"ANA gets lift from new Tokyo routes" from Wall Street Journal

"Tokyo - All Nippon Airways Co. swung to a profit in the October-December quarter from a loss a year earlier, as new routes from Tokyo's Haneda Airport contributed to a surge in international-passenger traffic."

"Kenya and Sri Lanka sign air traffic deal" from Business Daily

"Kenya has opened the way for local airlines to launch direct flights to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after it signed a bilateral air services agreement that allows access to its skies."

"Ryanair adds four new services at Manchester Airport" from Reuters

"Ryanair has announced it is to add four new routes from Manchester Airport and increase the frequency of its Manchester to Dublin service to six flights daily. The four new Manchester services will operate to Alicante, Faro, Madrid and Tenerife.

"Given the severe weather, easyJet and Ryanair's traffic statistics are broadly in line with our expectations," said Joshua Goldman, equity analyst at Dublin based broker Davy." from Proactive Investors

"New Ryanair routes unveiled from Doncaster airport" from BBC

"From March, Ryanair is to start new flights to Faro in Portugal and Tenerife in the Canary Islands."

"Airline opens flights from Bristol to Dublin" from BBC

"Two airlines have announced they will begin flying between Bristol Airport and Dublin with the option of onward connections to America."

"Frankfurt airport's operator says passenger figures at the hub were up nearly 6 percent in November compared with a year earlier." from Bloomberg

"Airbus has predicted that it will deliver 26,000 aircraft by 2029 as part of its new 20-year forecast." from Travel Daily UK

"China has driven surging airline profitability this year, with Asia-Pacific airlines expected to post combined profits of US$7.7 billion for 2010 to make the region the world's biggest airline market, latest indusrty figures show." from South China Morning Post

"Trainee pilots to pay own way at Southern" from South China Morning Post

"China Southern Airlines, Asia's largest airline, plans to fast-check its pilot certification programme by hiring high school and university graduates willing to pay their own 730,000 yuan (HK852,000) tuition fees."


"Mainland carriers , which are set to double their fleet size to 5,000 aircraft by 2015, are struggling to fill the gap between their growing demand for pilots and the projected supply of aviators from existing training programmes."


"China Southern, the only mainland airline with a dedicated flight training school, has attempted to address the problem of pilot shortages. The Guangzhou-based airline company set up a flight training school in Perth, Australia in 1993 and joined forces with Beihang University in Beijing to run the Flying College of Beihang University in the same year."

"Get your boarding pass the smartphone way" from South China Morning Post

"Shareholders approve Iberia-BA merger" from South China Morning Post

Iberia shareholders approved the Spanish flag carrier's landmark multibillion-euro merger with British Airways that will create Europe's second biggest airline."

"Air China orders engines" from South China Morning Post

"Rolls-Royce said yesterday it had won a US$1.8 billion order from Air China to provide engines to power 20 new aircraft."

"Mainland airlines fly 12.7pc more passengers in October" from South China Morning Post

"Bombardier expects sales of small jets to triple" from South China Morning Post

"A massive increase in airport capacity, with 90 new airports due to open in the next 10 years, will help triple the size of the mainland's market for small jets, according to leading manufacturer Bombardier."


"He said Bombardier had already worked with the Civil Aviation Administration of China on a computer analysis of operating a C-series aircraft in hot and high conditions between Lhasa and Chengdu."

"Cathay cargo venture set to take off" from South China Morning Post

"An air-cargo venture expected to increase Cathay Pacific Airway's presence on the mainland could take off as early as next month, chairman Christopher Pratt said yesterday."


"The airline said the joint venture would help it gain cargo traffic in the Yangtze River Delta, where cargo throughput has grown neck and neck with that in the pearl River Delta.

Kelvin Lau Wai-kin, transport analyst of Daiwa Capital Market, said the deal may be more beneficial to Air China than Cathay.

"Obviously Cathay's major cargo business would still come from Hong Kong. It does not rely solely on the venture for its mainland cargo business as it has its own freighter routes there," Lau said. "Air China, on the other hand, could learn a lot from Cathay about the management and operation of the trade as few existing mainland airlines can handle the competition from experienced market players like UPS." "

"KLM increses services from Bristol Airport" from Flight Hotel Reservations

"When seats are suspect, airlines are left in limbo" from International Herald Tribune

"Scandal at Japanese firm could disrupt industry well into the next decade"

"CATHAY TO FLY DIRECT TO CHICAGO" from International Herald Tribune

"Cathay Pacific will begin daily nonstop flights between Hong Kong and Chicago on Sept.1, 2011, the Hong Kong airline said in a statement on Monday. The carrier will also add a third nonstop flight John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to Hong Kong in May."

"HK plans flight into international market by seat of its pants" from South China Morning Post

"The humble aircraft seat may be Hong Kong's ticket to enter the fiercely competitive international aviation industry."