“Big news indeed”, was the general reaction from IATA staff when they learnt their boss since July 2011 would depart the organization after its annual general meeting in Dublin in June. Read More »

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As 2015 draws to a close, the Asia-Pacific airline industry should have one of its safest years on record. Read More »

It has been a year of relative calm for most Asia-Pacific airlines, free from the crises that have been part of the business for the last decade. Read More »

Airlines may have spent decades arguing they are a global business and they need open markets and liberalized skies to reach their full potential. Read More »

In the past decade, they have exploded across the Asia-Pacific, but their growth has taken a pause in 2015, in a year that has been the toughest yet for the region’s low-cost carriers. Read More »

The revolving door policy at Thai Airways International (THAI) looks set to continue with the news that the country’s prime minister is “dissatisfied” with the carrier’s newest president, Charamporn Jotikasthira, and is about to issue him with a final six month deadline to improve the fortunes of the carrier. Read More »

It was a good year for the bottom lines of Asia-Pacific airlines. But it was also one of disruptive and inconsistent trends in industry regulatory and safety oversight, airspace risk assessment and aviation infrastructure planning. Read More »

Negotiations aimed at forging a major bloc-to-bloc open skies deal between Europe and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) could start early next year, said Henrik Hololei, the EU’s director general for mobility and transport, at the AAPA Assembly of Presidents in Bali. Read More »

Like most of Asia’s airlines, Garuda Indonesia is coping with increasing competition from the Middle East’s expansionist airlines. Read More »

Tigerair would go private if Singapore Airlines succeeded in taking full ownership of the low-cost carrier, delegates were told at the annual Assembly of Presidents of the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines (AAPA). Read More »

Holding a gala dinner in Havana’s historic Hotel Nacional wasn’t just a case of finding a convenient place for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to stage the event. Read More »

Analysts expect the arrival of the world’s biggest carrier, American Airlines (AA), in the Australian market, after an absence of more than two decades, will trigger fierce discounting as carriers already flying across the Pacific defend their market share against the newcomer. Read More »

Let them come. We’re more than capable of handling the competition. That’s the message from Hawaiian Airlines chief executive, Mark Dunkerley, as he faces a competitive crop of Asian low-cost carriers (LCC) planning services to his Honolulu hub. Read More »

Emirates boss, Sir Tim Clark, was in Kuala Lumpur as the year drew to a close to announce his new strategic alliance with MAB, the former MAS. Read More »

Indonesia’s transport minister, Ignasius Jonan, has told his nation’s airlines he is prepared to give away air rights to competitors, including the Middle East carriers, if Garuda and other Indonesian airlines do not launch more international routes. Read More »

Mainland China’s anti-corruption investigators have notched up several high-ranking scalps at China’s airlines and airports in the last 12 months. Read More »

In a Reuters report published in October, a senior British air accident investigator said a series of accidents in which pilots erred when abruptly handed back control drew attention to a loss of flying skills brought about by modern reliance on computers. Read More »

In April 1945, representatives of 57 airlines gathered in Havana, Cuba, to set up the International Air Transport Association. Read More »

In November, Airport Authority (AA) chief executive, Fred Lam Tin-fuk, told Hong Kong’s legislators the airport was considering increasing its aircraft movements from 68 to 70 an hour to relieve congestion at the two-runway airport. Read More »

A year of relative calm? Yes. A year of improved profitability for most Asia-Pacific airlines? Certainly. But that is not the whole story. Read More »

Asia-Pacific airlines carried 24.7 million international passengers in August, 6.6% more than the same month last year. Read More »