Malaysia's AirAsia X CEO, Benyamin Ismail reveals the LCC has made “substantial progress” in talks with creditors as reports emerged of a wider deal by AirAsia Group to renegotiate aircraft contracts with Airbus worth tens of billions of dollars. Read More »

Philippine Airlines (PAL) and other industry groups lobbying to shorten the quarantine period for overseas arrivals have received the support of the country’s Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship. Read More »

The Australian government has committed an additional A$183.65 million in job support payments and rebates to help the aviation industry prepare for the re-opening of international borders. Read More »

Singapore Airlines has informed Singapore's Stock Exchange it had spent the S$8.8 billion raised in a 2020 rights issue with the last S$600 million going to aircraft and aircraft related payments. Read More »

Shanghai's China Eastern Airlines (CEA) will boost its presence in southern China's Hainan by adding 50 aircraft to a new base on the island as part of global connection to an “air silk road”. Read More »

Air New Zealand (Air NZ) said it will not operate any flights between Australia and New Zealand from September 25 to November 30 except for a handful of quarantine flights that have already sold out on Australia-bound services. Read More »

Embraer has signed a multi-year services agreement with Alliance Airlines to provide materials support for the carrier’s fleet of E190s. The deal, involving Embraer’s Services & Support portfolio of solutions, covers more than 300 repairable components and includes both materials and technical administration services supported from Embraer Asia-Pacific’s facility in Singapore. Alliance has a committed fleet of 32 E190s with 12 in Australia and the remainder due to enter revenue service in the next 12 months.