It’s been a momentous two years for Japan Airlines (JAL) president, Yoshiharu Ueki, the pilot turned boss who stepped into the mighty shoes of octogenarian Kazuo Inamori, the legendary Japanese business tycoon who led JAL out of its 2010 bankruptcy. Read More »

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Airline growth would stall and the economic advantages of an expanded aviation sector on the region’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be eroded unless governments speeded up investment in all strategic sectors of ground facilities and ATM, said AAPA director general, Andrew Herdman, at the AAPA Assembly of Presidents, held this year in Hong Kong. Read More »

Airline chiefs across the Asia-Pacific have accepted the region’s low-cost carriers, with their booming market share, are a permanent and valuable sector of the aviation landscape. Read More »

Airports across the region have announced a series of massive, multi-billion dollar investments in airports, terminals and runways as well as focusing - at last – on developing a more efficient and modern regional Asian Skies air traffic management network. Read More »

Qantas Group chief executive, Alan Joyce, has unleashed a fierce public – and political - campaign intended to halt the expanded foreign ownership portfolio of his airline rival. Read More »

Ambitious Etihad Airways has acquired 33.3% of Switzerland’s Darwin Airline, as it pursues its goal of establishing Etihad Regional in Europe. Read More »

Knock on local doors when seeking financing is the advice of one of the region’s leading aircraft lessors because the industry has to find new ways of financing its business. Read More »

Dubai-headquartered Emirates Group has announced an interim profit of US$600 million to September 30, a four per cent increase over the same six months in 2012.  Read More »

Operators of Shenzhen’s new airport, which opened last month, said the US$1.392 billion facility can now offer more flights to Australasia, emerging markets such as Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines as well as Europe, the Middle East and North America. Read More »

Mainland China carrier, Spring Airlines, has ordered 30 more A320s, valued at US$2.75 billion, with the low-cost carrier expected to receive the single aisle aircraft from 2015. Read More »

Xiamen Airlines, based in the affluent coastal province of Fujian, accepted the 100th aircraft of its all-Boeing fleet in November. Read More »

CFM’s new fuel efficient LEAP engine has completed a five-week ground testing program of 310 hours and 400 cycles. In the coming year, 15 LEAP engines, which will be a combination of all three models, will be tested including early icing testing in Canada and early endurance testing. Read More »

CODESHARES: Cathay Pacific Airways and Air Seychelles have signed a code share agreement that will commence this month, offering a three times a week service between Hong Kong and the Seychelles. Read More »

Asia-Pacific airlines’ international passenger traffic continued to grow in August, with 20 million passengers carried for the month, an 8.7% increase compared with the same period last year. Revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) for international passenger traffic grew by 8.2%, while available seat capacity expanded by a more conservative 5.5%. Read More »