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AirAsia has had $1 billion takeover offer for leasing unit: report



Asia's largest budget airline AirAsia Bhd (AIRA.KL) has received a $1 billion offer for its aircraft leasing unit, Bloomberg News quoted Chief Executive Tony Fernandes as saying.

AirAsia intends to divest the business, Asia Aviation Capital Ltd, at some point, Fernandes told Bloomberg on Monday but added that the offer needs to be discussed further with the board.

He was quoted as saying that the business was a "powerful cash generator".

Reuters reported in October that AirAsia has been in talks with lessors, including cash-rich Chinese companies, to sell a stake in its leasing subsidiary.

Chinese companies are seeking to grow aggressively in the leasing industry that provides about 40 percent of the planes used by airlines globally.

Following the Reuters report, AirAsia said late last year that it had received approaches from investors to co-invest in the leasing unit.

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So Air Asia can have US$1 billion cash!

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Not sure how much he pockets?

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Should be 100 million or more.

TS, thank you for thread.

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Nice uniform. Thank you TS.

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'Your flight has been delayed': Do Vietnamese airlines play fair with passengers?

HO CHI MINH CITY - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 16:42

Nguyen Xuan Duc booked a flight with Jetstar Pacific to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi one morning earlier this month.

He received a message from the carrier the night before notifying that the flight would be delayed until the afternoon.

Since he could not find any other options, he had to accept the delay, which meant canceling some of his business plans.

He received no compensation because, technically, he was informed by the airline.

Travelers in Vietnam have long come to terms with the fact that flight delays and cancellations can happen daily.

But with the problem showing no sign of getting better, many are now demanding that at least carriers compensate them fairly for all the expenses incurred and the opportunities missed. Some even hope that substantial compensations may eventually scare airlines into improving on-time performance.

Currently the numbers do not make any local carriers look good.
Statistics from the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam listed 639 delays and cancellations, or 13.4 percent of all flights, between April 11 and May 17.

Jetstar Pacific topped the list with 19 percent of flights delayed and 2 percent canceled, followed by Vietjet Air with a 17 percent delay rate. Flag carrier Vietnam Airlines delayed 275 or 11 percent of its flights.

The Civil Aviation Administration cited bad planning as a major cause.
Vietnam now requires airlines to pay up to VND400,000 (US$18) a passenger for delays of domestic flights and $150 for international flights.
Those figures are higher than the compensation rates before July last year.

But many passengers say that carriers should pay more.
Huong Tran, a Vietnam Airlines passenger affected by a three-day delay in January, said she and other passengers had to go through the check-in process three times, one each day, as the carrier was not even sure when it could give them another flight from Paris to Hanoi.

After the third time, Tran said, she had no energy left to drag her luggage back to the hotel again. “I just stayed at the airport and waited for 18 hours.”
The support she received through the whole ordeal with a loss of stress and frustration was six $17 meals and $223 in cash.

Such amount was little compared to European rules which require EU-based carriers to pay passengers up to 600 euros, or nearly $670, each for delays of more than three hours.

Nguyen Thien Tong, a respected aviation expert in Vietnam, said the
compensation rates for delays and cancellations are now too low.

“It’s not enough to cover the passengers’ cost for travel, accommodation and meals during the wait, as well as their missing opportunities.”

Tong said local carriers could totally set their schedule better to save customers from delays and cancellations.

He said the carriers now cram more flights into their daily schedule than they can actually operate, which means they have to cancel some flights in the last hours or minutes and combine flights with many empty seats, usually from three flights into two.

“The compensation needs to be high enough to force the carriers to stick to their schedule.”

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Good morning.

Thank you for support.

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Didn't know the situation so bad.

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Anyway thank you for commenting.

Please post all your airlines to share here.

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Vietnam Airlines flights delayed as passenger opens emergency door

HO CHI MINH CITY - Thursday, June 02, 2016 16:48

Three Vietnam Airlines flights from Ho Chi Minh City were delayed on Thursday after one passenger opened an emergency door on an aircraft that had just landed and released the evacuation slide.

A Vietnam Airlines representative said the Vietnamese passenger, 58, opened the door soon after the aircraft from Hanoi arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

The aircraft was scheduled to fly to Hong Kong next, but that flight had to be delayed, causing damage of nearly US$20,000, according to the representative.

As the Airbus aircraft had to be pulled out of flight schedule for technical check, two other Vietnam Airlines flights to Da Nang and Hanoi were also affected.

No penalty has been announced. But opening emergency doors is an act punishable by between VND10-20 million under Vietnam’s aviation rules

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OMG, Vietnam same as PRC now.

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Going to buy more players for QPR? :p

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Good morning.

Please post your favorite airlines here.

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Domestic airline have limited planes.

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Good morning bump.