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Gategroup’s IPO setback casts shadow on HNA
Apr 6, 2018 (WiC 403)

A year after the carrier Swissair filed for bankruptcy in 2001 it sold its profitable inflight catering business Gategroup and ground-handler Swissport as part of the liquidation. The airline probably didn’t expect both these assets would end ...

Airbus names a former Party official to head its China unit
Feb 9, 2018 (WiC 397)

China is home to plenty of maverick manufacturers, including WiC’s favourite robotmaker Wu Yulu (see WiC59). Wu’s backyard efforts are hard to beat but earlier this year there was news of another incredibly ambitious amateur – a farmer from ...

Founder of VistaJet discusses China’s private jet market
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

Alibaba’s online shopping platform Taobao was offering some unexpected items for sale last month – three Boeing 747s, seized by a court in Shenzhen when a cargo airline went bust. After failing to dispose of the aircraft privately, the ...

Hong Kong’s flagship airline wrestles with new challenge from China
Aug 25, 2017 (WiC 377)

Longtime Cathay Pacific frequent flyers fondly remember the days when Chateau Lynch-Bages flowed freely at the front end of the plane. These days in business class the choice of reds does not feature the famed Pauillac wine but it does include a ...

Chinese drone firms eye the potential for passenger travel
Aug 25, 2017 (WiC 377)

“Mark my word: a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.” So said Henry Ford in 1940. Since then, the idea of a flying car has featured heavily in science fiction. Yet as many tech journals are ...

Media celebration as China’s locally-made jet finally takes to the skies
May 12, 2017 (WiC 365)

In discussing their aviation industry the Chinese sometimes talk in terms of ‘800 million shirts’. Puzzled? Well, as Beijing News points out, the calculation is that this many garments have to be exported to pay for each Airbus A380 purchased ...

Pressure increases for more of China’s drone fans to fly them safely
Feb 24, 2017 (WiC 355)

Since the start of 2016 there have been at least eight major drone accidents – one saw an unmanned aerial vehicle crash into a Munich autobahn, another collided with a Boeing 747 in Mozambique. China has had a few accidents too compelling ...

China Eastern seeks investment firm status
Dec 9, 2016 (WiC 349)

Warren Buffett made a surprise swoop in November, buying stakes in four airlines in the US with a $1.3 billion investment. Famous for disdaining the sector as a “death trap”, the billionaire seems to have changed his mind, basing his bet on ...

China Eastern embarrassed by slew of incidents
Dec 9, 2016 (WiC 349)

Our previous story reports how bosses at China Eastern are planning to diversify their businesses. But most of the news about the airline last week had more of an operational focus after three consecutive incidents at the end of ...

New stealth fighter makes appearance at Zhuhai show
Nov 11, 2016 (WiC 345)

Blink and you missed it. That was the story from the Zhuhai air show on November 1, when China’s first stealth fighter – the Chengdu J-20 – made its public debut. Of course, the whole idea is that the J-20 doesn’t appear at all, with ...

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