September 24, 2020

• Vietnam Airlines said today the first official scheduled international commercial flight to Vietnam would take off tomorrow when VN417 departs from Seoul Incheon for Hanoi. Tickets for the flight, to be operated by an A350-900, went on sale today and were available from Vietnam Airlines ticket offices and official agents in South Korea and Vietnam, the airline said in a statement. The SkyTeam alliance member resumed outbound international flights on September 18 when it flew Hanoi-Tokyo Narita. Read More »

September 23, 2020

• International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac, said overnight systematic COVID-19 testing of all travellers before departure was "key to restoring the freedom of mobility across borders". The airline lobby group has called for the development and deployment of rapid, accurate, affordable, easy-to-operate, scalable and systematic testing for the coronavirus on all passengers before departure as an alternative to "impractical quarantine measures". Read More »

September 22, 2020

• Singapore Changi Airport handled 84,300 passengers in August, down 98.6% from 5.9 million recently. The figure was lower than the 86,000 passengers in July. Changi's monthly traffic report showed the number of commercial aircraft movements fell 82.8% year-on-year to 5,560 in August, compared with 32,400 a year ago. Air freight was 28.9% lower at 120,000 tonnes. Read More »

September 21, 2020

• Cathay Dragon said yesterday the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (CAD) had suspended its three times a week Hong Kong-Kuala Lumpur nonstop flight for two weeks after five people aboard KA735 from Kuala Lumpur tested positive to COVID-19. Read More »

Monthly traffic reports from China's three biggest airline groups showed domestic air travel was moving closer to pre-coronavirus numbers. Read More »

Taiwanese carriers, China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Air, recorded a third straight month of increasing passenger numbers in August. Read More »

As Asiana Airlines ponders its next steps in an uncertain future, South Korean corporate heavyweights, Hyundai Development Company (HDC) and Kumho Industrial, have traded barbs over the blame for the collapse of a deal to buy the debt-laden carrier. Read More »

SpiceJet chairman and managing director, Ajay Singh, said this week there were reasons to be optimistic about the period ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic pushing the airline into the red. Read More »

Boeing has named Marc Allen as its new chief strategy officer and senior vice president of strategy and corporate development. Read More »

Raytheon Technologies Corp CEO, Greg Hayes, told an investor conference this week some 15,000 jobs would be cut from Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and its corporate offices due to the COVID-19 led industry downturn. Read More »