Goh Choon Phong, the new CEO of Singapore Airlines, has stated the airline is considering selling its 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic. The outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng called SIA’s investment “underperfo...
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is planning to set up its first regional hub in Turkey in order present an expanded global network to better compete with Gulf-based carriers. To this end, PIA ha...
Qantas has been given the all clear by engine manufactuer Rolls-Royce to operate its A380 aircraft at full payload on the Los Angeles route. But according to the airline it has yet to begin talks with...
Vijaya Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines is facing a shortage of pilots as it increases services as swaths of them have left and joined other carriers during the last two years as services were cut bac...
Taiwan's two leading international airlines slid back heavily in trading yesterday amid concerns that rising international crude oil prices and poor weather conditions in Europe and the USA will impac...
Asiana Airlines has placed an order with Airbus for six A380s, value at around $2 billion at 2010 list prices. Airbus said that the South Korean carrier would make its engine decision "in the near fut...
IT company Ramco Systems has won an order from MAS GMR Aerospace Engineering Company for its airframe Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) services. MAS GMR Aerospace Engineering is a 50:50 joint vent...
President Aquino is set to issue this week an executive order authorizing the gradual liberalization of the country’s civil aviation industry in a bid to attract more tourists and investors. The Presi...
Garuda Indonesia has begun pre-marketing for a $500 million initial public offering (IPO), an increase on the $400 million that Emirsyah Satar, Garuda's president director, announced to investors in N...
Malaysian airline Firefly has announced plans to expand its services in Asean – the association of ten Southeast Asian nations – from the third quarter of 2012. Datuk Eddy Leong, managing director of ...
China Eastern Airlines has stated its net profits for 2010 should be more than 10 times that of 2009 thanks to the rising demand for air travel in China and Asia. Net profit for the airline in 2009 we...
The Indian Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved an infusion of $267 million for beleaguered state carrier Air India. The carrier, which posted an operational profit of $4.9 milli...
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