Los Angeles, Singapore Airlines has released the operating results for May 2012, marking a wide passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger kilometres) recorded a year-on-year improvement of 7.1%, which outpaced the growth in capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) of 3.9%. As a result, passenger load factor (PLF) improved 2.2 percentage points to 75.8%.   Read More

kulula, South Africa’s low-cost airline, has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Sabre, including selling the airline’s ancillary products and services in the Sabre global distribution system (GDS). The airlines’ fare and schedule information will be available to Sabre travel agents worldwide with seat availability. Read More

Beijing, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that South African Airways will host the 69th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit (WATS). The event will draw the top leadership of the air transport industry to Cape Town’s International Convention Centre from 2-4 June 2013. Read More

British Airways (BA) has renewed its contract with Vistair to provide and manage electronic flight operations manuals for its entire fleet. BA has also extended the agreement to provide manuals for the forthcoming Airbus A380, the Boeing “Dreamliner” 787, and for cabin crews and ground operations. Read More

Beijing, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Wang Changshun, the Chairman of Air China, has been elected President of the Association’s 68th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit, which opened today in Beijing, China. Read More