30% STAKE IN AIR MEKONG OFFERED TO SKYWEST
New airline Air Mekong has submitted a plan to raise its chartered capital by selling a 30% stake to US airline SkyWest for approval by the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport. Air Mekong, which launched...
New airline Air Mekong has submitted a plan to raise its chartered capital by selling a 30% stake to US airline SkyWest for approval by the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport. Air Mekong, which launched...
SITA, the airline IT specialist, today announced that China Eastern Airlines has gone live with a worldwide corporate network solution to support its global expansion plans as it merges with Shanghai ...
The Reserve Bank of India has said that foreign airlines cannot route collections from online tickets sales in India directly to foreign bank accounts. At present, some airlines give Indian passengers...
The Chinese government has raised domestic jet fuel prices to CNY6,840 ($1,045) per ton, up 7.9% from CNY6,340 per ton in February. Most Chinese carriers have announced increased fuel surcharges on do...
Japan Airlines (JAL) said it will offer a limited number of administrative and maintenance staff, pilots and flight attendants special unpaid leave during the months of May and June 2011. This is due ...
Commercial Aircraft Engine Co (part of AVIC) is accelerating the research and development of a second engine option for the COMAC C919. This engine will be a domestic engine of choice no doubt if it c...
Virgin Blue has settled out of court with Navitaire, the IT company deemed responsible for a failure in the airline’s system last year. The airline said it had reached a “mutually exclusive” agreement...
Singapore Airlines has eliminated extra stops on Tokyo flights introduced after the March 11 earthquake. Flights serving Haneda Airport and Narita Airport are now operating non-stop. Qantas Airways an...
New regulations governing duty hours for pilots in India could mean that airlines may need to hire 15-20% more pilots than they currently have on their rolls. Government officials have stated that the...
Philippine Airlines has reassured passengers that it is prepared to deal with the repeated threat of their ground workers to go on strike. The carrier says it has contingency plans in place to make su...
The Indian civil aviation ministry is considering spinning off the aircraft maintenance and ground-handling services of Air India into separate business units in a bid to help the cash-strapped airlin...
Indonesia’s national airline Garuda posted net profits of 515.50 billion rupiah ($59.2 million) in 2010, a 40% drop on the previous year. Revenue rose 9.4% to 19.5 trillion rupiah and the airline carr...
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