When the U.S. government last month reacted to recent missile tests in North Korea by preparing for deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in South Korea, it was a body blow to the north Asian nation’s travel industry. Read More »

More than 120 guests from the aviation industry, media and tourism gathered at Hong Kong’s China Club on March 16 to honor Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, as Orient Aviation’s 2016 Person of the Year. Read More »

Asia-Pacific airlines and air navigation service providers are among the earliest adopters of the technology necessary to conform to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) upgraded aircraft tracking regulations. Read More »

The global inflight WiFi market is becoming crowded with new players and the reason is easy to explain. According to one research firm, Global Industry Analysts (GIA), the business is worth US$$1.85 billion. Read More »

Japan has been a sleeping giant when it comes to no-frills air travel. Conservative Japanese airline passengers would never take up budget travel, said any number of analysts. Read More »

The British and U.S. governments astonished the world in late March when they declared passengers departing or transiting through Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Casablanca, Cairo, Amman, Istanbul, Riyadh and Jeddah would be forbidden from carrying electronic devices larger than smartphones on flights to the U.S. and the UK until October 14. Read More »

Five airlines, including Singapore Airlines (SIA), have been accused by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of failing to pay compensation to passengers who missed their connecting services because of flight delays. Read More »

Escalating tensions between China and South Korea over the deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defence system in South Korea are taking their toll on the region’s airlines. Read More »

United Airlines’ (UA) entry-into-service of its Polaris business class cabin proved more challenging than the Chicago-headquartered airline thought, said the airline’s CEO, Oscar Munoz. Read More »

Two Asia-Pacific airlines are among the four launch carriers for a new merchandising content platform that was unveiled at ITB Berlin in March. Read More »

Thai Airways International’s (THAI) continues to flounder. The flag carrier’s board was scheduled to debate the structure of the new THAI Group – THAI itself and part-owned subsidiaries, Nok Air and THAI Smile - at its March board meeting, but the plan fell of the agenda because “several parties” did not fully understand the issue, the airline said. Read More »

Brazilian-headquartered commercial and business aviation manufacturer, Embraer, is to establish innovation teams in Silicon Valley and Boston to explore opportunities in air transportation. Read More »

Global aviation learnt harsh lessons from the tragic loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 three years ago. The still unsolved disappearance of the aircraft and its 239 passengers and crew is a stark reminder that airlines and the systems that allow them to fly across the world needed an regulatory overhaul. Read More »