Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and CEO, was honored as a Lifetime Achievement award recipient and Orient Aviation’s Person of the Year at a dinner in Hong Kong in February. Read More »

Malaysia Airlines had been in intensive care for months when the former CEO of the Aer Lingus Group, Christoph Mueller, arrived in Kuala Lumpur last year to embark on the formidable task of restoring the airline’s reputation. Read More »

Fuel is the life blood of the airline industry and its biggest cost. It also can be its Achilles Heel as past, extremely elevated aviation kerosene prices have demonstrated. Read More »

Sales of $3.15 billion at list prices may sound like a lot of money, but historically speaking, deals for new jets at February’s Singapore Air Show were thin on the ground. Read More »

Singapore was good news for MTU Aero Engines orders with the engine manufacturer scoring business worth US$570 million during the February air show. Read More »

The Singapore Seletar Aerospace interiors centre, officially opened in mid-February, is equipped with facilities that “allow aircraft owners to work with in-house designers to visualise the interior of their aircraft through 3D renderings and 3D printing of scale models that give the most realistic impression of each element before the production phase,” said ST Aerospace. Read More »

It has taken six years of painstaking negotiations and technical work, but finally the world’s aviation regulator, in the form of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) environment panel, has announced new standards for greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Read More »

New Zealand may be small in population and remote in destination, but it is becoming a hot property in the airline world. Read More »

The New Year brought bad news in two Asian countries for disruptive airline passengers. China, one of the world’s unruly passenger hot spots, is creating a passenger black list that will see anyone causing trouble aboard commercial aircraft banned from travelling. Read More »

The big plane makers were more than happy at the Singapore Air Show and little wonder. They view the Asia-Pacific as a future cash cow. Read More »

When a number of Asia-Pacific airports released their detailed traffic statistics for 2015 it confirmed the predictions of airlines that airports will face serious congestion if they don’t fast track infrastructure expansion. Read More »

The new A330 Cabin and Delivery Centre (CDC) is good news for Chinese airlines,” said Airbus China CEO, Eric Chen, at a news conference celebrating the ground breaking of the manufacturer’s first A330 CDC, in Tianjin, on March 2. Read More »

The CEOs of Australia’s two major airlines and Tasman rival, Air New Zealand, unveiled rosy financial pictures for their airlines at the February announcements of their interim financial results, to December 31, 2015. Read More »

Airbus and low-cost carrier, Vietjet, have agreed to establish a flight training and maintenance training facility in Ho Chi Minh City, the first Training by Airbus agreement in Vietnam. Read More »

Singapore’s regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has become the first air navigation service provider in the Asia-Pacific to adopt space-based ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast) that will allow equipped aircraft to be tracked wherever they are flying in the country’s airspace. Read More »

Fuel is an airline’s largest expense. The fact that oil is at its lowest price in years is a massive boost for an industry that was paying more than US$120 a barrel for aviation kerosene 19 months ago. Read More »