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 [...]
The fluctuating and soaring oil prices pushed airline companies in China to augment their fuel surcharges to domestic routes to help compensate on cost pressure in the middle of continuous rise in oil prices. Air China, China Eastern Airlines and other Chinese carriers raised the fuel surcharge to 110 yuan (US$16.81) from 90 yuan for domestic flights of more than [...]
Hong Kong based private jet seller Avion Pacific Ltd., confirms that there are ten rich people living in Shenzhen purchased their owned private jets. Established in 1993 the company have sold 60 private jets in the mainland, with ten of them from Shenzhen. Prices of private jets is between 4 million yuan up to 150 [...]
China Deer Jet Corporation just opened their first fixed based operation in the Southern China, and is planning to open more fixed based operations in different parts of the country to service the fast growing aviation business market. Located at the Terminal B in Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, the Shenzhen Business Aviation Center handles around [...]
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