China Eastern Airlines has placed a follow-on order with COMAC for 100 C919s. The airline said on September 28 that it has signed an aircraft sales agreement for the aircraft, which will be delivered between 2024 and 2031. The order has…
Flag carrier Air Tanzania Corporate Limited (ATCL) has suspended services to China for an unspecified period as one of its Boeing 787-8s goes into heavy maintenance. Suspension of the three-times-weekly service to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) was announced in a…
China’s Big Three airlines – Air China, China Southern, and China Eastern – all have now reported their half-year 2023 results. The picture that emerges is that all three have significantly reduced their losses, but have some way to go until…
AirAsia X intends to exponentially but at the same time prudently further grow capacity as it continues its recovery from the pandemic in Asia. With one exception: China. The carrier plans to grow capacity to China three-fold by the end…
Nine months after the E190-E2, the Embraer E195-E2 has now also received the type certificate from the Chinese regulatory agency CAAC. The airframer says it is confident that it will be able to conclude sales for the E2-series, on which it…
Uganda Airlines faces a fast-paced end to the year, with three new routes scheduled for launch starting October 2023. The back-to-back launches, will be the much-delayed Lagos and Mumbai routes as well as Riyadh via Jeddah. The three routes, which…