Vietnam Airlines has been granted in-principle approval by the government to acquire 50 narrow-body aircraft without requiring a state guarantee. The approval, outlined in an official dispatch from the Government Office reflecting the views of Deputy Prime…
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…
The news that Thai Aerospace Services has been chosen by Honda as the distributor of HondaJet in the SE Asian market has caught public attention. HondaJet was launched in December 2015; the manufacturer received 100 orders from all over the world. The plane…
With the fastest growing ‘super rich’ group in the world, Vietnam is going to be a prime target for the HondaJet. Honda Motor has announced plans to start selling its HondaJet private aircraft in several Southeast Asian markets to capitalize on the region’s…
AirAsia Group has announced it has incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary company to acquire and manage a Bombardier Global Express executive jet. In a statement to the Bursa Malaysia, the conglomerate said AirAsia Corporate Charter (Kuala Lumpur Subang) had…
AirAsia has revived its earlier plan to buy the private jet used by its group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and executive chairman Datuk Kamarudin Meranun, entering another sale and purchase agreement similar to the one inked in June last…
PTT Philippines has renewed its deal to supply the bulk of Cebu Pacific airline’s fuel requirements this year. The local unit of the Thailand petroleum company will supply 1, 680,000 US barrel (267 million liters) of aviation fuel to Cebu Pacific for 2017.…
AirAsia and Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) has inked a component support agreement for the airline’s fleet of Airbus A320neo passenger jets, which is ultimately scheduled to number 304 aircraft. AirAsia took delivery of its…