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APRIL 2024

Week 18

Orient Aviation Daily Digest April 30, 2024

By Ryan Chase

 

News

COMAC books C919 order with China’s largest airline

China Southern Airlines (CSA) has signed a purchase agreement with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) for 100 C919s. Read More »


 


 

News

AirAsia X records 90% increase in passengers flown in latest quarter

Malaysia-based AirAsia X (AAX) flew 959,623 passengers in the three months to March 31 against 504,476 passengers in the same months a year ago. Read More »


 


 

News

Batik Air Malaysia removes Istanbul from network

Batik Air Malaysia will suspend nonstop Kuala Lumpur -Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport from May 1, less than three months after it launched the route. Read More »


 

News

Hong Kong Airlines returns to Saipan

Hong Kong Airlines is to resume nonstop twice a week Hong Kong-Saipan. Read More »


 

News

AirAsia Group airlines report 15.4 million passengers for first quarter 2024

AirAsia’s operating airlines in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand carried a combined 15.4 million passengers in the three months to March 31 up 17% from the 13.2 million air travellers they transported in the first quarter of 2023. Read More »


 

News

Air Seychelles and SriLankan Airlines agree to code-share

Air Seychelles and SriLankan Airlines are to code share on flights to 20 destinations in the Asia-Pacific and Africa. Read More »


 

People

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, parent company of LCC IndiGo, has appointed Isidro Pablo Porqueras Orea chief of transformation. Read More »


 

Asia-Pacific Aerospace Briefs Today

Today's briefs report news from Boeing, Changi Airports International, Dubai International Airport, Malaysia Aviation Group, Turkish Airlines and Wuxi Sunan International Airport Group Co. Ltd. Read More »


 

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