Glad to see the back of 2020, Asia-Pacific carriers now fear the coming year could be just as bad. Read More »

Some of the Asia-Pacific’s largest airlines are cautiously optimistic that market conditions will improve later this year. Read More »

The MAX is back. Read More »

It is promising to be another tough year for plane makers as airlines continue to park huge numbers of their fleets because several nations are maintaining or increasing severe restrictions on travel, including costly and lengthy quarantine rules that deter a return to flying. Read More »

Airbus CEO, Guillaume Faury, when announcing the conglomerate’s annual results for 2020 earlier this month, said: “the decrease in the value of the commercial aircraft backlog reflects the higher number of deliveries compared with order intake, the weakening of the US dollar and an assessment of the backlog’s recoverability”. Read More »

The struggle to defeat the pandemic is tough enough in the Asia-Pacific’s developed countries. Read More »

Qantas Group, unlike several other airlines, will return its A380s to service - when the time is right. The carrier’s’ fleet of 12 of the type is parked at Victorville in California’s Mojave Desert. Read More »

In the last 12 months, the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) duo of director general, Alexandre de Juniac, and chief economist, Brian Pearce, have had the demanding duty of detailing the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy. Read More »

Japan, Korea and China have signed an agreement that has expanded capacity along the heavily trafficked North Asia flight corridor, AKARA. Read More »

New AerCap Holdings chief commercial officer (CCO), Peter Anderson, who has succeeded Philip Scruggs as the lessor’s chief commercial officer, has several years of Asia-Pacific experience under his belt from time spent at ILFC, and then as head of Asia-Pacific during AerCap’s acquisition of the Los Angeles-headquartered rival in 2014. Read More »

Lawyer Annie Petsonk, a tireless and exceptional advocate for the aviation industry’s sustainable goals, is a new executive member of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) following her appointment by President Joe Biden. Read More »

Airbus’s Satair and Honeywell Aerospace in the U.S. have signed a multi-year exclusive commercial agreement for mechanical and air thermal components on 320, 330 and 380 airplanes. Read More »

New Singapore-based head of agency sales for the Asia-Pacific for Travelport, Chua Hui Wan, is no stranger to the technology solutions company. Read More »

Information Technology provider for the air transport industry, SITA, is trialling Health Protect, a technology solution to safely share vaccination and health information between passengers, airports, airlines and governments. Read More »

It is a sad truth global harmonization, more often than not, has been a bridge too far for the aviation industry. Read More »