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Philippine Airlines, under the leadership of banking and tobacco magnate Lucio Tan, intends to acquire up to 20 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner jets as the company upgrades its fleet in response to increased demand in air travel. The national airline has committed…
Vietnam Airlines and Sun PhuQuoc Airways have entered into a significant agreement to acquire a total of 90 Boeing aircraft in a deal estimated to be worth over US$30 billion. The high-profile contract signing event was held in Washington, D.C., with the…
DHL Aviation recently debuted two fully branded Boeing 737-400 aircraft at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, marking a significant step forward in the company’s ongoing enhancement of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) logistics infrastructure. The…
SpaceX, Netflix and Boeing are among the companies joining the “biggest-ever” U.S. business mission to Vietnam next week to discuss investment and sales opportunities in the booming Southeast Asian nation, the organizer said. More than 50 companies, including…
One of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers, Boeing, says it wants to develop its supply chain Vietnam by making more domestic businesses its suppliers. At the Boeing Aerospace Industry Forum held in Hanoi Thursday, Michael Nguyen, general director of…
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has proposed that the Boeing 737 Max aircraft be allowed to operate and imported to the country after a ban of over two years. The CAAV petitioned the Ministry of Transport to consider greenlighting the aircraft after…
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways will sign a deal valued at nearly $2 billion with General Electric to purchase GEnx engines to power Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, the airline said on Tuesday. The GEnx engines, due to be delivered in 2022, will be used on the…
Vietnam’s Transport Ministry has allowed the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to pass through the country’s airspace after two years. The decision was taken following a proposal made by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) last month, citing Boeing’s efforts…
Breaking news coming from Jakarta that Garuda Indonesia has canceled their order for 49 Boeing 737 MAX placed a few years ago. This comes after two disastrous 737 MAX crashes and a worldwide grounding of the aircraft for safety reasons. Garuda operates over…
Vietjet does not operate any flights with Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. We are currently operating with a fleet entirely composed of new Airbus aircraft from the A320 family aircraft. The average age of our fleet is 2.82 years. We are also using latest generation…
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…
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…
Budget carrier Vietjet Air plans a fleet age average of three years to keep fuel and maintenance costs low. Vietjet Air is in negotiations to firm up the deal after ordering 100 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and 50 Airbus A321neo aircraft at the Farnborough…
Vietjet is set to finalize a $6.5 billion jet order with Airbus during a visit to Hanoi by French PM Edouard Philippe on Friday. The order for 50 A321neo jets is part of an aggressive investment in the Vietnamese fast-growing budget carrier Vietjet’s fleet…
Singapore Airlines welcomed the world’s first 787-10 aircraft as it arrived in Singapore from Boeing’s production facility in North Charleston, South Carolina. The newest variant of Boeing’s Dreamliner family of aircraft was received at an arrival ceremony at…
China signed an agreement Thursday to buy 300 airplanes from U.S. aerospace giant Boeing valued over $37 billion, as part of a multi-billion dollar raft of deals announced during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. The agreement for China Aviation…
