Starting with just one plane in 2003, Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air has become the country’s third-largest airline group, aided by its strategy of acquiring old planes at cheap prices and serving routes neglected by competitors. The mid-market airline, which has few international flights,
Brexit: Simon Coveney says EU’s demands ‘not unreasonable’ With the Brexit trade talks on the brink of collapse, the European Commission today published a series of unilateral contingency measures to maintain air and road transport links between the UK and EU in
Riyadh gives approval night before low-cost Israir due to fly its first planned route to the UAE, using Saudi airspace. Saudi Arabia agreed to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials
This month the China-based South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), claimed the US had flown at least 60 missions to spy on China in September alone. In August the organisation said the US had doubled such surveillance flights over the
US officials sent “high-level” requests in July and August to Indonesia’s defence and foreign ministers. However, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo refuted the help. The request comes as tensions between US and China mount over their influence in Southeastern Asian territories. Indonesia has a