AirAsia victim wearing life jacket raises questions about final moments
A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia's search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after ...
Divers set to search for AirAsia wreckage; plane believed intact until sea impact; stall suspected
Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all important black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found several bodies and debris floating in shallow waters off the coast of Borneo. Aviation experts believe the fuselage may be ...
Java Sea said shallow in search area for missing AirAsia jetliner
The team searching for the AirAsia Bhd. plane that disappeared on a stormy flight to Singapore will benefit from the fact that the jet's last known location was over shallow and well-traveled waters among Indonesia's islands. The hunt for the Airbus Group NV A320 single-aisle ...
Aviation experts speculate AirAsia plane hit by bad weather but also note unusual factors
The disappearance of an AirAsia jetliner while flying over the Java Sea on Sunday is probably due to stormy weather, but there were also some unusual factors, aviation experts speculated Monday. Based on information known so far, the pilots of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which was ...
Indonesia seeks U.S. help to find missing plane: State Deptartment
Indonesia has asked the United States for help in locating the AirAsia jet that went missing on Sunday carrying 162 people, the U.S. State Department said Monday. "Today we received a request for assistance locating the airplane, and we are reviewing that request to find ...
AirAsia flight likely crashed in Java Sea: Indonesia search agency
A missing AirAsia plane carrying 162 people is presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official says on Monday, as countries in the region offered to help Jakarta in the search and recovery effort.
Airbus sends experts to help in probe over vanished AirAsia A320
Airbus NV has dispatched two experts to Jakarta to assist in the investigation of the missing A320 airliner operated by AirAsia Bhd., the budget carrier that rose from almost nothing in 2001 to become the plane maker's biggest customer. The single-aisle jet lost contact with ...
Malaysia low-cost carrier AirAsia to re-enter market via Rakuten tie-up
Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia Bhd said Tuesday it will establish a new company in Tokyo to re-enter the Japanese market from which it withdrew last year. Japan's biggest online retailer Rakuten Inc. is expected to invest in the new AirAsia unit and cooperate with it ...
Online retailer Rakuten Inc. is planning to enter the airline business in partnership with Malaysian discount carrier AirAsia, sources said Thursday. Rakuten is looking to invest in a low-cost carrier set up by AirAsia in Japan and to cooperate in establishing a seat-reservation system and ...
AirAsia looks to bring back budget flights to Japan in '15 via new tie-up
AirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's biggest budget carrier, is close to restarting plans for a Japanese unit after its partnership with ANA Holdings Inc. unraveled in June, Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes said. "Japan is a market we are very bullish on," Fernandes said in an ...
AirAsia inn woos foreigners to Naha
A budget hotel chain affiliated with Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia is seeking to draw Southeast Asian tourists to Japan after opening its first hotel in the country in August. The Tune Hotels chain opened the 140-room hotel in Okinawa after refurbishing an existing facility and ...
Malaysia's AirAsia confirmed Tuesday it is ending its low-cost airline joint venture with All Nippon Airways. AirAsia, Asia's largest budget airline company, said in a statement both had signed a termination agreement. "The joint venture, created two years ago under the name AirAsia Japan, faced many ...
