Industrials

Comac C919 Flyby of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour Shows Planemaking Credentials

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Comac C919 Flyby of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour Shows Planemaking Credentials

China displayed its aircraft-manufacturing credentials by conducting a flyby of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour with a domestically made passenger plane designed to take on Airbus SE and Boeing Co. narrowbodies. Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd., the official name of planemaker Comac, flew its C919 jet around the harbor in two loops on Saturday morning, … Read more

Air France to Abandon Orly Airport on Domestic Travel Drop

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Air France to Abandon Orly Airport on Domestic Travel Drop

Air France plans to retreat from the Paris Orly airport in coming years from where the carrier connects the capital with the country’s south, responding to a sharp drop in domestic flights as people switch increasingly to videoconferencing and rail travel. The airline, part of the Air France-KLM group, will complete the move to the … Read more