The fifth largest airline in China Shenzhen Airlines is the latest carrier to join the Star Alliance Group thus bringing its 400 daily flights and 70 destinations to the Alliance network and offers more traveling plans with other Star Alliance member carriers. Shenzhen Airlines offers expedited check-in services to passengers with other Star Alliance members. [...]
Several flights into Shenzhen were diverted and landed in airports in Zhuhai and Guangzhou because of low visibility that was caused by heavy fog accompanied with rain. According to Shenzhen airport authorities said that flights out of Shenzhen were not affected and flights toGuangzhouwere diverted and landed in Shenzhen from midnight to 2 am as [...]
According to a report released by a airplane manufacturer, Chinese Airlines will be placing an order for more than 4,000 large passenger airplanes in the next twenty years. And according to the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, the Chinese aviation market is expected to order around 4,960 aircraft in the span of two decades which [...]
China Eastern airlines will be adding more flights out of Shenzhen. Although the new flights are not traditional direct flights, they share the same internal flight codes of international flights. The new flights will fly out of Shenzhen going to Los Angeles, Vancouver, London, Frankfurt, New Delhi and Paris. Passengers must transfer to Shanghai Pudong [...]
After being grounded for two days due to mechanical failure, China Southern Airlines first A380 was finally cleared for operations. China Southern grounded the super jumbo A380 because of mechanical problems that were found in the flap power drive, 12 days after it began its operations. The flap power glitch was finally fixed Sunday night [...]
A commercial flight demonstration powered by bio-fuel was done last Friday in the interest of investigating the possibility of using bio-fuel in all commercial flights in China. The one-hour trial flight consumed over 13 tons of bio-fuel blend consisting of half conventional jet fuel and half bio-fuel. The combined fuel powered one of the four [...]
The first of five A380 jumbo jets ordered by China Southern Airlines will make its maiden flight form Beijing to Guangzhou today. The A380 will fly the commercial domestic route from Beijing to Guangzhou until October 26. Then it will fly from Beijing to Shanghai Pudong International Airport on October 27 to 29. The A380 [...]
China made a deal with China Aviation Supplies and the Industrial Commerce Bank of China that allowed them to order 88 Airbus A320s from the aircraft manufacturer. The deal is worth US$ 7.5 billion and deliveries of the aircrafts will be from 2012 to 2015. Even though China has plans to start building their own [...]
Two more Shanghai based airlines have officially joined the SkyTeam Alliance, China Eastern and its extension Shanghai airlines are now part of the team making it the second Chinese member following China Southern Airline Co. the move will strengthen China eastern position in the rapidly growing international civil aviation market and at the same time [...]
The forward fuselage prototype of the first Chinese made large passenger aircraft, the C919 was unveiled at the 49th Paris Airshow, which began on Monday and will end on this coming Sunday. The prototype model features a cockpit and forward section of the aircraft’s cabin. The cabin measures 17 meters in length, 5.6 meters in height and [...]
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