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Qantas To Launch Longest Non-Stop Passenger Flight

Qantas announced on Monday it will launch the world's longest non-stop commercial flight, with passengers set to spend 19 hours in the air traveling from Sydney to London by the end of 2025.After five years of planning, the airline said it was ordering 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft to operate the "Project Sunrise" flights to cities including London and New York.Non-stop flights will start from Sydney by the end of 2025, it said, with long-haul trips later planned to include Melb

2 May 2022

Airbus And Boeing Have A Common Rival: China

While the United States (US) and Europe waged a 17-year trade battle over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus, China poured money into its own commercial aircraft to take on the Western aviation duopoly.It took a common threat for the US and Europe to finally put an end to their dispute this past week, as the two sides signed a five-year truce suspending tit-for-tat tariffs.US President Joe Biden made it clear during his visit to Brussels on Tuesday: Washington and Brussels must "work togethe

20 June 2021

Malaysian PM downplays AirAsia probe

Receiving money to "offset" buying planes and equipment did not necessarily constitute bribery, Malaysia's Prime Minister said Thursday, days after AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes stepped aside temporarily in the wake of a US$4 billion Airbus graft scandal.AirAsia founder and CEO Fernandes and company executive Chairman Kamarudin Meranun deny allegations of misconduct, but have stepped aside after Airbus last week settled a court case in Europe which alleged the planemaker paid bri

7 February 2020

AirAsia chiefs step aside amid Airbus probe

Two AirAsia chiefs will step aside for at least two months as authorities and the airline look into claims that aerospace giant Airbus paid the company US$50 million to secure a plane order.Airbus said last week it had agreed to set aside up to EUR3.6 billion to settle a corruption probe by authorities in France, Britain and the United States.As news of the probe widened, the Malaysia-based AirAsia was named in a bribery investigation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), allegedly im

4 February 2020

EXCLUSIVE: Airbus Continues Flying High In Southeast Asia

With the aviation industry’s strong growth and the shortening of travel times to almost any point on the globe, the world has become a much smaller place. Journeys which just a generation ago would have taken weeks can now be achieved in a day or even less. As for passengers, commercial flight has provided much more than just time-savings.

2 April 2018

The aviation industry continues to fly sky high

Aircraft makers, Boeing and Airbus have plenty to be happy about. Air travel is increasing and as a consequence, demand for commercial planes are up as well. According to a report by Airbus earlier this year, globally, air transport has grown by 60 percent in the last 10 years. Accounting for that growth, the projected demand for commercial planes will reach almost 35,000 by 2036 and Asia Pacific represents 41 percent of that demand.

9 February 2018

Macron Says China Will Finalize Order for 184 A320 Jets Soon

China, poised to become the world’s biggest aircraft buyer, will finalize orders for 184 Airbus SE A320 family aircraft soon, French President Emmanuel Macron said after talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.The previously unannounced orders are mainly for the A320neo jets, with deliveries to 13 airlines scheduled in 2019 and 2020, an aide to Macron told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday, without elaborating or providing the value of the deal.

10 January 2018