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Super Seat Premium Reborn as ANA 'Premium Class'

ANA revealed the latest version of its extremely popular Super Seat Premium. Known simply as Premium Class, it will be ANA's leading product in its home market of Japan.

Dragonair To Join Oneworld On November 1

Dragonair - regularly named in customer surveys as the best airline serving China - will join oneworld®  on 1 November 2007, the leading quality global airline alliance announced today.

OnAir Selected by Kingfisher And Shenzhen Airlines

OnAir announced today, at the Aircraft Interiors Expo Asia, that it has been selected by Kingfisher Airlines to offer its passengers a full range of passenger communication services.

SQ Puts A PC On Every Seat

Singapore Airlines Ltd. is adding bigger screens, more in-flight movies and a PC in every seat on its newest planes.

A380 Handover In Singapore Scheduled For October 15

In line with the announced plan of delivering the first A380 to Singapore Airlines in October 2007, Airbus today confirms that the formal hand-over will take place on Monday 15th of that month.

Jet Airways Plans Global Footprint to Shanghai, Johannesburg and Chicago

With the beginning of a long-haul foray, a hugely delighted Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal hopes to catapult his airline to the global big league. On the eve of the launch flight to Newark last week, Mr Goyal outlined plans for a new Jet Airways with a global format. His plans include Shanghai, Johannesburg and Chicago in the next year.

JAL To Raise Delhi Frequencies To Daily

Japan Airlines is to increase frequencies between its Tokyo Narita hub and Delhi from the current four flights a week to daily from 28 October.

Virgin Blue Purchases A$61m National Headquarters in Brisbane

Low Cost airline Virgin Blue has purchased a Brisbane site for its new $61m national headquarters, reports news.com.au/Adelaidenow.

Indian Aviation Faces Huge Shortage of Pilots and Staff

With a recent study pointing out that the global airline industry will need 25,000 planes by 2025, in addition to the 17,000 planes that will already be in service, a shortage of pilots along with other key crew and support staff is a major worry for the Indian aviation industry which is now exploring newer ways to beat the crisis looming large ahead.

ANA To Introduce First Bidet In The Air

All Nippon Airways is the first airline to install bidet-toilets as standard in the 787 Dreamliners it starts flying as of next year. ANA's aim is to attract more of its fastidious home country passengers, where the "washlet" is commonplace.