Despite the gloom and doom of the worst crisis aviation has faced in its history, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) director general, Subhas Menon, is far from pessimistic about the future of his airline members. Read More »

For months, Australia’s politicians have been promising their citizens the opening of a travel bubble with New Zealand, but when it finally eventuated in October, it was not quite what they were expecting. Read More »

With air travel in most of the Asia-Pacific struggling for renewed traction in the face of the coronavirus crisis, the country at the epicentre of the pandemic, China, has seen its domestic airline traffic return to near 2019 levels. Read More »

Fleet downsizing and job cuts have become the order of the day for some of the Asia-Pacific’s biggest airlines as their operations and finances continue to be rocked by a coronavirus pandemic that refuses to abate. Read More »

The aviation industry of Taiwan became much more interesting in mid-2016 when it was announced Chang Kuo-wei, the former chairman of EVA Air and a prominent figure in Taiwanese aviation, would start his own airline, challenging the long-established duopoly of the country’s two major carriers. Read More »

It is official, at least as far as the world’s three major commercial jet manufacturers are concerned. Read More »

After this year’s COVID-19 induced lockdown crippled global aviation and brought passenger traffic to a near halt, Indian airlines, like every airline in the world, were confronted with a bleak future. Read More »

The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) chief economist, Brian Pearce, makes it clear just how much pressure aviation’s air cargo operators are experiencing. Read More »

Industry appraisal consultancy, IBA, reported at press time the global airline industry is shifting from managing the COVID-19 crisis to developing strategies for long-term survival. Read More »

Pratt & Whitney senior vice president engineering, Geoff Hunt, is just as excited as everyone else about future propulsion technologies that will ultimately take airlines into a carbon free future. Read More »

Hong Kong aviation veteran, Stanley Hui, wants to make it very clear the launch of Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), planned for the third quarter of next year, is not an attempt to grab opportunity in the middle of a pandemic. Read More »

London-based Kalrock Capital and multibillionaire businessman, Murari Lal Jalan, have come together to revive India’s Jet Airways almost 18 months after the country’s oldest private airline went into administration. Read More »

With nearly all of its critical international flying grounded, Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, is clearly frustrated with the haphazard approach of the country’s various states to closing their borders between each other. Read More »

Japan’s All Nippon Airways has strengthened action in reducing greenhouse gases from aviation with a new agreement to buy sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, the world’s leading producer of both SAF and renewable diesel. Read More »

After more than a decade of development and an investment of US$10 billion, Japan’s national SpaceJet, or M90, has been suspended, its backer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced. Read More »

In an industry first, travel technology provider, Sabre, and search engine, Google, are developing an Artificial Intelligence platform, Sabre Travel AI. Read More »

For the second consecutive year, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has had to drastically rearrange its annual gathering, the Assembly of Presidents of its member airlines. Read More »