Skytrax Airline Quality Website (www.airlinequality.com) is the most reliable source for airline quality, as it consists of airline quality opinions contributed by both passengers and the experts. Its 'Star Ranking' is the industry standard for airline quality, and reflects the quality of an airline well. Many USA carriers, like United, ...

A people of a Hong Kong-based aviation newsgroup (news://news.hkteen.org/hkteen.talk.aviation) said China Airlines cannot use polar routes on Taiwan - North America flights, because the polar routes have to go via Mainland China. If the aircrafts of Taiwanese airlines (China Airlines and EVA Air) cannot fly over the air over Mainalnd China, then ...

Taiwan's China Airlines just selected A330 for fleet renewal. The batch of 12 aircrafts would be delivered from 2004 to 2007. This is a very wise selection, as China Airlines is operating 5 A340 already, and choosing A330 would minimize crew training and maintenance costs. The Press Release also said China Airlines is the airline in the world ...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/100543_sonic19.shtml Boeing just announced it would not develop Sonic Cruiser, which is promised to change the aviation world. It would develop a super efficient plane that looks very much like 767 and 777, with 767-400ER style raked winglet, capacity of 200-250, twin-engined design, and range of at least ...

The largest joke in aircarft industry ever is USSR's decision to rush Tu-144 supersonic jet without very good engineering, thus making these aircarfts have very short life of only 10 years in service, and cannot even sustain 1 return flight per week of only 2000 miles (3200km) per trip (that is, only 4 flight hours per week, totalling only 2100 ...

The Chinese Government just found the cause for China Northern MD80 crash in Dalian during landing, on 7 May 2002, which 112 passengers were died in the diaster. The authority said the accident is caused by fire, maybe because of smoking during landing. A passenger, Mr Zhang, is accused for the diaster. He may face life sentence when he is found ...

http://www.cfm56.com/news/press/cfm02-32.htm CFM56 engine celebrates 20 years of commercial service. CFM56 consortium was set up in 1974. There was not one order until March 1979, just 2 weeks before the oficial cancellation of the program, when Delta, United and Flying Tigers chose CFM56 engines to re-engine DC8. The US Air Force then ordered a ...

http://www.airbus.com/dynamic/media/press_releases.asp#0 Cathay Pacific is the 1st Asian airline to operate Airbus A340-600, the largest aircraft of Airbus. What's the best is the cabin is ultra spacious, having only 8 First Class seats of 80'' seat pitch and 4-abreast, 60 Business Class seats of 60'' seat pitch and 6-abreast, and 220 Economy ...

I think Singapore Airlines is one of the airline with best finance, as it is profitable every year since early 1980's, even when Cathay Pacific is losing money in 1998-99 Asian Economic Crisis. I think many European fully state-owned airlines, like TAP Portugal, Iberia, Alitalia, Air France, Olympic Airways, are the airlines with worst finance, ...

Qantas just bought 22.5% share of AirNZ for NZ$550 million (US$273 million) in late Nov 2002. AirNZ would not be in Star Alliance since 9 Dec 2002, and would join Australasian Alliance headed by Qantas (that is, AirNZ may join oneworld which Qantas joins), and there would be more codesharing between them. This would make Qantas - AirNZ have ...