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News on the Aviation Industry in China

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Project runways

Will Shenzhen airport’s expansion contest or complement Hong Kong’s?
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

China’s first time fliers are back in the news this year after at least five more cases in which superstitious passengers have thrown coins at their aircraft for good luck. In the latest instance a woman hurled nine coins into the engines ahead ...

Playing the slots

HNA’s sale of its budget airline consolidates Cathay’s position in Hong Kong
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

There are some similarities between the airline operations of the HNA Group from Hainan and Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific. Both are perched on the edges of China’s vast aviation market. And although they both sit outside the tent of the ...

How China’s aviation regulator made it a bad week for Boeing and the FAA
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

In 1980 the veteran Boeing engineer EE Bauer arrived in Beijing to open the US firm’s first representative office in China. According to James Fallows’ book China Airborne, the new arrival soon discovered that “every safeguard that made for ...

To solve its liquidity woes HNA is selling assets
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

“It only takes 10 seconds to crush a man’s ambition” is one of the most famous quotes from House of Cards, the US television drama that counts China’s former anti-graft tsar Wang Qishan as a fan. It is also an apt line to ...

Take the long view

How myopia is a problem for China’s airforce
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

China first stealth fighter jet, the J-20, went into combat service in February of this year. A second radar-evading fighter, the J-31 is currently in the manufacturing stage. The aim is to close the gap on the American airforce. The J-20 is ...

Eyes in the sky

Consumers showing more interest in data privacy
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

In March this year Baidu’s founder Robin Li claimed that the Chinese are not “overly concerned about data security”. He went on to say that Chinese are ready to trade their privacy for “convenience, safety or efficiency”. Much that ...

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 ...

It’s better to share

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 ...

Turbulent times

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 ...

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