Russia's Technodinamika holding company, involved in the manufacture of aviation units and power supply systems, is ready to join a Russian-Chinese heavy helicopter project, the company's head Maxim Kuzyuk said. Earlier on Wednesday, Russia's Rostec deputy CEO Dmitry Shugaev said the company expected to sign a contract and an intergovernmental agreement on the heavy h...
Embraer has delivered the first Phenom 100 to China, following the handover of an entry-level jet on 14 December, to Wanfeng Aviation. The six-seat Phenom 100E – the latest iteration of the ten-year-old twinjet – will be used by the Zhejiang-based company as corporate transport for its parent Wanfeng Auto Holding and for charter services in the country. “It’s a great...
Fuzhou Airlines confirmed on Saturday that foam mistakenly sprayed on one of its Boeing 737-800 passenger liners on Thursday damaged both its engines and would cost about 120 million yuan (HK$144 million) to replace them, The Paper.cn, a news portal based in Shanghai, reported. The airlines said on Saturday on its Weibo account that the fire-retardant foam had entered crucial parts of the...
Honeywell Aerospace leadership and other representatives attended the certification ceremony for the Y-12F turboprop utility aircraft, developed by AVIC Harbin Aircraft Industry (Group) Co. Ltd. (HAIG). Honeywell provides the complete integrated avionics system for the 19-seat Y-12F aircraft. The ceremony marked the milestone of the Y-12F receiving Type Certificate from the Civil Aviation Adm...
Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport (TNA) reported to have handled 9,004,800 passengers from January to Dec. 10 this year, up 9 percent from the same period of 2014. From the start of the new winter/spring flight season, Jinan airport has launched twelve new services including Fuzhou-Jinan-Dalian, Harbin-Jinan-Hong Kong, Jinan-Changsha-Phuket, further meeting passengers' travel demand...
Speaking at the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Global Media Day on Thursday, IATA head Tony Tylor lauded the performance of Chinese airlines in recent years amid positive long-term prospects for the global airline industry. "Now the safety record (in China) is as good as anywhere else in the world. The reason that they've achieved it is that they've follo...
Shandong Aielines (SC) has expanded its fleet to 90 aircraft, with a new Boeing 737-800 (Registration B-7087) landing at Jinan Yaoqiao International Airport (TNA) on Dec. 11. With the arrival of B-7087 aircraft, Shandong Airlines has completed its fleet introduction plan for 12th Five Year. According to statistics, the Jinan-based carrier has taken delivery of 57 aircraft in 2010-2015,...
China's Jiangsu Baoli has ordered four Ka-32A11BC fire-fighting helicopters from Russian Helicopter, a subsidiary of the Russian state technology company Rostec. The helicopters will be delivered between 2016 and 2017, the Russian manufacturer said in a statement in late November. The Ka-32A11BC helicopter is designed for search and rescue operations, firefighting missions and providing...
Passengers were forced to deplane from an Air China (CA) aircraft that was preparing to fly from Fuzhou to Beijing after smoke was detected in the aircraft engine on Thursday morning. The Beijing-bound flight CA1822 was performed by a Boeing 738 aircraft, Registration B-5507. The flight was scheduled to take off from Fuzhou at 7:45 a.m. and land in Beijing at 10:35 a.m. Six firetrucks a...
Air China (CA) Thursday launched a nonstop flight between Beijing and Auckland, New Zealand, the first direct flight from the Chinese capital to New Zealand, the airline announced Wednesday at a press conference held at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). The inaugural flight CA783, performed by Airbus A330-200 aircraft (Registration B-5932) departed from Beijing airport...
Some 300 China Airlines passengers were left stranded at Changi Airport on Monday into Tuesday (Dec. 8) after a mechanical glitch grounded their plane for more than 18 hours. Flight CI754, bound for Taipei was scheduled for which was scheduled to depart at 2:05 p.m. on Monday but left Singapore only at 10:53 a.m. on Tuesday. This had a knock-on effect on other China Airlines flights to...
A professor at Pennsylvania State University was detained after the police escorted him off an international flight when he tried to sneak into a better class of seat, state media has reported. Lu Yong was aboard United Airlines Flight 87 waiting to depart to New York on Sunday afternoon when he tried to "self-upgrade", according to CCTV. When flight attendants discovered he was in...
