Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) CEO, Karam Chand, is having a busy year. Read More »

When the region’s largest long haul low cost carrier, Malaysia’s AirAsia X, added 34 A330neos to its order book at the mid-July Farnborough Air Show the commitment underscored the determination of co-founder, Tony Fernandes, to return the low-cost airline group to Europe after a six-year hiatus. Read More »

At any Asia-Pacific hub airport – and many of the region’s smaller ones – long check in queues, backed up lines at security barriers and delayed flights are the norm. Read More »

For a change, Airbus and Boeing are sharing some common ground. Read More »

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 above the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014 was a tragic wake-up call for the aviation industry, Inmarsat senior vice president, Strategy and Business Development, Frederik van Essen, told Orient Aviation during the recent International Air Transport Association’s 74th annual general meeting in Sydney. Read More »

Research recently published by the Britain’s London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has forecast the connected aircraft would reduce airline operating costs by US$15 billion a year by 2035 and has the potential to eliminate 21.3 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions from flights in the same period. Read More »

Forecast demand for pilots in the Asia-Pacific to 2037 declined by five per cent, to 240,000 cockpit crew, said Boeing in its latest annual Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook released last month. Read More »

Airbus has identified North America as the major market for its new A220 aircraft, a region where the manufacturer expected to generate 40% of all sales of the former Bombardier C Series regional jet. Read More »

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has turned to leading global wellness group, Canyon Ranch, to re-invent the cabin experience on the carrier’s new ultra long haul Singapore-New York service. Read More »

Piya Yodmani, who was promoted from deputy CEO to the top job at Bangkok-based Nok Air a year ago, unexpectedly resigned from his positions at the low-cost carrier on August 23. Read More »

Not a week goes by without more news about the perceived perilous state of the HNA Group’s indebtedness. Read More »

An International Air Transport Association (IATA) global study has revealed that 73% of respondents forecast the major areas of job growth in the industry will be in ground operations and the customer service and cabin crew sectors in the next two years. Read More »

For the fiscal year to June 30, 2018, Air New Zealand (Air NZ) and the Qantas Group reported impressive results. Read More »

As Srilankan Airlines rumbles on in its shambolic way following a forced change of senior management earlier this year, it is rumoured that industry veteran, Peter Hill, who most recently has spent several years running TAAG in Angola, is returning to the carrier. Read More »

Joint venture engine manufacturer, CFM International, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have reached an agreement “to maintain and foster robust and open MRO competition as well as the competitive nature of its MRO model”. Read More »

Joint venture full service carrier, India’s Vistara, has agreed that Scotland’s Bluebox Wow will provide portable wireless IFE aboard its 21 A320s and additions of the type to the fleet from this month. Read More »

Global distribution platform, Travelport, which was the first GDS to receive IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) Level 3 certification, is conducting pilot programs with several carriers to determine how NDC works for them. Read More »

Aviation to services conglomerate , the HNA Group, has agreed to sell 30% of its leasing subsidiary, Avolon, to Japan’s Orix Corporation for US$2.2 billion. Read More »

When the AirAsia Group pioneered long-haul, low-cost flying in 2009 with the launch of Kuala Lumpur-London and then Kuala Lumpur-Paris in 2010, naysayers abounded. Read More »