Articles tagged “Asia-Pacific”

Air New Zealand had the nonstop market between Auckland and New York all to itself for all of five months last year. Then, as a precursor to its own nonstop…

Discount carrier Bonza has received approval from Australian authorities to begin revenue passenger flights, clearing the way for the country's first new national carrier in more than a decade.

Worldwide passenger traffic in November reached 75 percent of its November 2019 level, according to new data from IATA, the airline industry’s international trade association. That’s traffic measured by revenue…

The Chinese government will lift Covid-era travel restrictions this weekend, on January 8. While international travel demand to the country is expected to surge, airline schedules will take some time…

Virgin Australia has emerged a much stronger airline from the Covid-19 pandemic than it was at the outset of the crisis. A court-led restructuring of Australia's second largest carrier created…

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or Comac, delivered its first C919 on Dec. 9, following more than a decade of development. The plane, now in the fleet of Shanghai-based China…

The pandemic has wrought big changes on Southeast Asia's largest budget airline, AirAsia. The collection of carriers, primarily owned by Malaysia's Capital A, is preparing to launch a new airline…

EasyJet is making good on its recovery plan. From expanding at slot-constrained airports like Lisbon and opening new seasonal bases in Greece, the airline is on its way back to…

Singapore Airlines plans a partnership with its long-troubled neighbor Thai Airways, in a strategic move that comes just days after it revealed plans to take a 25 percent stake in…

The wave of post-pandemic airline consolidation is coming to India. Air India and Vistara will merge under a deal between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines that also secures the latter's…