Asia Pacific carriers remain under pressure in a market characterized by intense competition and robust growth of both passenger and cargo traffic.  Despite underlying political, economic and security risks, the region’s carriers are well-placed to capture the market opportunities in …

DSNA, the French Air Navigation Service provider, and IATA, the International Air Transport Association, have agreed to cooperate on the development of a French Air Traffic Management (ATM) Strategy (FAS).     In 2016, DSNA was the first European ANSP …

Airbus, the worldwide leader in aeronautics, space and related services and the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), the leading global organisation for engineering education, have announced the recipient of the 2017 GEDC Airbus Diversity Award . Japan’s Kyushu Institute of …

  At the first joint job exchange between airberlin and the Berlin Nord Employment Agency on Tuesday, more than 500 open positions at companies in Berlin and Brandenburg were offered to airberlin employees. Several hundred airberlin employees took advantage of …

The airlines of the Lufthansa Group welcomed around 12.7 million passengers in September 2017. This shows an increase of 17.8% compared to the previous year’s month. The available seat kilometers were up 11% over the previous year, at the same …

WestJet today officially unveiled its first Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, one of 50 scheduled for delivery in the next four years.     “We are proud to make history as the first Canadian airline to receive the Boeing 737 …

Sepang Aircraft Engineering (SAE), an MRO centre based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, partially owned by Airbus since 2011, has become a fully owned Airbus subsidiary, following the acquisition by Airbus of its remaining shares.   With this acquisition, SAE becomes …

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced that IATA’s Cargo-XML messaging standard has been fully integrated into WCO’s Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS), a risk assessment tool available to WCO member countries worldwide.   …

SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will be taking over five-times-weekly services to Yangon, Myanmar, that are currently operated by the SIA Group’s low-cost subsidiary Scoot, from 29 October 2017.     SilkAir already operates 10 non-stop flights a …

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new route from Poznan to the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. Commencing on 31 March 2018, the newest WIZZ service will be operated with three weekly flights, …