technologies that will bring greater operational efficiencies and cost savings to their business,” said Gardiner Porter, managing director for Jeppesen’s Asia-Pacific region. He said Jeppesen, which recently expanded in Singapore, plans to continue growing its regional presence by focusing on software development, crew management systems and customer support. The Boeing Flight Services Singapore campus supports training on Next-Generation 737s, 777s and 787 Dreamliner training suites. As Boeing’s largest training campus outside the U.S., it fills a critical need for pilots and technicians in the region. Boeing also has field service technical support teams in seven of the region’s countries. On the defense side, Singapore flies the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the AH-64D Apache Longbow and F-15SG multi-role fighters and the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system. Indonesia also has eight Apaches on order, and its government took delivery in 2014 of the country’s first-ever presidential plane, a 32 | BOEING FRONTIERS Boeing Business Jet 2, or BBJ 2. In Malaysia, Boeing is upgrading avionics and weapons systems on the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Hornets, and Insitu’s ScanEagle is used to support Malaysian military forces. Malaysia also has a long-running campaign to replace its jet fighters. For Boeing’s commercial airplane business, Southeast Asia is host to many notable customers, from Philippine Airlines, Asia’s first and longestrunning airline, to Singapore Airlines to Vietnam Airlines to Garuda Indonesia to Malaysia Airlines Berhad to Thai Airways International. And the region’s commercial aviation growth has continued, led in recent years by newer low-cost carriers, Keskar said. Those include Scoot, Singapore Airlines’ low-cost, long-haul subsidiary, which is an all-787 airline, and Thailand’s Nok Air, which flies a dozen leased Next-Generation 737s and has ordered eight more, as well as seven 737 MAX 8s. Indonesia’s low-cost Lion Air, that nation’s largest domestic airline, placed one of the largest commercial airplane orders in Boeing history in
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