Ariana Afghan Airlines just operated its first flight to Frankfurt since 18 Sep 2002, its first flight to the Western countries since 1979. The airlines also has 20-yaer old A300B4 entered service since then. The airline was probably the smallest flag carrier in the world, but still needs international aids. India supplies pilots to the airline ...

The European short haul business class are not as comfortable as short faul business class seats of other places, like Asia and Americas. The business class cabins in both Asia and Americas are of 4-abreast design, having seat pitch of at least 38'', thus offering no middle seat for passengers and much better comfort than economy class. But most ...

I want to have some view on Airbus A340 and Boeing 777, ETOPS and LROPS after reading Boeing Frontier article on B777 vs A340 and Airbus FAST 28 LROPS article. http://www.airbus.com/pdf/customer/fast28/lrops.pdf http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/i_ca1.html ETOPS is very good for flights not going via extreme areas, like the poles, the ...

The airlines splitted from CAAC (Civil Aviation Authority of China) would be merged into 3 large airline groups, Air China Group, China Southern, China Esatern, and 3 other non-airline groups, and they are all unhooked from the CAAC. The CAAC would not be responsible for profits / losses of any one group mentioned above, and the groups would be ...

It is known that there is no commercial helicoprers capable of carrying more than 8 passengers. This makes the cost of operation very high, thus makingit unpopular in commercial operation. So I thinked of a suggestion of producing large commercial helicopters, with 4 rotors - engine units placed at each corner of the helicopter, and supported with

The length per trip is defined as the length of a trip under the same flight number. For example, Air Tahiti Nui (www.airtahitinui-usa.com) TN21/22 Paris - Los Angeles - Papette has length of 15714km. The triangular routes, like Cathay Pacific Hong Kong - Brisbane - Cairns - Hong Kong route (CX102/CX103), has its average length calculated as half ...

The aviationforum.org had a very good article on 'Fully reclining seat for all passengers?' http://www.aviationforum.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=500 The idea of providing 180 degree reclinable seats for every passenger is nice, but there are some problems: 1. What happens when passengers are dining? Do flight attendents need to stand at ...

China Airlines of Taiwan decided to retire A340-300 ande replaced withB777-200ER in late-2003 because of inability for A340-300 to fly Taipei - New York JFK non-stop flights, and the need to refuel at Anchorage. The airline received its first B777-200ER in Dec 2003, and it had its 1stflight from Taipei to New York JFK. On the Chinese New Year Day

Most advanced countries have flag carriers of good service, like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Swissair, while most under-developed countries have flag carriers of poor service, like Africa. But there are some exceptions. Sri Lanka, which is quite poor and backward, has the flag carrier - SriLankan of excellent service, having very young fleet ...

SriLankan Airlines started its life as Air Lanka with 2 leased B707, carried less than 250,000 passengers in its 1st year. Air Lanka had its 1st A320 entered service in 1992, and hence pave the way to all-Airbus fleet. Air Lanka, which is renamed to SriLankan Airlines in 1998, introduced Emirates as its strategic partner, which holds 40% share of