JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Garuda Indonesia appointed Wamildan Tsani Panjaitan, a top manager at PT Lion Mentari Airlines, as its next chief executive officer as the Southeast Asian nation’s flagship carrier looks to turn a profit and expand its international network. Panjaitan was appointed to the post following Garuda’s extraordinary general meeting on Friday afternoon, according to a...
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signalled that it expects pressure from rising competition to continue despite “robust” demand for air travel. The warning came as the airline reported a substantial fall in profit for the second quarter of its financial year owing to a gap between passenger traffic and newly deployed capacity, as well as rising...
KUALA LUMPUR: Airlines will soon have to provide mandatory full refunds to passengers of flights delayed for at least five hours or more, says Anthony Loke. The Transport Minister said the move, which comes into force from Sept 2, follows amendments to the Malaysian Aviation Commission’s (Mavcom) Malaysian Aviation Consumer Protection Code (MACPC) 2016. He explained that...
LANGKAWI (AP): A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday (March 1) in Pulau Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital and being treated for an infection. King Harald V, Europe's oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalised after he fell ill during a vacation, the royal palace in Oslo announced on Tuesday. There were...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's aviation remains firmly on a trajectory of recovery, with a total of 72 airlines operating actively within Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd’s (MAHB) network of local airports at the end of 2023, representing 9.1 per cent surge from the preceding year. This surge has also resulted in a robust connection to a total of 147...
Aviation sector also facing shortage of other airline staff in growing industry PETALING JAYA: With new routes and increasing demand for air travel, airlines in the country are scrambling to expand and meet this challenge. But while the aviation sector is going full throttle towards pre-Covid-19 levels, there is now a manpower shortage for both pilots and...
IPOH: The decision on Ipoh’s commercial flight routes is up to individual airlines, says a Perak executive councillor. Tourism committee chairman Loh Sze Yee said the airlines will need to conduct research before adding any new routes to Ipoh’s Sultan Azlan Shah Airport. “Right now there are two airlines operating from the airport, namely AirAsia and FlyScoot. “The...
