Category: Asia & Pacific

Indonesia, US Cooperate To Develop Aviation Safety System

Reading Time: 2 minutes The US Trade and Development Agency ( USTDA ) has provided a grant to help Indonesia develop its aviation safety systems in eastern areas of the country. The US Embassy’s counselor for commercial affairs, Rosemary Gallant, who represents USTDA, and the Transportation Ministry’s civil aviation director general, Suprasetyo, signed the grant agreement in Jakarta on […]

GoAir Takes Delivery of Its First of 72 A320neo Aircraft

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mumbai, India based GoAir has taken delivery of its first A320neo aircraft, becoming the world’s third operator to do so. The A320neo powered by Pratt and Whitney engines, is the first of 72 A320neo on order and joins GoAir’s existing fleet of 19 A320 aircraft. The aircraft is configured in a conformable layout and is […]

AirAsia X Welcomes Two New Airbus A330-300 Aircraft

Reading Time: < 1 minute AirAsia X Bhd has recently welcomed two brand new Airbus A330-300 aircraft into its fleet in Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2), bringing its total fleet to 31 aircraft. Both aircraft with the registration numbers 9M-XBA and 9M-XBB were delivered from the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France to Kuala Lumpur on May 14 and 28 […]

ExecuJet Enhances Maintenance Support in the Middle East and India

Reading Time: < 1 minute ExecuJet Middle East is extending maintenance capabilities at its Line Station, located at Al Maktoum International (DWC), Dubai South and at its recently established India MRO facility, located at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. ExecuJet’s Line Station at DWC is now manned 12 hours a day, seven days a week, providing full line […]

Hong Kong Air Passengers to Pay Fee From August to Fund Third Runway

Reading Time: 2 minutes Air travellers will pay a fee starting from August to fund construction of the airport’s third runway when initial reclamation work begins on the project, the Airport Authority said on Monday. Outbound and transit passengers will pay up to HK$180 towards the expansion at Hong Kong International Airport, which is due to be completed by […]

Cathay Pacific Takes Delivery Of First A350

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cathay Pacific has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350, with A350-900 B-LRA touching down at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday morning after a nonstop flight from Toulouse. Flight tracking website flightradar24.com shows B-LRA departing Toulouse at 2:16pm on Saturday, touching down at Cathay Pacific’s home base of Hong Kong at 7:53am on Sunday, […]

Korean Air Jet Engine Catches Fire at Haneda Forcing Evacuation

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Korean Air Lines Co. plane was evacuated at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after an engine caught fire Friday. All 302 passengers and 17 crew members disembarked, Kyosuke Okada, a spokesman for Japan’s transport ministry said by telephone Friday. Seven people were injured on the Boeing Co. 777 plane which was about to depart to Seoul […]

International Debut for IASO

Reading Time: < 1 minute A new non-profit organization, the International Aviation Services Organization (IASO), was unveiled, coinciding with the first day of EBACE. IASO’s mission is to provide a unified voice for aviation services companies at airports around the world. Created by a Board of Directors with decades of international industry experience, the organization will champion key issues affecting […]

Air China Introduces Its First Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Boeing and Air China officially unveiled the airline’s first 787-9 Dreamliner to the public at a grand ceremony in Beijing. The national flag carrier is the first airline in the country to have a 787-9 enter into service. “The 787-9 Dreamliner employs a multitude of cutting-edge technologies best represented by its electronic handling system and […]

Xiaomi’s New Drone Is Astonishingly Cheap—But It Won’t Save Xiaomi

Reading Time: 3 minutes Yesterday China’s Xiaomi announced its latest product—a drone priced at 2999 yuan ($456) for a model with a 4k camera, and 2499 yuan ($380) for a version with a lower resolution 1080p camera. Xiaomi says that a pre-orders will begin for the 1080p version today, while a beta version for the 4k version will be […]