New Year leisure travelers extended into March when Asia-Pacific airlines carried 23.3 million passengers, an 11.3% increase, for the month. Revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) rose by 11.5%, exceeding a 7.0% expansion in available seat capacity. Read More »