Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.
Prior joining AWN, Chuanren was a regular serviceman in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Air Defense and Operations Command. He now serves the RSAF Air Force Information Center as a reservist. He holds a Bachelor of Mass Communications as well as a Diploma in Mechatronics (Aerospace).
An aggressive cost cutting exercise could not help Thai Airways avert a chain of unforeseen disruptions as the flag carrier’s net loss for 2019 widened to THB12 billion ($380 million) from THB11.6 billion in 2018.
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways will be launching flights to Munich from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi starting July 2020, as it begins to study more long-haul operations ahead of its planned flights to the U.S.
