China Claims a Commercial Flight of a Home-Grown Plane Signals Beginning of the End of Aviation Duopoly
China Eastern Airlines entered its home-grown narrow-body C919 into passenger service on Sunday and completed its first commercial flight.
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China Eastern Airlines entered its home-grown narrow-body C919 into passenger service on Sunday and completed its first commercial flight.
Cathay Pacific Airways has fired three flight attendants after a complaint that they had discriminated against non-English speaking passengers.
The incident apparently took place on a Sunday flight from the Chinese city of Chengdu to Hong Kong.
An unidentified passenger took to social media, noting that some crew members were disrespectful to people, who didn't speak English or Cantonese.
Its association with India is over 70 years old and spans both civil and military aviation. The Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft used by the air force beginning the 1940s and the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft flown by Air India, both had Pratt & Whitney (P&W) engines. The Indian Air Force's present-day, heavy-lift C-17 Globemaster III and the yet-to-be-inducted C-295 planes, too, have P&W power plants.