Weakness in the airline sector may present Singapore’s Tiger Airways with a chance to buy another airline, says CEO Tony Davis. It is also talking to Airbus about getting earlier delivery of its Airbus A320s, which has become a possibility with the failure of other airlines. The ambitious budget carrier says that under current plans it will have 72 A320s in service by 2016, up from 12 now.

China is now banning lighters and matches from domestic flights in an effort to step up aviation security. Liquids were banned last month after media reported an attempt to start a gasoline fire on an aircraft.

The Qantas group is likely to extend its Jetstar budget airline business with further franchisees following the incorporation of a Vietnamese airline as the second Southeast Asian user of the Australian no-frills brand. As four Asia-Pacific aviation groups maneuver for the region’s potentially vast budget airline market, setting up foreign affiliates like players placing pieces on a checkerboard, the Australian airline has become the first to move in heavily populated Vietnam, a country that seems ripe for low-cost aviation.