Bangkok Airways Aims To Replace Older ATRs With New Model
Bangkok Airways appears likely to replace its remaining ATR 72-500s with ATR 72-600s in future to ensure greater fleet commonality. “We aim to replace all -500s with -600s in the future,” says an airline spokesman, adding that “it will be…
Best On The Web | 16-31 October 2017
In this issue we have an interesting round-up of news that includes stories on ‘bush planes’ in Indonesia and India, efforts to open Indonesia’s famous Raja Ampat islands to international tourists and a story on Nok Air’s continued expansion with…
China To Reportedly Buy Q400 Program
A report on Canadian aerospace news blog Flieger Faust, citing unnamed sources at Bombardier, says the Q400 program is being sold to China. We tend to believe that this report is accurate, because the Canadian writer does appear to have…
Is Garuda’s Singapore-Silangit Service Sustainable?
Garuda Indonesia has launched its thrice-weekly Singapore-Silangit regular charter service with around 60 passengers on board the inaugural flight. Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs, Luhut Pandjaitan, as well as tourism minister Arief Yahya and transport minister, Budi Karya Sumadi,…
Indonesian Carriers Hampered By Bad Airports
Poor airport infrastructure coupled with higher airport fees is adding to the increasing financial pressure many Indonesian carriers face. At the Indonesian Air Carriers’ Association (INACA) annual general meeting in Jakarta (October 26) officials from the association highlighted that airline…
Viewpoint: Airbus-Bombardier Partnership May Spur Leonardo To Do Its Own Turboprop Aircraft
Airbus’ decision to take a 50.01% stake in Bombardier’s CSeries program could have some major ramifications for ATR, Airbus’ other joint-venture in the regional aircraft market. Leonardo of Italy has been lobbying for years now to develop new turboprop aircraft…
