China's homegrown jetliner gets key certificate for market entry, needs two more to become fully operationalThe C919 has gone through tests in various types of extreme natural environments including high temperature, high humidity, severe cold, gu...
03 Oct, 2022, 05.53 PM IST
China eases Covid suspension for international flightsIncoming flights carrying five positive Covid-19 cases, or four percent of the total passengers, will now face a reduced one-week suspensio...
07 Aug, 2022, 02.04 PM IST
China's Tibet Airlines plane with 122 people veers off runway, catches fire; over 40 injuredAll the 122 people aboard the Tibet Airlines flight TV9833 from Chongqing to Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been safely evacu...
12 May, 2022, 06.28 PM IST
China plane crash report does not identify causeA brief of the report released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on Wednesday gave no further details on the possible re...
20 Apr, 2022, 04.54 PM IST
China likely to keep curbs on international flights throughout H1 2022: Air China to analystsThe move has broad implications for tourism in the Asia-Pacific region, where Chinese outbound travellers normally play an outsized role, t...
02 Sep, 2021, 11.06 AM IST
China maintains ban on Boeing 737 MAX flightsBoeing's best-selling aircraft was grounded worldwide early last year following two crashes that killed 346 passengers.
20 Nov, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
China de-escalates airline spat with USThe latest spat was rooted in the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) deciding to impose a limit on foreign airlines based on their ac...
04 Jun, 2020, 04.30 PM IST
China plans to extend curbs on international flights until June 30: U.S. embassyChina has drastically cut such flights since March to allay concerns over infections brought by arriving passengers. A so-called "Five One"...
29 May, 2020, 02.38 PM IST
U.S. accuses China of blocking U.S. flights, demands actionThe U.S. government late on Friday accused the Chinese government of making it impossible for U.S. airlines to resume service to China and ...
23 May, 2020, 10.45 AM IST
China's coronavirus epicentre Hubei to resume domestic flights from SundayChina has said the domestic passenger flights will resume operations in the coronavirus epicentre Hubei province, except for its capital Wu...
28 Mar, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
China cancels all flights to and from PakistanFlights from the Middle East that usually overfly Pakistan and the Pakistan-India border will have to re-route over India.
01 Mar, 2019, 11.19 AM IST
China's CAAC shuts down Taizhou airport in Zhejiang province after security breachChina has closed down an airport in Zhejiang province following an incident in which a passenger managed to smuggle in a lighter and knife.
29 Jul, 2015, 11.53 AM IST
China to deploy Beidou navigation system to track flightsChina will use its Beidou satellite navigation system to track civilian flights, in an attempt to avoid mysterious disasters like the crash...
12 Jul, 2015, 09.52 PM IST
China has world's 36 per cent high plateau airportsChina possesses 15 high plateau airports, comprising about 36 per cent of the total in the world, according to the Civil Aviation Administr...
14 Mar, 2015, 06.45 PM IST
China reroutes all planes flying over Ukraine after Malaysia Airlines MH17 crashChina's civil aviation authority said that it has ordered all Chinese aircraft flying over Ukraine to avoid airspace over that area.
18 Jul, 2014, 07.55 PM IST
- China to ban air freighting of 'dangerous goods'
China will ban airlines from carrying explosives for civil use, guns and ammunition to six Olympics host cities, including Beijing, for thr...
17 Jun, 2008, 11.15 AM IST
- China to fly 270 mn passengers
Also by 2010, the number of airports catering to civil aviation will jump to about 190, according to the five-year plan for the Chinese civ...
25 Sep, 2006, 03.40 PM IST