
Vietnam Airlines has picked the International Aero Engines consortium (IAE) as the supplier of V2500 engines with reduced carbon-dioxide emissions for 36 Airbus A321 aircraft ordered from European plane manufacturer Airbus.
Just before the end of Farnborough Air Show in England over the weekend, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce under IAE told the Daily about their [...]
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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The Southern Airports Corporation (SAC) and Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) on July 27 held a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City to seek international flights to three new airports in the southern regions.
Representatives from travel and tourism businesses as well as domestic and international airlines were introduced to incentive policies reserved for Phu [...]
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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It seems that big Vietnamese big stock millionaires now not only vying with each other in the amounts of shares they hold, but they also are rushing to purchase private aircrafts to serve their traveling demands.
The helicopter worth nearly $5 million owned by the big stock millionaire Tran Dinh Long has arrived in Vietnam three [...]
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Jetstar Pacific Airlines will bring an additional Airbus A320 into service by the end of October, raising the total number of planes in their fleet to seven in order to meet higher demand next year.
The airline plans to expand its team to 15 planes by 2014. In the first half of this year, Jetstar Pacific [...]
July 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a US$240 million share of an order from national carrier Vietnam Airlines to sell V2500 engines to power 36 Airbus A321 airplanes.
Deliveries of the aircraft, already on order, are scheduled to start in 2011. Vietnam Airlines currently has 22 IAE-powered aircrafts in service.
The V2500 is produced by [...]
July 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Trai Thien Air Cargo has been unable to take off this month as earlier planned because the country’s first licensed air freight carrier has yet to charter an aircraft.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) said this aviation regulator had warned Trai Thien Air Cargo of not leasing old freighter planes for its new service [...]

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on opening international flights to Cam Ranh airport was signed in the central coastal city of Nha Trang on July 24.
Signatories were representatives of the Khanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee, the Middle Airports Corporation (MAC), the Association for International Airlines operating in Vietnam and the Khanh Hoa Tourism Association.
Under the [...]
July 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region are enjoying a strong recovery from the economic downturn, with sharp gains in passenger numbers and freight traffic in June, an industry group said yesterday.
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said that regional airlines carried 15.1 million international passengers in June, a 25.2 percent increase compared with the same [...]
July 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Vietnam Airlines has signed a ten-year fleet management programme agreement with Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners covering the airline’s fleet of PW4090 engines. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company.
“We are pleased to select Pratt & Whitney for our fleet management needs for our PW40906 engines,” said Pham Ngoc Minh, [...]
July 21, 2010 | Posted in
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Vietjet Aviation Joint-Stock Co (Vietjet Air) and Mekong Aviation Joint-Stock Co (Mekong Air) are likely to commence their domestic services in the fourth quarter if these private airlines meet requirements, including the air operator certificate (AOC).
Vo Huy Cuong, director of Air Transport Department at the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), said Mekong Air had [...]
July 20, 2010 | Posted in
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