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Retail Asia01/03/2019

Three major aviation deals were signed Wednesday in the presence of Vietnamese and U.S. presidents Nguyen Phu Trong and Donald Trump. Budget airline Vietjet signed with U.S. airplane manufacturer Boeing Company a deal to buy 100 new narrow-body 737 MAX airplanes worth $12.7 billion, according to the manufacturer’s list prices. “The deal is an important […]

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Retail Asia26/02/2019

Asiana Airlines and its pilot labor union jointly announced their vision for safe airline operations, the airline said Friday. During a ceremony held for the announcement Thursday, they vowed to strengthen communications for safe flight operations and cooperate in enhancing airline sustainability. The ceremony was held at the company headquarters in Gangseo District, western Seoul. […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2019

AirAsia X Bhd suffered a net loss of RM99.27 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, 2018 compared with a net profit of RM84.42 million a year ago due to higher fuel prices. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, the airline reported an increase in average fuel price to US$89 per barrel during the […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2019

Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet will sign next week a deal to buy 100 narrow-body Boeing aircraft. The signing will take place on the sidelines of the upcoming Trump-Kim summit, sources said. The sources also said Vietjet will finalize next week a provisional deal agreed last year to buy 100 narrow-body Boeing 737 MAX jets worth […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2019

Air Asia is the world’s largest and best low-cost carrier (They have won awards for the last 10 years). Air Asia X, their low-cost long haul carrier has built a route network spanning from the middle east to southern Australia. But many people in the US have never had a chance to fly on Air Asia, […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2019

Air Asia has claimed that Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) has turned down their offer of mediation, in a letter sent by the airport operator’s lawyers. The airline said that in an attempt to resolve the parties’ ongoing dispute over passenger service charges at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2), they had proposed mediation to MAHB. […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2019

Budget airline Vietjet said Saturday it will launch direct flights between Phu Quoc Island and Hong Kong in April. The new route will operate four flights per week starting from April 19, Vietjet said. Each flight will take 2 hours and 45 minutes per leg. Dubbed “the Pearl Island”, Phu Quoc, located in the southern […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2019

Korean Air Lines said Tuesday it swung to a net loss in 2018 from a year earlier due to hefty foreign-exchange losses. The Korean flag carrier posted a net loss of 167.59 billion won ($150 million), after a net profit of 801.9 billion won a year earlier. As the dollar rose to 1,118.1 won at […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2019

AirAsia has further strengthened Malaysia-Thailand connectivity with the launch of a new route from Kuala Lumpur to Chiang Rai, its seventh and newest hub in Thailand. AirAsia Thailand, which will base an Airbus A320ceo at Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang International Airport, will also operate new services to Phuket, Singapore and Macau, providing a massive […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2019

AirAsia Group Bhd Consolidated AOCs carried a total of 12.1 million passengers in the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, 2018 (4Q18), reflecting a 16% growth from 10.4 million passengers carried a year ago. During the quarter, load factor was 4 percentage points lower at 84% from 88% a year ago, due to significant increase in […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2019

AirAsia Group Bhd and its affiliate AirAsia X Bhd are seeking over RM400 million in counterclaims against Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB) in relation to the suit filed against them over the passenger service charges (PSC) collection. AirAsia and AirAsia X told Bursa Malaysia that they had filed a statement of defence against Malaysia Airports […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2019

Bamboo Airways, Vietnam’s newest airline, has begun ticket sales and its first flight is scheduled to take off next Wednesday. The airline has just officially opened ticket sales on Saturday. It has three ticket classes, Economy, Flexible Economy and Business Class, and unlike other low-cost carriers like VietJet and Jetstar Pacific, all passengers will be served […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2019

Vietnam’s newest airline, Bamboo Airways, has received a certificate that allows it to operate aircraft for commercial purposes. The Vietnam Civil Aviation Authority Tuesday granted the Aircraft Operator Certificate (AOC) to Bamboo Airways. The AOC is a certificate approved by a regulatory authority that allows a carrier to operate aircraft for commercial purposes within a […]

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Retail Asia08/01/2019

Flying cheap will soon also mean flying light for many Indonesians after the country’s largest airline, Lion Air, and its subsidiary, Wings Air, decided to start charging for checked baggage on all their domestic flights from today. The airlines, which together served around half of the archipelago’s air travelers last year, will only allow one piece […]

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Retail Asia03/01/2019

Malaysian discount carrier AirAsia Group won’t open any new airline in the next three years and will focus on current operations after its proposed Vietnam launch, Group CEO Tony Fernandes said Wednesday. “After Vietnam, we will focus on what we have,” Fernandes said in a twitter post. “Focus this year is to make Indonesia and Philippines […]

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Retail Asia02/01/2019

AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes says the group has no plans to establish new subsidiaries over the next three years, apart from a unit in Vietnam. In a series of tweets, Fernandes says the low-cost carrier will focus its efforts on launching AirAsia Vietnam, as well as making Indonesia AirAsia and AirAsia Philippines “very profitable”. Last December, AirAsia signed a memorandum of cooperation […]

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Retail Asia31/12/2018

Vietnam’s newest airline Bamboo Airways will not operate its maiden flight Thursday as scheduled, the second time it has been delayed. Its CEO Dang Tat Thanh said Bamboo Airways could not take off since it is going through “the most difficult examination ever.” “Bamboo Airways is currently going through the final stage of a tight examination […]

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Retail Asia27/12/2018

Korea’s air passenger traffic reached a new record for November on the back of the rise in the number of Chinese tourists and increased overseas travel demand, government data showed Tuesday. The number of air passengers came to 9.57 million last month, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier, making it a new record for […]

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Retail Asia26/12/2018

AirAsia Group Bhd is disposing of its entire stake in Merah Aviation Asset Holding Ltd to AS Air Lease Holdings 5T DAC for US$768 million (RM3.22 billion). AS Air Lease is indirectly owned by Castlelake LP, a US-based global private investment firm and leader in aircraft ownership and servicing. AirAsia told Bura Malaysia that its […]

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Retail Asia21/12/2018

Vietjet continues to solidify its presence in Vietnam this holiday season with the announcement of its newest route connecting Ho Chi Minh City with Van Don (Quang Ninh Province). Bridging the gap between Vietnam’s largest city and the attractive island district in Quang Ninh Province, the new route will serve to meet the growing travel […]

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