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Boeing 787

The Boeing 787, better known as the Dreamliner, represented Boeing’s effort to regain leadership in the industry after its rival, Airbus, won the race to replace the jumbo jet with the Airbus A380. However, the Dreamliner was delayed for years by technical problems and suffered a major setback in January 2013 when a series of battery incidents, including a fire on one plane, caused 50 Dreamliners in service around the world to be grounded.

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9 September, 2024

Donald and Melania Trump exit Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport in 2020. Photo: AFP

Boeing

Trump unlikely to get new Air Force One in his presidency given Boeing delays

The project to build two new jets is so late that Boeing has told the US Air Force it expects to deliver the planes in 2029 or later.

13 Dec 2024 - 6:42PMvideocam

Boeing

US judge rejects Boeing plea deal in conspiracy case related to fatal crashes

6 Dec 2024 - 10:30AMvideocam

Aviation

Explainer | Here are the 4 civilian aircraft behind China’s sky-high aviation ambitions

30 Jul 2024 - 9:23AMvideocam

Aviation accidents

Boeing whistle-blower says told to ‘shut up’ when he raised safety issues

The aviation giant is under scrutiny by US lawmakers after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight in January.

18 Apr 2024 - 5:32AM

US Senator Roger Marshall holds up a graphic illustrating quality issues with a Boeing 787 plane during a hearing on Wednesday by the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations on Boeing’s safety culture. Photo: AFP

Aviation

US officials investigate after Boeing whistle-blower raises concerns about 787

Embattled plane maker rejected claims from a former employee that some 787 Dreamliner aircraft could have a shortened service life because the company had taken technical ‘short cuts’ to speed up production.

10 Apr 2024 - 2:27PMvideocam

Inside Latam Flight 800 as it plunged mid-air

12 Mar 2024 - 7:00PM

New Zealand

New Zealand seizing Latam Boeing 787 black boxes after mid-air plunge injured 50

On Monday, the plane travelling from Sydney to Auckland with 263 passengers and nine crew members on board dropped abruptly mid-flight – without explanation.

12 Mar 2024 - 2:39PM

New Zealand

12 hospitalised in New Zealand after turbulence leaves ‘whole plane screaming’

More than a dozen ambulances and other medical vehicles rushed to treat passengers on the Latam flight when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed in Auckland.

12 Mar 2024 - 2:41PM

Singapore

Singapore Airshow’s record numbers, China’s C919, raise hopes of post Covid boom

Close to 60,000 people attended the four trade days of the show, nearly four times as many as in 2022 when foreign visitors required daily rapid tests for Covid-19.

23 Feb 2024 - 8:25PM

China manufacturing

As Boeing 787 Dreamliner returns, call lands to support China’s home-grown jets

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, which makes the C919 and ARJ21, asks for increased policy support at home and help to certify its aircraft to fly overseas

22 Dec 2023 - 9:00PMvideocam

The C919 arrived in Hong Kong earlier this month as part of its first flight outside of mainland China. Photo: Jelly Tse

US-China relations

Boeing secures first Dreamliner delivery to China since 2019

Juneyao Airlines took delivery of its newest 787 Dreamliner on Thursday, an indication that strained US-China trade relations may be easing and a potential precursor to the resumption of 737 Max deliveries.

22 Dec 2023 - 5:49AM

Aviation

Jetliner makes first-ever transatlantic flight with low-carbon fuel

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 flight from London to New York was powered without using fossil fuels, relying on so-called sustainable aviation fuel made up largely of tallow and other waste fats.

29 Nov 2023 - 1:54PMvideocam

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines aims to land pilots, cabin crew from mainland

Chief executive Stanley Hui says carrier will tap into resources at Shenzhen-based Donghai Airlines and get eight or nine pilots to begin with.

4 Oct 2023 - 8:30PM

Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines wants government to act to increase competition

Company chief executive Stanley Hui says he aims to open up new routes to places such as Manila and Ho Chi Minh City and boost flight frequencies to current destinations,

28 Apr 2023 - 11:02PM

GBA crew members welcome passengers at the check in for the airline’s inaugural flight to Osaka in Japan. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Greater Bay Area

And they’re off! Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines launches first flight to Osaka

First Greater Bay Airlines flight to Osaka from Hong Kong took off on Friday morning, with return leg set for 6pm.

