Reports in Chinese media are painting a bizarre picture of an incident on a flight back in late February. Donghai Airlines was operating a service from Nantong to Xian on February 20 th , when an argument erupted, leaving a pilot with a missing tooth and a flight attendant with a broken arm! Here’s what happened. Midair conflict turns nasty Two members …
The new narrowbody jet of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) is on track to be certified in 2021, its chief designer says. This means that the first C919 could be in service with launch customer China Eastern Airlines before the end of the year and that Boeing and Airbus could soon face real competition on the lucrative Chinese sh …
Blaming a discrepancy in their employee headcount numbers, Hong Kong Airlines is under fire after receiving wage subsidies it wasn’t entitled to. A group of former cabin crew recently brought the situation to a head. The former employees lodged a complaint with Hong Kong’s administration about the wage subsidy payments. As a result, regulators hit …
Hong Kong is looking over plans that would make it mandatory for all arriving airline crews to quarantine in a hotel for 14 days. These talks have emerged amid a recent outbreak of coronavirus in the special administrative region. Stringent restrictions Previously, crew members have been exempt from the mandatory quarantine requirements for those ent …
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