Singapore Airlines subsidiary SIA Cargo has agreed to form a joint venture cargo airline in China with Dahlia Investments, a subsidiary of Singapore government investment arm Temasek Holdings, and Chinese state-owned enterprise China Great Wall Industry. Great Wall Airlines will be incorporated in Shanghai and will begin operations in the first half of 2006, says SIA Cargo. The new airline will operate on domestic routes and on services to Europe, east Asia and the USA.
Source: Airline Business
Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
GE Aerospace is partnering with NASA to carry out a series of flight tests designed to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
