Recovery Underway In Australia’s Mining Charter Market
Australia’s largest regional carrier Regional Express (Rex) sees that there is a recovery underway in Australia’s mining charter market. The airline’s chairman and major shareholder, Lim Kim Hai, says he is unable to speak for the whole industry, but based…
The Philippines’ Forgotten Airports: Bantayan Airport
The central Philippines’ Bantayan island has a resident population of 126,000 people and is already a popular tourist island with several beach resorts. But interestingly, there are no scheduled air services to this island. To get there from Cebu’s main…
The Philippines’ Forgotten Airports: Ubay Airport
Bohol is a large island in the southern Philippines, spanning 4800 square kilometres, but it is currently only served by one airport, Tagbilaran Airport. However, plans are underway to develop a forgotten airport in Ubay, in the island’s northeast. Ubay…
Australia’s Alliance Airlines Continues To Add Fokkers
Australia’s Alliance Airlines, the world’s largest operator of Fokker aircraft, is continuing to add more of these aircraft. The airline’s managing director, Scott McMillan, says the carrier will be taking delivery of one Fokker 70 and two Fokker 100s by…
Best On The Web – 18th to 24th September 2017
In this issue we have an interesting round-up of news that include Bombardier, Boeing, Sriwijaya Air, the Malaysian state of Perak, and the US government. 1. US government decision on CSeries tariffs is imminent Source: The Globe and Mail The…
Indonesia’s NAM Air Using ATRs For West Papua
Sriwijaya Group’s NAM Air is adding another four ATR 72-600s this year, which will increase its ATR fleet to six, says NAM Air president director, Jeff Jauwena. NAM is using the ATR 72-600s to expand operations in West Papua, he…
