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DECEMBER 2024

Week 51

Orient Aviation Daily Digest December 20, 2024

By Tomasz Sniedziewski

 

News

China Airlines divides wide-body order between Airbus and Boeing

Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) has announced orders for 10 A350-1000s, 10 777-9s and four 777-8Fs. Read More »


 


 

News

Malaysia Airlines accepts first A330neo, puts it to work from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) officially unveiled its first A330neo at the Malaysia Airlines Engineering Complex in Sepang earlier this week in the presence of the country’s minister for transport, YB Anthony Loke Siew Fook. Read More »


 


 

News

China’s airlines to fly record numbers of passengers in 2024

At mid this month, Mainland airlines were forecast to transport 7.84 million air travellers by year-end, Civil Aviation Administration of China, (CAAC) said. Read More »


 

News

Australia’s major airports preparing for busiest summer since 2019

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth Airports are gearing up for this year’s holiday season – from this week to January 27, 2025 – with a forecast it will be their busiest six weeks since the matching days in 2019 when 15.9 million passengers were processed through the four airports. Read More »


 

News

Air India orders 34 training aircraft for new cadet pilot academy

Air India (AI) will acquire 31 single engine Piper aircraft and three Austria manufactured twin engine aircraft for South Asia’s largest Flying Training Organisation (FTO) now under construction at Belora airport in Amravati, Maharashtra. Read More »


 

News

COMAC celebrates one million passengers flown by C919

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) said a China Eastern Airlines (CEA) C919, flight MU2158 from Shanghai Hongqiao to Xi'an Xianyang, carried its millionth C919 commercial airline passenger earlier this week. Read More »


 

Asia-Pacific Aerospace Briefs Today

Today's briefs report news from 3D.aero, Air New Zealand, China Southern Air Logistics, MTU Aero Engines and Neste. Read More »


 

Editorial Note

This is the final edition of Orient Aviation Daily Digest for 2024. Read More »