Aviation

AirAsia has placed orders for 592 A320 Family aircraft. Following the upsizing, AirAsia’s backlog with Airbus includes 353 A321neo.

The inaugural 2019 AT@China is co-organized by Travel Link and G&W Consulting and is supported by International Cooperation and Service Center, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

The carrier aims to accelerate its replacement of existing A320 and A330ceo aircraft with this order, and is expecting an all-Airbus NEO jet fleet by 2024.

This extensive retrofit programme, which was announced in November 2017, sees the cabin products selected for SIA’s five recently delivered A380 aircraft installed on the airline’s in- service aircraft.

Korean Air signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 18 June to purchase 30 Boeing wide-body aircraft.

ST Engineering has developed an unmanned drone system, known as DroScan, which sees a drone take a planned route around the outside of an aircraft to inspect its surface and produce high definition images.

Altogether, JAL has ordered 31 A350 XWB aircraft, comprising 18 A350-900s and 13 A350-1000s.

Beginning 29 October 2019, THAI will operate roundtrip flights from Bangkok-Sendai at three flights per week, utilizing Boeing 777-200 aircraft with 30 seats in Royal Silk Class and 279 seats in Economy Class.

THAI Market Place 2019 has been held at four venues which are Central Festival Phuket, Central Festival Eastville, Centralworld in Bangkok and Central Plaza Khonkaen.

The new route is in line with the carrier’s plans to expand its route network in China to cater to increasing demand for leisure and business travel.