ANA HOLDINGS INC., the parent company of All Nippon Airways (ANA) has reported net profits of 62.6 billion yen (US$486 million) for the nine months to December 31, 2022, compared with a 102.8 billion yen net loss in the corresponding months in 2021. Read More »

JAL Group, the parent company of Japan Airlines (JAL), has booked a net profit of 16.3 billion yen (US$127 million) for the nine months to December 31 last year, a return to the black from a net loss of 128.3 billion yen in the matching period in 2021. Read More »

Vietjet flew 20.5 million passengers on 116,000 flights in 2022 with domestic services up 20% over 2019. Read More »

Australia's Qantas Airways will operate nonstop A330 Melbourne Tullamarine-Jakarta flights three times a week from April 16. Read More »

Virgin Atlantic will restore daily nonstop London Heathrow-Shanghai Pudong from May 1. Read More »

The Hainan Airlines 737 MAX fleet is back in commercial service almost four years after the type was grounded in March 2019 following two fatal accidents of the type in Indonesia and Ethiopia, local media reports, citing flight tracking websites. Read More »

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) has announced it will give away half a million air tickets to help restore the economic health of the Special Administrative Region's aviation and tourism industries. Read More »

Airbus and Qatar Airways have reached an “amicable and mutually agreeable settlement” in a legal dispute concerning surface degradation on the A350. Read More »

Former Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) CEO, Chester Voo Chee Soon, is the new CEO for group aviation at Berjaya Land Berhad, the company behind Asia Jet, Berjaya Air and Rafflesia Airways.

Today's briefs include news from British Airways, Phillips 66, Safran and Travel Places. Read More »

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