All Asia Pacific news – Page 559
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AnalysisANALYSIS: India’s fleet grows despite short-term struggles
India's airlines continue to struggle with high costs and competition, but a huge order backlog ensures major growth ahead.
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NewsPICTURES: Amphibious assault Surion makes maiden flight
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has conducted the maiden flight of a Surion transport helicopter optimised for amphibious assault operations.
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NewsMalaysia to upgrade and arm S-61 "Nuri" fleet
Malaysia is to boost its ability to combat future militant incursions by arming its AgustaWestland AW109s and transferring some upgraded Sikorsky S-61 “Nuri” utility helicopters to army aviation control.
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NewsAirAsia QZ8501 accident may reflect a trend
Accidents to aircraft cruising through tropical or sub-tropical zones are repeating often enough now for the industry to have cause to refresh its pilots on the risks. There have been three other accidents in similar circumstances during the last ten years.
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NewsPICTURES: Mitsubishi releases pictures of MRJ flight test fleet
Mitsubishi Aircraft has released pictures of its flight test fleet in various stages of final assembly, as its MRJ regional jet programme draws near to its scheduled first flight in 2Q 2015.
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NewsATSB readies recovery effort for MH370
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a tender seeking recovery services in the event that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that operated missing flight MH370 is found.
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Korean Air to launch new China services
Korean Air plans to launch three new services to China in March and May.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will JAL, ANA codeshares save Skymark?
Japanese carrier Skymark Airlines’ unusual plan to have rivals Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways both codeshare on some of its flights appears to be coming to fruition, but it still faces some major short-term challenges.
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Asian deal is sweet Music for Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems has been awarded a contract from an undisclosed Asian nation to provide mini-Music directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) systems for its army fleet of Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Accidents are not the only threat to safety
If large numbers of passengers and crew die on a commercial airline flight because of an event that was not an accident, is it valid to exclude it from airline safety statistics? After all, passengers boarding a flight want to be assured their lives are not at risk from any ...
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NewsIndonesia to restrict publication of QZ8501 preliminary report
Indonesia will not publicly release the results of a preliminary investigation into the 28 December 2014 crash of an Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 aircraft.
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NewsCrashed AirAsia A320 undertook rapid climb: minister
Indonesia’s parliament has been told that the Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 which crashed into the Java Sea last month climbed rapidly before its fatal descent.
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Ascend retains appraiser of the year award
Flightglobal consultancy Ascend has for the fourth time in five years been named appraiser of the year at the Aviation 100 Awards.
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CALC delivers third A320 to Qingdao Airlines
China Aircraft Leasing (CALC) has delivered a new Airbus A320 on lease to Qingdao Airlines, taking its portfolio to 45 aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Looking beyond the short-term impact of low oil prices
Recent and apparently continuing falls in the oil price – with Brent trading below $50 per barrel today – provides further evidence of the difficulties associated with forecasting, writes CTAIRA analyst Chris Tarry.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Refining the MH370 search
Since Capt Simon Hardy revealed in Flightglobal/Flight International his calculations about where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to have come to rest, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau – leading the MH370 search team – has spoken at length to him.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fleet Watch - Orders for December 2014
Commercial aircraft net orders came in at 647 for December 2014 where 673 new orders were offset by 26 cancellations.
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News13 top-selling narrowbody and widebody types of 2014
With the big two manufacturers having released their orders and deliveries figures this week, these are their 13 top-selling narrowbody and widebody types of 2014.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Narrowbody conversions drive P2F market in 2014
The year 2014 saw a 10% increase in global passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions to 70 aircraft, driven by growth in narrowbody conversions, while extreme weakness continued to dog the widebody conversion market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Is Haneda a network Shangri-La for US carriers?
One could easily think that Tokyo Haneda International airport is the airline network equivalent of Shangri-La based solely on US carriers repeated pining for access to the airport.