Cathay Pacific Group will suspend routes to Australia, Europe, North America and within Asia from February 20, when tougher quarantine measures for its Hong Kong-based pilots and cabin crew come into effect. Read More »

Japan Airlines (JAL) and its affiliate carriers flew 684,709 domestic passengers in January, down 51% from 1.41 million in December 2020 and 77% below the 2.8 million travellers it transported a year earlier. Read More »

Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company Limited (GAMECO) said on Tuesday it would introduce a third conversion line for its 737-800 converted freighter (BCF) program at the company's Guangzhou facility. Read More »

Garuda Indonesia will return 12 Bombardier CRJ-1000 regional jets to its lessor before the expiry of the leases in 2027, the country's state-owned enterprise minister, Erick Thohir, told reporters in Jakarta yesterday. Read More »

AirAsia Group said in a regulatory filing to Kuala Lumpur's Bursa Malaysia yesterday the price for the first tranche of its capital raising through the issuing of shares in a private placement would be 0.675 ringgit (US$0.17) per placement share, which represented a 9.82% discount to the five-day volume-weighted average (VWAP) price to February 9. Read More »

Singapore Airlines, SilkAir and Scoot have begun operating flights with cabin and cockpit crew fully vaccinated against virus outbreaks and transmissions. Read More »

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said earlier this week its three-hour "Cabin Crew – Leveraging Professional Skills" online course would be offered free to laid-off airline cabin crew members to help them re-enter the job market. Read More »