Vietnam-Airlines Image courtesy of Vietnam Air Ticket Vietnam Airlines is reportedly looking to expand its operations in Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Atlantic, increasing its fleet expansion plans by an extra 64 aircraft. A proposal sent to the Ministry of Transportation outlined that the additional aircraft would more than double the airline’s fleet over the [...]

Kenya Airways plans to launch its first services to North America, South America and Australia by 2017, making it one of the few carriers to serve every inhabited continent. While these three continents will give Africa’s currently fifth-largest airline by seats a global presence, its future is pegged on Asia, with the carrier over the [...]

Hanoi  , April 13 (VNA) – Vietnam Airlines has asked for 64 more aircraft than it originally requested in its development plan last year, more than doubling its fleet over the next eight years.      The airline cited enhanced expansion plans in Asia, Europe, the Pacific and  Atlantic , an airline source has said.      Under the [...]

A GRANDMOTHER will dodge landmines, battle heat exhaustion and push herself to her physical limit when she cycles 250 miles through south-east Asia for charity. Gillian Haimes’ journey will begin in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, travel through the Mekong Valley and end at the Angor Wat temple in Cambodia. [...]

HANOI, Viet Nam News/Asia News Network–The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is planning to make its initial public offering (IPO) by the end next year, under a restructuring plan submitted to the Ministry of Transport earlier this week. Under the plan for partial equalization, about 70 to 80 percent of shares in the airline would [...]

Destination Marketing: Positioning of Ho Chi Minh City as a MICE Destination.By Dietmar Kielnhofer Ph.DThursday, 5th April 2012 The following document outlines in broad terms a tourism policy to complement Ho Chi Min City’s existing tourism strategy; additionally, to engender a dynamic, sustainable brand associated with vibrancy, cultural diversity, colonial history and excellent public service [...]

At least this time Qantas’s Alan Joyce appears to have a cogent strategy. His plan for a modest push into greater China with Jetstar represents a logical step for Qantas’s budget offshoot Jetstar to operate in conjunction with its established Jetstar Asia in Singapore, Jetstar Pacific in Vietnam and the soon to be launched Jetstar [...]

Greyhounds racing via Shutterstock We often boast about how superior and intelligent we are in the animal kingdom, assigning ourselves god-player domain status over all things living. So, we destroy, abuse and torture nature and all other life-forms. Intelligent? ‘Man’s best friend’ has suffered at our hands for centuries, being domesticated forcibly, broken from the [...]

Leave a Comment BANGKOK, 30 March 2012: Registration for buyers, sellers as well as hosted media for the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2013 is available on line until 30 June. Vientiane, Laos will host the week-long event, 17 to 24 January, 2013. The event should attract over 1,000 travel related executives and government officials. Lao PDR [...]

LOS ANGELES, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/557836/quotes/nls/aig AIG +0.10% , announced today it has completed an agreement to expand its partnership with Grupo Aeromexico (mexico:AEROMEX.MX) [...]