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FEBRUARY 2021

Week 5

Orient Aviation's Daily Digest for Monday, February 1 2021

Welcome to our first edition of Orient Aviation Daily Digest in 2021.

We look forward to delivering the most important Asia-Pacific aviation news to your inbox every Monday to Friday in the Lunar Year of the Ox.

By Jordan Chong

 

News

HNA Group share price lifts after bankruptcy reorganisation announced

Chinese conglomerate and airline owner, HNA Group, has received a notice from a Hainan court that creditors had sought bankruptcy and reorganisation of the company due to an inability to meet its debt commitments. Read More »


 

News

Air China’s 2020 net loss could hit US$2.4 billion

Air China said in a regulatory filing to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong it expected to report a net loss in the range of 13.5 billion-15.5 billion yuan (US$2.1 billion-$2.4 billion) for calendar 2020, compared with a net profit of 6.4 billion yuan a year earlier. Read More »


 

News

Shanghai’s China Eastern Airlines deep in the red from COVID-19

China Eastern Airlines (CEA) has flagged an annual net loss in the vicinity of 9.8 billion-12.5 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion-$1.9 billion) for the 12 months to December 31, 2020, due to the pandemic. Read More »


 

News

China Southern Airlines predicts lowest annual losses of “Big Three” carriers

China Southern Airlines (CSA) has forecast a net loss for calendar 2020 of 7.9 billion-10.9 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion to $1.7 billion), down from net profit of 2.7 billion in the same months in 2019. Read More »


 

News

Demand collapses 81.09% at Asia-Pacific airlines

Figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) published late last week showed carriers in the region flew 69.5 million international passengers in calendar 2020, down 81.9% from 383.5 million in the prior corresponding period. Read More »


 

News

VietJet defies global trends with profits of US$3 million in 2020

Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company, the parent company of low-cost carrier, VietJet, yesterday reported a consolidated after-tax profit of 70 billion dong (US$3 million) for calendar 2020, with consolidated revenue reported at 18.2 trillion dong. Read More »


 

News

Australia-New Zealand air travel bubble resumes but with conditions

The Australian government yesterday gave the green light for quarantine-free flights from New Zealand to resume, albeit with some additional safety measures. Read More »


 

News

Singapore MRO pins hope on vaccines for sector’s recovery

SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) said on Friday the progressive rollout of COVID-19 vaccines offered "hope of a gradual recovery of the aviation industry and the MRO business" as it reported net profit fell 85.7%, to S$7.7 million (US$5.8 million), in the three months to December 31, 2020, compared with a year earlier. Read More »