Asia’s airlines blame supply chain woes for disrupted operations

Asia-Pacific travel demand has recovered from the pandemic, but earnings at the region’s airlines are under pressure from supply chain problems disrupting operations and exposing them to strengthening consumer protection rules, industry executives say. “The supply chain issue is the biggest challenge the industry is facing,” Subhas Menon, the director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said at the trade body’s annual meeting in Brunei this week. Thai Airways CEO Chai Eamsiri said servicing the Rolls-Royce engines on its Boeing 787 jets used to take around three months, but that has blown out to about six.Read More