All Asia Pacific news – Page 560
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Tianjin Airlines launches Guiyang-Zhanjiang-Sanya service
Tianjin Airlines launched a Guiyang-Zhanjiang-Sanya service on 13 January.
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Divers deployed to recover QZ8501 fuselage
Divers have been deployed to recover the fuselage of the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 on the seafloor of the Java Sea.
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Japan defence budget calls for 20 P-1s, 5 V-22s
Japan’s parliament has approved a Y4.98 trillion ($42 billion) defence budget for FY2015, with a strong emphasis on new airpower capabilities.
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Spring Airlines offers 100 million shares for subscription
China's Spring Airlines has offered 100 million shares up for subscription, as it gears towards a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).
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ANALYSIS: Future plans for flight data
Commercial air transport aircraft will soon be required to equip with deployable flight data recorders, or flight tracking equipment, or both. The only question is how soon.
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PICTURE: MRJ ground tests move into higher gear
Mitsubishi Aircraft has started full-scale tests on its MRJ regional jet, as it gears towards the programme’s scheduled first flight in the second quarter of the year.
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NewsFourth vessel joins in underwater search for MH370
An additional vessel has been commissioned to carry out the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Indonesia recovers QZ8501 cockpit voice recorder
Indonesian navy divers has recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501, a day after the aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) was retrieved.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Modernising global airline pilot training
Airlines and the world’s aviation authorities have been warned that if they miss the opportunity to modernise pilot training now, when International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation have finished preparing the ground for change, they may be stuck with 1950s-based training regulations for the foreseeable ...
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Ethiopian to open Tokyo route
Star Alliance carrier Ethiopian Airlines is to open services to Tokyo Narita towards the end of April.
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NewsSearchers recover QZ8501 flight data recorder
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) says search teams have retrieved the flight data recorder from the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501.
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Tejas tests Indian-made EW suite
A Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) Tejas Mk1 light combat aircraft (LCA) has flown for the first time with an Indian-developed electronic warfare (EW) suite and a radar warning receiver (RWR).
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety plans for 2015
Several studies or projects aimed at reducing threats to airline safety are likely to come to fruition in 2015. In one of these, reacting to the French investigator’s recommendations in the report on the loss of Air France flight 447 over the South Atlantic in 2009, Airbus says it is ...
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NewsStrength in numbers: The World's Top 10 military aircraft types
Following the recent publication of our World Air Forces directory for 2015, our Top 10 feature looks at the most popular military aircraft types currently in operation around the globe.
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NewsPings detected from QZ8501 recorder
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) says that searchers have detected pings consistent with the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How oil-price falls affect aircraft demand and values
Rob Morris, head of Ascend Flightglobal Consultancy, here analyses the implications of the downward trend in oil prices
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NAC places new ATR 72-600 with Air KBZ
Nordic Aviation Capital has leased a new ATR 72-600 to Myanmar's Air KBZ.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety performance in 2014
Despite public perception, 2014 has been an extraordinarily good year for aviation safety – but the shadow of MH370, MH17 and December's AirAsia disaster cast a long shadow over the positive figures
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Accident reports published in the last six months of 2014
Accident reports published in last six months of 2014
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OpinionOPINION: After Indonesia AirAsia crash, hand-wringing is not enough
Modern airliners should not fall out of the sky, so why did an Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 do so with no emergency call? Unless it was some form of terrorism or sabotage one can only look to previous experience for answers.