Air China will plans to start a new flight between Bangalore, the IT capital of India, and Shanghai, the business hub of China. The Shanghai-Tokyo-Bangalore flight will begin its operations before December 25, 2009.

Jetstar Asia, the low-cost carrier based in Singapore, has announced that it will launch its first service to mainland China in December 2009.

China and Taiwan are planning to start regular air service on August 31, 2009. This ends the 60-year-old ban on flight links imposed by the government of Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

Continental Airlines has started a daily, non-stop flight between Shanghai in China and New York.

China's biggest aircraft maker sets up defence aviation branch

Continental Airlines will launch daily nonstop scheduled flights between New York (Newark Liberty) and  Shanghai,  China from March 25, 2009.

Continental Airlines, based in Huston, Texas, the United Sates, will start scheduled service between New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport and Shanghai in China from March 25, 2009.

China's aviation sector posts losses amounting to 28 billion yuan in 2008 – its biggest loss in 30 years.

Kunming Airlines, based in Kunming, Yunnan province, People’s Republic of China, has announced that it would launch its first service on February 15, 2009, flying from Kunming to Changsha and then on to Harbin.

Airbus Industrie, based in Toulouse, France, and a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), has signed an agreement with a group of Chinese industrial partners to set up a joint-venture manufacturing centre in Harbin, China, to make carbon-fibre composite parts as well as components for the Airbus A350XWB and Airbus A320 family.

Air China, the state-owned flag-carrier airline of China and the country’s largest international carrier, said it was expecting huge losses for 2008 because of the downturn in global traffic demand and the high prices of aviation turbine fuel during most part of the year.

In order to prop up its aviation industry amidst global economic gloom, China is giving loans in a big way to the country’s main aircraft manufacturer as well as tax break to its airlines.

Northwest Airlines, headquartered in Minnesota, the United States, and a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, is seeking to delay or cut back its long-cherished service between the United States and China.

On November 28, 2008, China successfully completed the maiden flight of its first independently developed regional jet aircraft, the ARJ21-700. Embraer and Bombardier better watch out!

BOC Aviation, the aircraft-leasing division of Bank of China, one of the big four state-owned commercial banks of the People’s Republic of China, has placed additional orders with Airbus Industrie for 20 aircraft of the Airbus A320 family.

GE Commercial Aviation Services based in the United States is planning to buy 5 jet aircraft made in China, in the first overseas orders for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, the Chinese aircraft manufacturer.

Boeing Company, the aircraft-manufacturing giant based in Chicago, Illinois, the United States, has described China as the “fastest-growing aviation market in the world.”

Two of China’s biggest airlines post losses Air China and China Eastern Airlines, two of the largest airlines in China, have reported heavy losses for the third quarter of 2008, which both carriers blamed on weakening demand and higher costs of fuel. Air China Limited, the state-owned carier of the People’s Republic ...

Singapore Airlines, the national airline of Singapore, has assured its customers that they need not worry about consuming dairy products made in China onboard the carrier’s flights since all items produced in China have been removed from the in-flight menu.

Aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus Industrie has opened a final assembly line for its A320 aircraft in Tianjin in northern China. The new facility is the first of its kind built by Airbus outside Europe.

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, has requested the United States Department of Transportation to allow the carrier to delay the launching of its non-stop service between O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, the United States, and Beijing, China, by one year.

According to an official of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration, Taiwan and China have signed a “historic agreement” to allow each side to operate 18 round-trip passenger charter flights from Friday through Monday.

Dubai based airline giant Emirates has said that flying to Guangzhou with it would bring an introductory offer of free hotel stay for its passengers. The offer lasts from July 1 to  September 30, 2008 and would be open to passengers in all classes of travel. 

China has opened an aviation company, backed by the government, to manufacture large commercial jets.

Two airlines based in the United States – US Airways and United Airlines – that had won approval from the US Department of Transportation to start routes to China are putting off the launch of the new services by one year owing to high costs of aviation fuel.