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...Gidon Novick, the founder of domestic airline Lift, said the country’s aviation market had “changed dramatically” in the past few years....
...Nigeria’s infrastructure has suffered from decades of under-investment and its aviation sector is a hotchpotch of small domestic operators and big international carriers....
...disruption accounted for a small part of sprawling festive flight schedules as more than 1,900 flights were cancelled by airlines globally on Friday, mostly due to non-pandemic related issues, according to aviation...
...Global Aviation recently launched Lift, a budget domestic carrier in South Africa, of which Novick is a co-founder....
...He has embraced the idea of forging a new state airline from the ashes of SAA, despite the turmoil that Covid-19 is causing in the international aviation industry....
...Thabang Motsohi, a consultant with decades of African aviation experience, said “SAA can be salvaged,” but only if politicians were willing to give its management the space they needed to focus on what worked...
...“With this technology behind them, Qantas can become a disrupter in global aviation,” Anthony Moulder, analyst at broker CLSA, said....
...Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage....
...“I think we will look back at 2015 as the peak of the cycle,” said Chris Tarry, an aviation analyst....
...Last month administrators were appointed to Palmer Aviation, the company that owns Mr Palmer’s US$40m private jet bearing the logo of his political party spray-painted on the fuselage....
...He added that “at a time when aviation markets across Asia are opening up, Hong Kong is going in the opposite direction”....
...The emergence of budget carriers should further increase demand for planes in the world’s fastest growing aviation market....
...They have got a sense for what kind of partner works and those that don’t,” said Brendan Sobie, analyst at the Centre Aviation in Singapore....
...flying is not in Europe or the US, but in Asia-Pacific, where, at the beginning of the year, there were 47 low-cost airlines flying 1,000 aircraft, with another 1,500 on order, according to the Centre for Aviation...
...The region’s low-cost fleet is now 1,000 planes strong, with a further 1,500 aircraft on order, according to the Centre for Aviation....
...The battle over Jetstar Hong Kong comes as many traditional full-service carriers try to grab a share of the growing low-cost aviation market in Asia....
...Budget airlines offer more than a quarter of the seats available out of Singapore, but only 5 per cent out of Hong Kong, according to the Centre for Aviation....
...South Africa’s domestic air travel should be one of Africa’s most lucrative aviation patches....
...Stansted had been expected to sell for a discount to the £1.3bn that aviation regulators estimate its assets are worth....
...Stansted is expected to sell for a discount to the £1.3bn the UK’s aviation regulator estimates its assets are worth....
...Qantas of Australia and China Eastern Airlines are to launch Hong Kong’s first budget airline in a landmark deal for foreign participation in the Chinese aviation industry....
...The Chinese aviation market is now a story of rapid growth, having recovered from air safety fears in the 1990s....
...The Centre for Aviation, a market research firm, argued in a recent report that although Vietnam “is in position for massive low cost carrier growth in both the domestic and international markets” the market...
...The upshot, according to figures compiled by the Australia-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, is that SIA’s annual passenger numbers have fallen from 19.1m to 16.6m over the past three years....
...Yet for all the deal’s significance for Airbus, it also marks a big shift for the Japanese aviation industry....
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