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The Boeing 787, better known as the Dreamliner, represented Boeing’s effort to regain leadership in the industry after its rival, Airbus, won the race to replace the jumbo jet with the Airbus A380. However, the Dreamliner was delayed for years by technical problems and suffered a major setback in January 2013 when a series of battery incidents, including a fire on one plane, caused 50 Dreamliners in service around the world to be grounded.
- The aviation giant is under scrutiny by US lawmakers after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight in January
- The planemaker says documents on the part in question were never created, but an ex-Boeing engineer says he has handed the records to the FBI
Embattled plane maker rejected claims from a former employee that some 787 Dreamliner aircraft could have a shortened service life because the company had taken technical ‘short cuts’ to speed up production.
On Monday, the plane travelling from Sydney to Auckland with 263 passengers and nine crew members on board dropped abruptly mid-flight – without explanation.
More than a dozen ambulances and other medical vehicles rushed to treat passengers on the Latam flight when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed in Auckland.
Close to 60,000 people attended the four trade days of the show, nearly four times as many as in 2022 when foreign visitors required daily rapid tests for Covid-19.
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, which makes the C919 and ARJ21, asks for increased policy support at home and help to certify its aircraft to fly overseas
Juneyao Airlines took delivery of its newest 787 Dreamliner on Thursday, an indication that strained US-China trade relations may be easing and a potential precursor to the resumption of 737 Max deliveries.
Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 flight from London to New York was powered without using fossil fuels, relying on so-called sustainable aviation fuel made up largely of tallow and other waste fats.
Chief executive Stanley Hui says carrier will tap into resources at Shenzhen-based Donghai Airlines and get eight or nine pilots to begin with.
Company chief executive Stanley Hui says he aims to open up new routes to places such as Manila and Ho Chi Minh City and boost flight frequencies to current destinations,
First Greater Bay Airlines flight to Osaka from Hong Kong took off on Friday morning, with return leg set for 6pm.
Fledgling airline, which has three aircraft at present, places order for 15 Boeing 737-9 planes and signed letter of intent to buy five of its 787 Dreamliners.
Passengers were reportedly left without food, the entertainment system was turned off and there were issues with the air conditioning.
Boeing once failed again to catch up with European rival Airbus in orders and aircraft deliveries. The US plane maker’s net order book in 2022 stood at 774, compared with 820 for Airbus.
Before summer, a writer saved US$1,500 flying from Asia to Europe over 41 hours using Kiwi.com. On the return leg, he spent even less flying Scoot and had two fewer layovers.
The route was supposed to start in 2020, then the pandemic hit; Singapore Airlines currently offers the world’s longest regular direct flights – to New York – that cover about 15,300km and take 18 hours and 40 minutes.
First Etihad retired its A380s, now its Boeing 777s are going too – will neighbours Emirates and Qatar Airways make the same pandemic cuts next?
The report from the Senate Commerce Committee Republican staff said testing of a key safety system tied to both fatal crashes was contrary to proper protocol.
The future of Boeing’s 737 MAX in China remains unclear, even as the troubled passenger jet is approved to return to the skies in the US and Europe.
The 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019 and cost Boeing about US$20 billion.
China’s answer to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly has hurdles to overcome before its planned roll-out next year, and though the chief designer of the C919 jet says it is on schedule, not all industry analysts agree.
The lucrative market of flying passengers between India and Europe, Japan or beyond is currently dominated by Etihad and Emirates, which connect through their hubs in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The city’s de facto flag carrier was one of the first airlines to order the new long-haul jets, signing up for 21 of the planes in a multibillion-dollar deal.
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Aviation authorities grounded all MAX series aircraft after crashes involving variants of the planes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that left 346 people dead.
Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights late into the fall of this year – incurring losses of hundreds of millions of dollars – while a timeline for the jet’s return remains uncertain
