By Gleb Stolyarov and Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Russia is urging the U.N. civil aviation agency to ease sanctions on spare parts and overflights, dismissing its response to the war in Ukraine as “unlawful coercive measures,” according to working papers and a source familiar with the matter. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western…
An investigation into an incident involving an arriving Siberia Airlines cargo plane that disrupted runway operations at Hong Kong International Airport for 90 minutes in 2021 has found that the incident was caused by the crew’s lack of knowledge of an unopened paved area, which they mistook for the assigned runway exit. The report, published…
The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant Comac, signalling its ambitions to dominate the skies with the radical new jet that could redefine global air travel. In a recent academic paper, Comac engineers revealed the blueprint of a 1.6-Mach airliner designed to fly further…
A rise in in-flight thefts has triggered “growing concern” among airlines based in the Asia-Pacific and become the subject of industry discussion, an aviation body has said, adding aircrew are now more watchful for any suspicious behaviour. Subhas Menon, director general of the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines (AAPA), told the Post during the AAPA Annual…