Boeing has announced plans to invest $7.5 million to formally establish a joint research centre with Tsinghua University of China to develop aircraft cabin environments, advanced materials, computer s...
Xigaze Peace Airport, located in Xigaze Prefecture, 48 km from Xigaze City will officially open next month. The airport, which is 3,782 meters above sea level, is the fifth civil airport in Tibet. Th...
Haze in Singapore that reached unhealthy levels yesterday was no problem for Changi Airport, says the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). Thanks to its Instrument Landing System (ILS) aircr...
Indian civil aviation minister Praful Patel has hinted that he will move onto another ministry during an upcoming cabinet reshuffle. He said: "I have attended the Air Traffic Controllers' Day function...
MAJ Aviation has broken ground at Seletar Aerospace Park, home of its new general aviation hangar and ancillary facility. The S$8 million 6,000 square metre facility will be completed by September 20...
Garuda Indonesia IPO, previously scheduled for December 2010, is on track for launch in early February 2011. The airline is forecasting a net profit of 3.7 trillion rupiah in 2014, up from 669 billion...
Shares soared in China Southern Airlines after its nine-month profit rose more than 15-fold. The airline expects to report the profit increase after passenger numbers rose 22% in the same period. It a...
Gaming giant Genting Singapore is set to enter the airlinge industry. The firm bought Genting Singapore Aviation (GSA) last month with the principle aim of owning and operating gambling. Further detai...
Some 21 passengers were injured when a Vietnam Airlines flight from Hanoi to Paris hit severe turbulence. "The flight hit turbulence around two-and-a-half hours after take-off. There were light injuri...
Despite expectations, Japan Airlines (JAL) is reluctant to change its business model to launch a low cost carrier. JAL chairman Kazuo Inamori said the airline should focus on high-quality service inst...
The Indian government has relaxed rules on using mobile telephone on board aircraft. Previously using a phone on an aircraft after it lands and clears the active runway was banned, now the Directorate...
North Korea has reopened the inter-Korean aviation hotline it had closed on May 26. "The North last Saturday told us through the Kaesong Industrial Complex that it will reconnect the inter-Korean civi...
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