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China Southern airline to exit SkyTeam alliance

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 16 06:39 AM

PARIS - China Southern, Asia's biggest carrier, is to exit the SkyTeam airline alliance founded by Air France and Delta, both the company and the grouping announced on Thursday. Read more »

Australia-based review firm tags PAL as most improved airline

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 07:21 PM

Philippine Airlines was named as world's Most Improved Airline for 2018 by the Australia-based airline review firm AirlineRatings.Com. Read more »

Singapore Airlines finds premium economy a tougher sell on new US flights

Jamie Freed, Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 10:24 AM

Singapore Airlines last month resumed after 5 years the world's longest commercial flight, an almost 19-hour non-stop journey from Singapore to New York. Read more »

Some Cebu Pacific booking services unavailable Tues to Wed

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 12 08:30 PM

Cebu Pacific on Monday said some of its booking services will be unavailable from Nov. 13 to Nov. 14 due to system enhancements. Read more »

PAL Holdings net loss narrows as revenues rise

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 12 10:58 AM

PAL Holdings reported net loss attributable to shareholders of P2.52 billion in the third quarter, from P2.92 billion during the same period in 2017. Read more »

Indonesia stops search for victims of Lion Air crash

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 06:30 PM

Indonesian authorities said on Saturday they had stopped the search for victims of a plane crash that killed all 189 people on board, but would keep looking for the Lion Air flight's second black box, the cockpit voice recorder. Read more »

102,000 PH passports, credit cards affected in Cathay Pacific data breach: NPC

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 04:17 PM

MANILA - Data from some 102,000 Filipino passports and credit cards are among those affected in the massive data breach that hit Cathay Pacific earlier this year, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said in an order made public Saturday. Read more »

Flights sa NAIA ngayong Nobyembre, babawasan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 02:26 AM

Babawasan muna ang flights sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport ngayong buwan para bigyang daan ang paglilipat sa bagong air radar system. Read more »

Terminal fee refund ng mga OFW, puwede nang kunin sa MIAA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 03:47 AM

Puwede na kasing makuha ang refund ng binayaran niyo sa opisina ng MIAA. Read more »

Cebu Pacific expands maintenance deal with Air France-KLM

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 08 11:07 AM

Cebu Pacific said it expanded its support contract it Air France Industries KLM Engineering and Maintenance for its Airbus fleet. Read more »

Boeing issues advice over sensors after LionAir crash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 08 08:12 AM

Boeing said local aviation officials believed pilots might have been given wrong information by the plane's automated systems before the fatal crash. Read more »

Indonesia extends search for bodies from Lion Air crash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 07:50 PM

Indonesia will extend by three days its search for the bodies of passengers from the ill-fated Lion Air plane Read more »

Airlines cancel some November flights due to navigational system upgrade

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 07 05:50 PM

At least two local airlines announced Wednesday the cancellation of some of its flights this month to give way to the upgrade of the government's air navigational system. Read more »

Bacolod-Silay Airport runway set for temporary closure Friday

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 10:12 AM

SILAY CITY – The Bacolod-Silay Airport’s runway will be closed from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. to give way to an emergency exercise, the CAAP said in a notice to airmen. Read more »

Colors of Chinese fighter jets

China Daily via Reuters
Posted at Nov 06 09:06 PM

People watch J-10 fighter jets of Bayi aerobatic team of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force perform at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Zhuhai Airshow, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China on Tuesday.  Read more »

Trade war, spy claims cloud horizon for China airshow says Reuters source

Brenda Goh and Stella Qiu, Reuters
Posted at Nov 04 12:13 PM

Trade frictions with the United States and accusations of industrial espionage are set to cast a cloud over China's largest aerospace meeting this week, as suppliers consider what the country's slowing economy could mean for booming jet demand. Read more »

Football: Leicester City owner's funeral starts in Thailand with royal honor

Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Juarawee Kittisilpa, Reuters
Posted at Nov 04 12:56 AM

The funeral, closed to the public and media, was attended by Vichai's relatives, friends and senior Thai politicians and soccer officials. Read more »

Indonesia finds ‘minor’ faults in two other 737-MAX jets after crash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 03 03:32 AM

The transport ministry said it discovered that one plane had a problem linked to its cockpit display while another had a glitch in a jet stabilization system. Read more »

Indonesia hunts sea bed for crashed Lion Air jet's second black box

Cindy Silviana, Reuters
Posted at Nov 02 02:32 PM

Efforts are now focused on retrieving the second of the two black boxes Read more »

Pilot radioed alert on doomed Indonesian jet's previous flight

Gayatri Suroyo and Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Reuters
Posted at Nov 02 10:56 AM

The pilot of a Lion Air flight from Indonesia's Bali island on Sunday made a radio alert minutes after take-off due to technical problems, but they were overcome and he pushed on to Jakarta. Read more »