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Sukhoi is poised to cancel its Superjet order with Iran.  This news follows our recent story about how difficult obtaining and maintaining aircraft is for Iran's airlines with reintroduced US sanctions. ATR managed to deliver within the period in which sanctions were...

On Saturday the AG600 made its first flight from water.   The program was approved in 2009 and unveiled in 2016.  The plan is for AVIC to start deliveries in 2022.  This is typical for Chinese aircraft programs - it takes a long time to get from the concept approval...

The Chinese aircraft market will be critical for industry participants over the next two decades as China overtakes the United States as the leading player in air transportation.  China has been building its domestic aircraft industry over the last two decades, has...

China is seen as the market of great opportunity.  But the Chinese state is being quite deliberate in their approach to the growth of the airline sector, especially with respect to their regional airlines.  As we have seen with the flight test program of the C919,...