Tiger Airways, which has not flown to Tasmania since it was grounded by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority in July 2011, is considering a return to services in 2012. Tiger is in talks with...
China Southern Airlines announced over the weekend that it will sponsor the Sydney Festival for the next three years from 2013. “China Southern’s $600,000 sponsorship of Sydney Festival 2012 was the a...
Cathay Pacific Airways has ordered six additional A350-900s for delivery between 2016 and 2017. This is in addition to the existing orders for a total of 30 of the same type. The airline remains despe...
Jet Airways has posted its fourth straight quarterly loss on Friday as higher fuel costs continued to hurt its financials. The airline posted a Rs 101.22 crore loss for the December quarter against a ...
Anti-European Union Emissions Trading Scheme countries are meeting in India or Russia next month to discuss retaliatory action to the scheme. Some of the ideas raised to launch joint action include im...
MTU Maintenance Hannover was again selected by Biman Bangladesh Airlines to support its GE CF6-50 engines. The three-year agreement covers 12 engines powering the carrier's fleet of DC-10-30s. ...
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities and Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities have been selected as underwriters for the overseas portion of the Japan Airlines initial public offering (IPO). JAL is planning to ra...
Japan Airlines has appointed Yoshiharu Ueki as president. Ueki, a former pilot who has served JAL for over 30 years, was previously responsible for the airline’s route network. He replaces Masaru Onis...
China Airlines Cargo is expanding its network with additional routes between Osaka and the US, however it recognizes the challenges posed by high fuel costs and maintaining a long-haul cargo operation...
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) load factor in December hit 68.6%, slightly higher than the 67.2% reported in November. However compared with a year ago, the load factor was down 1.2% as the airline put mor...
AirAsia X has announced it will begin daily flights to Sydney in mid-2012 to capitalize on the growing Malaysian market. AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani said: “It's been a long time coming, but we are ...
Chinese carriers earned a collective net profit of CNY26 billion ($4.12 billion) in 2011, down 26% from CNY35.1 billion for 2010 due to a slowing of domestic demand. This however is not the full pictu...
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