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News on the Aviation Industry in China

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The past week has produced bad news for Chinese flyers
Jul 19, 2013 (WiC 202)

One wonders if there weren’t a few public relations experts back in 2004 who cautioned Boeing against naming their new passenger jet the Dreamliner. If so, there was another “I told you so” moment last week, as another fire, this time on ...

Dreamliner makes debut flight in China
Jun 21, 2013 (WiC 198)

Dreams were dashed on June 6 for passengers hoping to be the first to fly on China Southern’s new Boeing 787. The Dreamliner’s maiden commercial flight from Guangzhou was cancelled due to poor visibility at its destination, Beijing. The ...

Come fly with me

Motorbike tycoon wants to become a higher-flier in plane industry
Apr 5, 2013 (WiC 187)

When Zuo Zongshen was profiled for a documentary by the New York Times about the development of modern China, the man behind the Zongshen Motorcycle Technology Corporation characterised his own life as a rags to riches story. “My family and I ...

Beijing’s second airport moves a step closer, at a cost of over $11 billion
Feb 1, 2013 (WiC 180)

It was a case of first the smog and then the snow for Beijing’s long-suffering air passengers last month, after hundreds 0f flights were either cancelled or delayed due to the wintry conditions. But at least it sounds like the chances of an ...

HNA Group buys into airline for access to French flight rights
Nov 30, 2012 (WiC 174)

20:20 vision, a minimum height of 6’2” and an ability to communicate in English is no longer enough. Pilot wannabes for China’s fourth largest carrier Hainan Airlines now have another major test to pass, after company officials were ...

US aviation firm pockets $50 million break fee
Nov 9, 2012 (WiC 171)

Only a couple of months ago, budding aviation entrepreneur Cheng Shenzong told 21CN Business Herald that he was sure that his plans to acquire troubled US aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft would go ahead (see WiC160). The newspaper even described ...

In for the long haul

Why China Southern’s losing money flying its new A380 jets
Oct 19, 2012 (WiC 168)

When Orville Wright first took to the air in 1903, his inaugural flight travelled a triumphant 120 feet. On that December morning, as the aviation industry was born, could the inventor have envisaged that one day an aircraft would be built with a ...

Time for plane speaking

It’s livid with the EU over carbon tax. So why is Beijing buying Airbus planes?
Sep 7, 2012 (WiC 163)

Remember Alec Baldwin being ‘deplaned’ last December, when he refused to switch off his iPad? The actor was escorted off the aircraft after a stormy altercation with a flight attendant from American Airlines. This week China had its own ...

Little-known Chinese firm swoops on US plane maker
Jul 27, 2012 (WiC 160)

In 2009, Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Shenzhong acquired Superior Air Parts, a small manufacturer of aviation components in Texas on the verge of bankruptcy. The $7 million deal was mostly financed by loan sharks, and more than half the money ...

Collision course

Why China and EU face airline showdown in April
Jun 22, 2012 (WiC 155)

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” wrote the poet WB Yeats. The Irishman never attended a eurozone summit, but he couldn’t have summed up proceedings better if he had. Yeats’ apocalyptic ...

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