Royal Brunei Airlines is one of the most secretive airlines in the world when it comes to financial transparency. But you don’t need to be a company insider to recognize the carrier is under siege from nimble budget airlines and full service rivals with better networks. Read More »

Connections missed. Flight schedules in havoc. Weary cockpit and cabin crew coping daily with frustrated passengers. Tourism in several Asia-Pacific countries taking a bottom line hit. Read More »

It was a good week for the world’s airline MROs in mid-September, when they acquired a powerful new ally in their battle to defeat OEM dominance of their industry - the International Air Transport Association and its director general and CEO, Tony Tyler. Read More »

Andreas Meisel, the former managing director of Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services has moved to China as the Chief MRO Operations Officer at Ameco Beijing, a joint venture between the German company and Air China. Read More »

Philippine Airlines (PAL) president, Jaime Bautista, was far from happy last month after his government concluded two days of air rights discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that will allow Gulf airlines to increase their weekly flights to the Philippines by 25%. Read More »

It will be sometime before every commercial aircraft flying across the globe will be tracked every 15 minutes, but in the Asia-Pacific, three regulators are already meeting the ICAO standard, planned for global implementation by 2018. Read More »

Many Asia-Pacific airlines are missing out on opportunities to boost their businesses from ancillary revenue, with only one Asia-Pacific airline listed in the world’s top ten ancillary earners, a new study has reported. Read More »

We’re not moving fast enough, says Boeing’s vice president flight services, Sherry Carbary, of the industry’s commitment to training the 226,000 new pilots and 238,000 new technicians needed to fly and service the Asia Pacific fleet in the next two decades. Read More »

Thailand’s first joint flight training academy is building its reputation as a regional centre for high quality dry time pilot training at its university-based centre in Bangkok. Read More »

Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, fabled for his rags to riches success as the founder of China’s first and most popular online commerce site, has joined forces with rival, Tencent Holdings, and Shanghai airport to make the vast Pudong facility “smarter”, reported Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post last month. Read More »

The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ruled in favour of the Philippines International Air Terminals Co. Inc. (PIATCO) and its joint venture partner, Frankfurt Airport, in a decade long dispute with the Philippines government about the ownership of terminal 3 at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Read More »

Walking the talk in his battle to turn around flag carrier, Thai Airways International (THAI), is proving tougher than its reform minded president and chief executive, Charamporn Jotikasthira, expected. Read More »

The fact that 30% of flights into China operated by Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair were delayed in the first half of this year is no news to anyone in the industry. China is a red hot congestion spot that is showing no signs of cooling in the immediate future. Read More »

International air passenger demand remained robust in June, with the region’s airlines recording a 6.0% year-on-year increase in the passengers carried to 21.9 million for the month. Measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), international passenger demand increased by 6.2% while available seat capacity expanded by 5.8%, leading to a marginal 0.3 percentage point rise in the average international passenger load factor, to 77.8%. Read More »