China

Around Laohekou airport, an aircraft crashed in the Hubei province of China, leaving houses on fire. The pilot handled to eject and land with the help of a parachute.

Passengers looking for a direct flight between Nepal and China can now book on Himalaya Airlines, which is connecting the two countries with a direct air link for the first time in two years. Many are hoping for this to be the beginning of other direct flights between the neighboring countries, with Air China also reportedly planning to resume services to Kathmandu soon.

Investigators probing the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining whether it was due to intentional action taken on the flight deck, with no evidence so far of a technical malfunction, two people briefed on the matter told.

The latest airport in Bhairahawa is funded by the Manila-based Asian Development Bank and OPEC Fund for International Development but built by China’s Northwest Civil Aviation Airport Construction Group.

A Tibet Airlines plane caught fire Thursday after veering off the runway at a Chinese airport, but all passengers and crew were “safely evacuated”, the airline told.

A little healthy competition goes a long way when it comes to eco-friendliness. Airline alliance SkyTeam’s Sustainable Flight Challenge commenced at the beginning of the month and is starting to take off in earnest as members offer up their contributions to the three-award-category two-week contest.

Chinese mainland said 1,494 new locally transmitted confirmed COVID cases and 47 deaths in the past 24 hours, the National Health Commission told today.

China’s aviation authorities have imposed flight bans on four more airlines, banning the carriage of inbound passengers on certain routes for two weeks.

In its 2021 Annual Results, filed on March 30, China Southern Airlines (CSA) included scant details about its intentions with the Boeing 737 MAX, referring to it in just a single line.

A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed in southern China on Monday, aviation authorities told. China’s state-run media told the crash led to a fire on a mountain and an unknown number of casualties.