Category: Asia & Pacific

Vietjet and Airbus To Establish A320 Flight & Maintenance Training Services

Reading Time: < 1 minute Airbus has signed an agreement to provide flight and maintenance training services to Vietjet in Ho Chi Minh City. With this agreement, Vietjet‘s flight training centre will host an Airbus A320 Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) to conduct flight crew training for its A320 family fleet. In addition, the agreement provides Maintenance training services via the Airbus […]

Airways Aviation Opens Two New Schools in Asia-Pacific

Reading Time: < 1 minute Airways Aviation will open a further two foundation schools in Asia in March 2016; one in Taiwan and one in Bangladesh, bringing the total number of its foundation schools to 16. According to the trainer, there are plans for 30 more in coming 18 months. The ATO has also recently announced that its Gold Coast-based […]

Indian Fighter Pilots Taking Special Pills

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Indian Air Force (IAF) has acquired some new weapons to strengthen its armoury. These are not hypersonic cruise missiles or bunker-bursting ‘smart’ bombs, but ‘Go/No-Go’ pills. According to sources close to the IAF, Indian fighter pilots are using these pills to boost their alertness levels and cognitive powers. As Go/No-Go pills also help people […]

Malaysia Airlines Not Selling Its A380 Planes

Reading Time: 2 minutes Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has delayed plans to sell some of its Airbus A380 jumbo jets, and will now keep all six of them at least until 2018 after retiring its fleet of Boeing 777s, said its chief executive. The Kuala Lumpur-based carrier has tried to unsuccessfully sell the planes for the last year to cut […]

Airbus A320 Neo vs Boeing 737 MAX

Reading Time: 5 minutes The future of single-aisle aircraft is taking flight with Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX– creating better, more efficient ways for airlines and passengers to fly. In today’s aerospace market, the MAX and the Neo are the best-selling products for both manufacturers. The Boeing and Airbus fight to rule the market has already started. Both […]

Indonesia Introduces Aging Aircraft Ban

Reading Time: 4 minutes A new Indonesian Ministry of Transportation (MOT) rule banning the import of any commercial passenger aircraft more than 10 years old and freighters more than 15 years old amounts to merely a cosmetic exercise, according to a senior aviation technical executive, while a ban on any aircraft more than 30 years old appeared likely to […]

Private Airport Operators Seek Tax Relief in India

Reading Time: 2 minutes Private airport operators have sough tax relief in the forthcoming budget on the grounds that airports help in easy connectivity apart from boosting tourism. In a memorandum to the Finance Ministry, the Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) urged the government to allow private airports to raise funds through tax-free bonds and sought a host […]

Myanmar Air Force B1900 Crashed Near Naypyidaw

Reading Time: < 1 minute The propeller aircraft crashed immediately after taking off at Naypyidaw International Airport leaving all five people on board dead. Very soon after getting airborne on runway 34 at Naypyidaw International Airport, the twin-prop Beechcraft 1900D lost height and impacted open, flat terrain approximately less than a kilometer north of the airport. The Beech 1900 disintegrated […]

Somali Authorities: Daallo Airlines A321 Explosion Caused by Bomb

Reading Time: < 1 minute Somali authorities say the Feb. 2 onboard explosion of a Djibouti-based Daallo Airlines Airbus A321-100, en route from Mogadishu to Djibouti, was caused by a bomb. “We have confirmed that it was a bomb. It was meant to kill all aboard,” Somali Minister for Transport and Aviation Ali Ahmed Jamac said during a news conference, […]

Australian Aviation Market Grows Together with Asia-Pacific Region

Reading Time: 4 minutes The first part of Australia’s series “Is it time to change Australian aviation rules?” discussed why Australia is changing its aviation rules in order to make it closer to ICAO and European standards. Overall, the change is a great achievement for Australia as it is moving side by side with the international standards. The question […]