Flight Friday: Turkish Operators Outpace Eastern Europe Despite Smaller Fleet | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Daniel Williams June 12, 2026 Credit: Joe Pries Ahead of Aviation Week’s MRO BEER event in Istanbul, Flight Friday examines how Eastern European (excluding Russia) operators’ narrowbody and widebody monthly flight cycles compare to Turkish operators.Eastern European operators operate over 800 narrowbody aircraft and a little under 150 widebody aircraft. Utilization is up for both aircraft classes by over 16% when compared to May 2024, as we move further away from the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war.This is healthy growth. As for…
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China’s criticism of Japan is intensifying rapidly. Within the context of China-Japan relations, the current campaign is unprecedented by any historical measure. It has three distinct characteristics. First, following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about Taiwan on November 7, 2025, critics in China doubled down on existing issues, including the problem of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the theory of the San Francisco Peace Treaty’s invalidity, expanding them into a narrative of “new militarism.” More recently, the scope of the rhetoric has widened further, to include the 80th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal…
Personalisation has been a stated priority for media, entertainment, sports, and gaming brands for the best part of a decade. Yet the gap between intent and execution remains wide. Most brands collect plenty of engagement signals. Fewer can identify which signals matter. Fewer still can act on them in a coordinated way across channels, screens, and lifecycle stages. That gap is one of the central themes of a new report from Braze, the Media & Entertainment Personalisation Report. Drawing on direct practitioner experience from streaming, sports, gaming, and music brands across Asia, ANZ, and the GCC, the report examines the…
There’s specific kind of warmth found in Malaysian hospitality, and now, it has a modern home on board the Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330neo. And beyond the cabin, the MHcorporate program extends that same care to your business travel – rewarding every flight with Enrich Points that turn your company’s travel spend into future opportunities. The Malaysia Airlines A330neo experience Malaysia Airlines now flies its Airbus A330neo jets three times a day from Sydney and Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur, so you can choose the timings that suit your schedule The A330neo is also daily from Adelaide, with Brisbane to follow later…
India’s new ambassador to China has paid his first visit to Tibet in the latest sign of thawing relations between the two Asian neighbours.Vikram Doraiswami – who speaks Chinese and took up the post in Beijing last month – arrived in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, on Thursday, according to a statement posted on social media by the Indian embassy.The visit was to “review arrangements made by the local government for Indian pilgrims proceeding to Mount Gang Renpoche and Lake Mapam Yun Tso”, the statement said.It said the pilgrims – destined for the sacred mountain and lake in…
In an era of shifting geopolitical alliances and growing demand for space-based security capabilities, a Spanish aerospace company is quietly building what it calls the future of sovereign satellite technology—and it has set its sights on Japan. FOSSA Systems, founded in Madrid in 2020, has launched more satellites into orbit than any other Spanish company in history and was recently selected for NATO’s DIANA defense innovation program. The company has also just opened its first office outside Europe in Shinagawa, Tokyo, and signed a strategic partnership with Japanese conglomerate Kanematsu Corporation, marking its entry into the Asia-Pacific market. At South…
Hong Kong police have arrested 16 people for allegedly using bogus medical certificates to fraudulently withdraw over HK$4.3 million from their retirement savings funds. The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority. Photo: Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, via Facebook. Police said on Thursday that a syndicate had forged medical certificates to allow claimants to falsely claim they were totally incapacitated or suffered from a terminal illness to withdraw their Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) contributions early. Police Superintendent Allan Chu of the Commercial Crime Bureau said at a press conference that nine men and seven women, aged between 29 and 63, were…
Friday 12 June 2026 5:24 am | Updated: Wednesday 10 June 2026 5:11 pm The Gulf Cooperation Council is a model of post-Brexit success success, says James PriceIn 211BC, when Hannibal was camped outside the walls of Rome, Livy tells us that the ground his army occupied came up for auction in the city. Such was Rome’s confidence in its own future that it sold for full price.I thought of this a few weeks ago when Britain signed a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (the first the GCC has ever concluded with a G7 nation) while Iranian missiles…
Home » Latest Travel News of Middle East » UAE Joins Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Israel, India, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Others as U.S.-Iran Diplomacy Replaces Planned Strikes and Puts Gulf Travel in Focus: Could a Historic Settlement Transform Tourism Across the Middle East? Published on June 12, 2026 Image generated with AiUAE Joins Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Israel, India, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Others as U.S.-Iran Diplomacy Replaces Planned…
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