The Karnataka government is looking at Rs 10,000 crore investments in the aerospace sector by the end of next year, a top official has confirmed. "From the present Rs 5,000 crore in aerospace secto...
Tonle Sap Airline has carried out its first chartered flight yesterday. The airline was granted a two-year licence to operate just last month and completed a flight from Siem Reap to Taiwan late la...
PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) and Standard Chartered Bank have closed a sale and leaseback agreements for four Boeing 737-800s. The bank assisted the airline in acquiring and leasing the aircraft t...
Australia's newest full-service carrier, Strategic Airlines, starts flights to Phuket on February 22. The airline will offer two non-stop weekly services each between Melbourne and Brisbane to Phuk...
Qantas chief executive, Alan Joyce, has indicated that the airline is considering a joint venture with a Chinese carrier to reinvigorate its international services. “We know that joint ventures wi...
Cebu Pacific is planning to hire a total of 305 workers as part of its expansion plans. The new roles include 75 pilots, 200 cabin crew, 10 mechanics and engineers, and 20 ground support crew in th...
GE Aviation has signed a 20-year technical solutions agreement with Air India. 'As part of the solution agreement, GE will provide Air India with comprehensive material support, training and assista...
Jet Airways plans to repay about Rs1000 crore of debt each fiscal and will seek to prepay some of its high-cost rupee debt. The costly Indian rupee debt, of around Rs2000-3000 crore, will be repaid...
New Zealand charter airline Air National has been grounded because of safety concerns. The Civil Aviation Authority has imposed a 10-day suspension of Air National's corporate air operating certifi...
A Federal court in Sydney has ruled that documents detailing commercial contracts between Airbus and Qantas relating to the purchase of its fleet of A380s will remain confidential. Airbus's lawyer...
Singapore Airlines has confirmed an incident reported in January that the crew of one of its A380s detected the smell of smoke in a toilet just before landing safely in Singapore. A Singapore Airl...
Indonesian airline Lion Air is aiming to raise more than $1 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) in 2012. Rusdi Kirana, chief executive told Reuters, that the airline plans to use the “IPO mo...
We're Social