28 Apr 2023 - 7:59PM

Greater Bay Airlines CEO Stanley Hui Hon-Chung (centre) with cabin crew members Candy Lau Ka-chun and Jordan Tseung Tat celebrate the carrier’s first flight to Osaka. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Hong Kong transport

Boeing fights off competition to land Greater Bay Airlines order in Hong Kong

Fledgling airline, which has three aircraft at present, places order for 15 Boeing 737-9 planes and signed letter of intent to buy five of its 787 Dreamliners.

3 Mar 2023 - 8:05PM

Australia

7 hours on a plane in the Australian outback: Jetstar passengers’ diversion hell

Passengers were reportedly left without food, the entertainment system was turned off and there were issues with the air conditioning.

27 Feb 2023 - 11:01AM

Boeing

Boeing orders rise to 4-year high, but Airbus still No 1 aircraft maker in 2022

Boeing once failed again to catch up with European rival Airbus in orders and aircraft deliveries. The US plane maker’s net order book in 2022 stood at 774, compared with 820 for Airbus.

11 Jan 2023 - 11:50AMvideocam

Boeing delivered18 737 MAX aircraft to Southwest Airlines in December, the most it has supplied to a single airline customer in a month. Photo: Reuters

Asia travel

Don’t book a cheap flight from Europe to Asia without reading this first

Before summer, a writer saved US$1,500 flying from Asia to Europe over 41 hours using Kiwi.com. On the return leg, he spent even less flying Scoot and had two fewer layovers.

14 Oct 2022 - 12:47PM

New Zealand

Air New Zealand offering 17-hour flights from New York

The route was supposed to start in 2020, then the pandemic hit; Singapore Airlines currently offers the world’s longest regular direct flights – to New York – that cover about 15,300km and take 18 hours and 40 minutes.

24 Mar 2022 - 12:50AM

Aviation

Grounded: loss of a status symbol as Etihad ditches its swankiest jets

First Etihad retired its A380s, now its Boeing 777s are going too – will neighbours Emirates and Qatar Airways make the same pandemic cuts next?

27 Apr 2021 - 2:00PM

Boeing

Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ test pilots after fatal crashes

The report from the Senate Commerce Committee Republican staff said testing of a key safety system tied to both fatal crashes was contrary to proper protocol.

19 Dec 2020 - 7:50PMvideocam

Boeing 60-737 MAX planes. Photo: Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times / TNS

US-China relations

Return of Boeing 737 MAX to China up in the air amid geopolitical friction

The future of Boeing’s 737 MAX in China remains unclear, even as the troubled passenger jet is approved to return to the skies in the US and Europe.

11 Dec 2020 - 11:01PMvideocam

Boeing

Opinion | Can Boeing regain customer trust as its 737 MAX takes flight again?

The two deadly 737 MAX crashes – and the way the crisis was handled – has left the US brand’s reputation in tatters, can it survive?

26 Nov 2020 - 1:13PM

Boeing

Boeing 737 MAX can fly again after being grounded for 20 months

The 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019 and cost Boeing about US$20 billion.

19 Nov 2020 - 7:26PMvideocam

The 737 MAX is a re-engined upgrade of a jet first introduced in the 1960s. Photo: Reuters

China economy

Fate of China’s home-grown passenger jet up in the air amid US tech curbs

China’s answer to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly has hurdles to overcome before its planned roll-out next year, and though the chief designer of the C919 jet says it is on schedule, not all industry analysts agree.

15 Nov 2020 - 11:28PM

China's second domestically developed large passenger jet, the Comac C919, lands at Dongying Shengli Airport in Dongying city, Shandong province, in July 2018. Photo: Imaginechina

Singapore

Covid-19 could hand Singapore Airlines more of Indian market

The lucrative market of flying passengers between India and Europe, Japan or beyond is currently dominated by Etihad and Emirates, which connect through their hubs in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

25 Jun 2020 - 5:17PM

Cathay Pacific

Exclusive | Cathay Pacific mulls changing up Boeing 777X order: sources

The city’s de facto flag carrier was one of the first airlines to order the new long-haul jets, signing up for 21 of the planes in a multibillion-dollar deal.

24 Apr 2020 - 5:09PM

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