Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, said overnight the airline had not given up mounting ultra-long-haul nonstop flights to London, New York and elsewhere from Australia's east coast. Read More »

Philippine Airlines (PAL) said yesterday it would eliminate 2,300 jobs, representing 30% of the company's workforce, in a series of “voluntary separations and involuntary retrenchment”, following a comprehensive system-wide review of the company’s operations. Read More »

China Eastern Airlines (CEA) said in a regulatory filing yesterday it planned to raise up to 10.828 billion yuan (US$1.68 billion) in fresh capital with the issue of 2,494,930,875 new shares, at 4.34 yuan per share, to CEA Holding. Read More »

The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) said overnight 52% of respondents to its January 2021 business confidence survey expected net losses to diminish in the next 12 months. Read More »

Boeing has delayed first delivery of its 737 MAX 10 narrow-body by two years, to 2023, the company's 2020 annual report, published on Monday, has revealed. Additionally, the 737 MAX 7's first delivery will be this year rather than in 2020. Read More »

Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), told Reuters news agency yesterday five components of the Sriwijaya Air 737-500 that crashed into the Java Sea after take-off from Jakarta on January 9 have been sent to its counterparts in the UK and the U.S. for additional analysis. Read More »