Transport infrastructure and facilities

Airports and air travel

Japan's smaller airports welcome Southeast Asia

More airlines in Southeast Asia are flying to Japan’s regional cities as a growing number of travelers visit the country. And seeing inbound tourism as the key to boosting regional economies, central and local governments in Japan are more than happy to promote the country’s ...

Kentaro Iwamoto and Jun Suzuk

Airfare surge seen for Thailand in 2018

Thailand is expected to see one of the steepest increases in airfares globally next year, a global travel management firm said this week.Keep reading ...

ACV pours $263m into expanding major airports

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) plans to undertake projects on upgrading infrastructure of major airports with total investment capital of more than VNĐ6 trillion (US$263.38 million).Keep reading ...

VNA signs agreement on cyber security

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines signed an agreement with the Ministry of Public Security’s Department of Cyber Security, marking their co-operation on ensuring security and safety of information system on Tuesday.Keep reading ...

Vietnam’s goal of being producers for Boeing, Airbus dashed

Both Airbus and Boeing have chosen China to build airplane assembling factories. French Airbus has kicked off construction of a helicopter assembling factory in the eastern port city of Qingdao, Shandong Province which is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. The factory will ...

GE signs $5.58bn in power, aviation deals in Vietnam

General Electric Co said on May 31 it had signed deals in Vietnam worth about $5.58 billion for power generation, aircraft engines and services, its largest single combined sale with the country in GE’s history. The agreements came as Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was on a ...

Thailand to take on Singapore with $5.7 billion airport overhaul

Thailand is seeking to take on Singapore’s dominance in aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul with a $5.7 billion upgrade of a Vietnam War-era airport. Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Sikorsky Aircraft is the latest company to study a possible increase in MRO spend in Thailand in the wake ...

Japan Airlines to add flights to Australia, Hawaii

 Japan Airlines will launch additional flights serving Australia and Hawaii as early as September, revamping its international routes for the first time since undergoing bankruptcy reorganization in 2010. In addition to an existing route between Narita Airport and Sydney and code-share flights, Japan’s flag carrier ...

Connectivity key to ASEAN growth

Southeast Asian business and political leaders meeting in Phnom Penh on May 11 said multilateral connectivity, both physical and digital, was needed to ensure that ASEAN’s development and growth was not restricted by national borders. Delegates attending the second day of the World Economic Forum on ...

Good infrastructure vital for ASEAN

The availability of good infrastructure at the national level of ASEAN countries is a prerequisite if they are to benefit from regional economic integration, delegates told a panel at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN on May 11. “Better physical infrastructure development in the country ...

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