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Lao Airlines to fly Chinese-made jet
Published on 26/03/2025
» Government-owned Lao Airlines is preparing to start operating the Comac C909 regional jet, a spokesperson said, joining several other Southeast Asian carriers planning to add Chinese-made commercial aircraft to their fleets.
Bangkok Airways seeks 30 new jets to tap tourism boom
Published on 19/03/2025
» Bangkok Airways is gearing up to order as many as 30 new aircraft as it renews its ageing fleet and plans for a tourism boost driven by the popularity of the television series The White Lotus.
Trump tariff storm batters Asian shares
Business, Published on 01/03/2025
» RECAP: Emerging Asian markets got swept up in the global equities storm yesterday, with Thai and Indonesian stocks teetering on the brink of a bear market as President Donald Trump's latest tariff threats sent risk assets reeling.
Japan’s ANA to buy at least 77 jets
Published on 25/02/2025
» ANA, Japan’s largest airline, will spend $14.5 billion to buy 77 aircraft from Boeing, Airbus and Embraer in a rare simultaneous deal with the world’s top three commercial planemakers.
2 plane crashes lead to deadliest year in skies since 2018
Published on 30/12/2024
» Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane.
Azerbaijan's president says crashed plane was shot at from Russia
Published on 29/12/2024
» BAKU/MOSCOW - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said some in Russia had lied about the cause of the disaster.
Azerbaijani plane passengers describe ‘loud bangs’
Published on 27/12/2024
» BAKU, Azerbaijan - Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia.
Azerbaijan Airlines suspends flights to Russian cities after Kazakhstan crash
Reuters, Published on 27/12/2024
» MOSCOW - Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that it was suspending flights to seven Russian cities, Russian media reported, after one of its planes crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday during a flight to Grozny, in Russia's Chechnya.
Azerbaijan plane ‘downed by Russian air defence’
Published on 26/12/2024
» BAKU, Azerbaijan - An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation have told Reuters.
Many feared dead in Kazakhstan plane crash
Published on 25/12/2024
» ASTANA, Kazakhstan - An Embraer passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities said, adding that 32 survivors had been rescued.