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News on the Aviation Industry in China

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Reaching for the skies

A new book asks big questions about China’s aerospace ambitions
Jun 8, 2012 (WiC 153)

In 1916 a 35 year-old Yale alumnus named Bill Boeing decided to quit the timber industry and start building aircraft. Rather than picking an American or European as his chief engineer, Boeing opted for a man named Wong Tsu, who had recently ...

Facing turbulence?

Qantas to launch budget Chinese airline
Mar 30, 2012 (WiC 144)

This month saw the launch of a new all-business class service between Hong Kong and London. The daily flight is operated by Hong Kong Airlines, a carrier that’s owned by China’s HNA Group. The hope? To win market share from the dominant ...

Can beggars be choosers?

EU infuriates China with new carbon tax, but still asks for bailout billions
Feb 17, 2012 (WiC 138)

This week the president of the EU Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, were both in Beijing to meet Chinese leaders. Their dilemma: what tone to strike at their meetings in the Chinese capital. On ...

Southern comfort for Airbus

In a world first, Chinese airline will use A380 on domestic routes
Sep 30, 2011 (WiC 124)

Four years after the A380 first began to fly commercially, a Chinese carrier is about to take receipt of its first Airbus double-decker. China Southern announced that it would buy the A380 back in 2005, with the original (and somewhat ...

The not so friendly skies

A new airline is launched but air traffic problems remain
Sep 2, 2011 (WiC 120)

With China’s high-speed rail sector struggling against a litany of negative headlines, the country’s aviation industry has been basking in a relative glow by comparison. So the last thing airline executives wanted was a major safety scare ...

A tough sell just got tougher

After five accidents, Chinese-made aircraft in spotlight for safety record
May 20, 2011 (WiC 107)

Earlier this month Merpati Nusantara Airlines crashed a plane in the Indonesian province of West Papua killing 27 passengers. The Economic Observer said the crash was especially newsworthy in China as it was the fifth accident since January ...

Chinese airlines protest new EU green regulation
Apr 15, 2011 (WiC 103)

Beware the eco-babble of the eco-loonies is one warning from Michael O’Leary, the caustic chief executive of Ryanair, on the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). WiC isn’t quite sure how O’Leary’s admonition would ...

Why one’s just not enough

Beijing searches for site to build a second airport
Feb 25, 2011 (WiC 96)

Most WiC readers probably have a complaint or two of their own about their experiences of antiquated airport infrastructure, especially those travelling regulary in Europe and the US. But few of us want to see a brand new airport built next ...

Ready for take-off?

China’s fourth biggest airline group taxis towards a Hong Kong listing
Jan 21, 2011 (WiC 92)

The new hit movie If You Are the One 2 featured top actress Shu Qui as a flight attendant; and in case you couldn’t guess the airline’s identity from her stylish uniform, the film also featured a long panning shot of an aircraft ...

Air traffic congestion is a growing headache for Chinese aviation
Oct 29, 2010 (WiC 83)

Blame the Martians, not us. At least it’s a novel excuse. And travel-weary passengers on Chinese airlines have been hearing a few of those recently. It follows news from Hangzhou in July that 18 flights were disrupted at the city’s ...

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