Indonesia's anti-graft commission has named a former top executive of Garuda as a suspect in a case involving bribes for the purchase of Rolls Royce aircraft engines. A deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Laode Syarif, said Thursday that the bribery occurred between 2005 and 2014, the period when Emirsyah Satar was Garuda's president-director. Satar is alleged to have received bribes totalling US$3.45m for procurement of Rolls-Royce engines for some 50 Airbus planes owned by Garuda. Syarif said Satar received the bribes via another suspect who has a Singapore-based company with businesses in Indonesia but who was not identified. Syarif said the bribes in the Indonesian case included goods worth about $2m discovered by the commission in Jakarta and Singapore. <br/>
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Korean Air has used electric stun guns on 5 passengers during flights. Korean Air is believed to be the only major carrier to routinely have the weapons on board. The airline is ramping up training for staff using the guns after criticism for the way it handled a recent in-flight disturbance. In that incident, US singer Richard Marx was among passengers who helped restrain an unruly passenger. Afterwards, both Marx and his wife used social media to claim that the crew was "ill-trained". The carrier said it first introduced electric stun guns in 2002. It now carries at least 1 set of weapons on every plane, with 2 sets on its A380 jumbo jets. A Korean Air spokesman said that of the 5 incidents, 3 involved the gun being fired. Korean Air confirmed all took place while the aircraft were airborne. <br/>
Aeromexico will launch Mexico City-Seoul service starting May 27. The service will be operated 4X-weekly with a Boeing 787-8. From Mexico City, the aircraft will make a stop in Monterrey, Mexico, before continuing on to Seoul. The flights from Seoul to Mexico City will be nonstop. Seoul will be Aeromexico’s third Asian destination; the airline currently serves Shanghai and Tokyo. Aeromexico’s 787-8s are configured to carry 243 passengers, including 32 in business class. Aeromexico noted that Mexico is South Korea’s top trading partner in Latin America while South Korea is Mexico’s sixth-largest trading partner overall. “Aerial connectivity has a positive impact on tourism flows and is a fundamental axis to maintaining our competitive position in the world,” Mexican tourism minister Enrique de la Madrid Cordero said. <br/>