Asia

The first A380 for ANA has rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg, bearing the airline’s distinctive and unique Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle livery.

Cebu Pacific pushes forward with the expansion of its Cebu hub as well its capacity increase into the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) with the launch of a new route linking Cebu and Macau—providing another access point to and from China’s Pearl River Delta.

Royal Brunei Airlines announced that the national carrier has launched direct scheduled services to Haikou effective 22 November 2018.

Scoot is to take over a number of SilkAir’s routes over the next two years, ahead of SilkAir’s merger into Singapore Airlines.

Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines has decided not to renew its contract with theSkyTeam alliance, as of 1 January 2019.

The A321neo joins an existing Airbus fleet at Vietnam Airlines that currently includes 58 A321ceos, 3 A330s and 12 wide-body A350-900s.

AirAsia will enhance connectivity from Kota Kinabalu with daily direct flights to Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam starting 18 January 2019.

The new airline will be called FlyArystan and it will operate a fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft configured to an all-economy class of 180 seats.

AirAsia X Berhad announced the re-designations of Co-Group CEO Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and Co-Group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes as Non-Executive Directors.

Japan Air Commuter has already taken delivery of five ATR 42-600 aircraft and they are going to introduce first ATR 72-600 in Japan with this delivery