About
I work in air planning at a Southeast Asian regional carrier. My day-to-day covers route development, schedule design, and the regulatory workflow that gets routes launched: bilateral air services agreements, traffic rights, and operating permits.
This blog is where I write about parts of the job that don’t fit into slide decks: practical scheduling frameworks, how regional ASEAN aviation regulation actually works, and the gap between “open skies” as a headline and the protocol-by-protocol reality on the ground.
What I write about
Network and schedule planning. Single-aircraft and small-fleet rotation design, day patterns, FDP discipline, block-time realism.
Traffic rights and ASA negotiation. Fifth and seventh freedom analysis, regulator coordination, bilateral negotiation timelines.
Regional aviation policy in Southeast Asia. MAAS, MAFLPAS, ASEAN-China and ASEAN-EU frameworks, and how these affect commercial decisions.
Operations from the planner’s seat. What slot coordination, permit applications, and OCC handovers actually look like when a route launches.
I work bilingually in Chinese and English. The underlying analysis behind these articles is often done in zh, but I write here in en.
Why this blog exists
Most public writing on Southeast Asian regional aviation falls into one of two camps. The first is consultancy white-paper level: high-altitude, low operational detail. The second is news aggregation: current but shallow. Practitioners (schedulers, traffic-rights officers, network planners) don’t have a good public-facing place to read about the day-to-day craft.
I write to fill that gap. Partly to think through problems clearly for myself. Partly because the next generation of aviation professionals in this region needs more practitioner-level material to learn from.
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Everything on this site uses public-domain regulatory sources, generic operational examples, and industry-standard terminology. Nothing reflects the position, planning, or commercial strategy of any specific employer, and no proprietary or confidential information is published or implied.