Asia Pacific – Page 493
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NewsPICTURE: Last T-6C trainers head for New Zealand
New Zealand’s final pair of Beechcraft T-6C trainers are on their way to the nation, where they will complete an 11-strong fleet of the type.
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Airbus Helicopters wins support deal from Taiwan SAR agency
Airbus Helicopters has secured a €54.5 million ($59 million) fleet support contract from Taiwan’s National Airborne Services Corps. (NASC).
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Raytheon secures Stinger contract for Seoul’s Apaches
Raytheon has won a $35 million contract to provide Stinger air-to-air missiles for the country’s future fleet of Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Germanwings crash accident investigation
Airline pilot organisations have expressed their shock at the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash on 24 March – but also their distress that international standards for investigation and the release of information are not being followed.
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Airbus Helicopter gets two Japan police orders
Japan’s National Police Agency has placed orders for two Airbus Helicopters rotorcraft to be delivered in 2017.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: CFM leads in engine markets – but P&W on the rise
Powerplants are central to key airframe developments in the air transport sector as the tempo rises around the re-engined narrowbody sector – and the battle is raging as the manufacturers fight for market share.
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KAI tapped as preferred bidder for KFX
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has been selected as the preferred bidder in South Korea’s proposed KFX fighter programme to build an indigenous fighter.
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Air Seychelles to start Paris flights in July
Air Seychelles is to launch a direct route to Paris in July, having previously served the French capital in partnership with shareholder Etihad Airways via Abu Dhabi.
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Xiamen Airlines plans long-haul expansion with 787s
Xiamen Airlines will launch its first long-haul service to Amsterdam using Boeing 787-8 aircraft this July.
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Indian navy locates debris of lost Do-228
The Indian navy has located the debris of a Hindustan Aeronautics’ built Dornier Do-228 maritime surveillance and patrol aircraft (MSA), that was reported lost on 24 March.
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NewsChina's Hainan to acquire 30 787-9s
Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines indicates that it is planning to acquire 30 Boeing 787-9 jets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Air France, Malaysia Airlines losses prompt rethink on flight data
Calgary-based communications specialist Flyht did not need events like the loss of Air France flight 447 or Malaysia Airlines MH370 to persuade it that airlines’ connectivity with their aircraft could beneficially be improved. It had been producing intelligent on-board satellite communications systems since 2003, and if either or both those ...
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Afghan air force receives initial MD530F armed scout helicopters
MD Helicopters has delivered the first six armed MD530F Cayuse Warrior armed scout helicopters the Afghan air force.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: Jotikasthira outlines plan to fix Thai
Thai Airways International’s new president Charamporn Jotikasthira is a man on a mission.
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NewsBackground to Germanwings A320 accident
There are few facts available about the 24 March Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the French Alps, but it is an unusual event in that whatever precipitated the accident appears to have occurred in the cruise. In this case the cruise was a very brief period – less than 3min ...
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Evektor nets MOUs for four EV-55 Outbacks
Czech Aircraft manufacturer Evektor has secured memorandums of understanding from two Malaysian companies for the purchase of four EV-55 Outbacks.
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NewsATSB investigating MAS A330 hard-landing in Melbourne
The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) is conducting an investigation into a severe hard-landing occurrence involving a Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Airbus A330 aircraft on 14 March.
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Transaero picks Boeing Shanghai for 767 heavy maintenance
Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services has signed a heavy maintenance agreement with Transaero Airlines for the latter’s Boeing 767 fleet.
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Europe launches latest SESAR plans
Launching the latest phase of the Single European Sky air traffic management (ATM) operational concept, Eurocontrol says the plan is, by 2019, to deliver an intelligent, networked system capable of optimising individual flight efficiency while maximising traffic flow through finite airspace and airports. Known as Reference Period 2 (RP2) of ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Airbus is squeezing more seats into A330neo
A key component of the re-engined A330neo’s operating cost gains is Airbus’s project to squeeze up to 10 more passenger seats into the cabin, compared with its current-generation A330ceo equivalents.