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Airbus A350. ©REUTERS Airbus A350 takes off for battle with Boeing Airbus's new A350 plane glided smoothly through its maiden flight on Friday, leaving company executives relieved and brimming with confidence for the battle with Boeing that lies ahead.
17 June 2013
Airbus next-generation plane prepares for first flight Airbus's new A350 plane is due to take off on its much-anticipated maiden flight Friday, a milestone for an aircraft the firm hopes will help close the gap with rival Boeing in the lucrative long-haul market.
13 June 2013
©Tengrinews.kz Transportation of tourists from Turkey to cost Kazakhstan $1 million The first group Kazakhstan tourists who could not leave Turkey because of the airline's bankruptcy came back to Kazakhstan on June 9.
10 June 2013
©REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann US drops plan to allow pocket knives on flights The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bowing to a chorus of outrage led by flight attendants, abandoned Wednesday its plan to allow pocket knives in carry-on baggage.
06 June 2013
Qatar mulls launching Doha-Kazakhstan flights Qatar Minister of Economy and Finance Yousef Hussain Kamal met with Kazakhstan Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev.
28 May 2013
Captain Sudiro Usodho conducts a class for pilots. ©REUTERS/Beawiharta Indonesia recruits civil servants to plug pilot shortage Indonesia has started to train civil servants to become flight instructors to meet demand for pilots in its fast-growing aviation industry.
04 May 2013
©REUTERS Solar-powered plane to make first cross-US flight An innovative solar-powered aircraft is set to launch Friday from California on a flight across the United States, the first of its kind aiming to showcase what is possible without fossil fuels.
03 May 2013
Tengrinews.kz stock photo Air Astana launches direct flights from Astana and Almaty to Kiev Air Astana has launched direct flights from Astana and Almaty to Kiev starting from March 31 and April 1, 2013, correspondingly.
01 April 2013
©REUTERS/Adrees Latif Asiana flight attendants win fight to wear trousers Female flight attendants with South Korea's Asiana Airlines on Tuesday won a long-running battle to overturn a skirts-only dress code after the national human rights commission ruled it discriminatory.
26 March 2013
Vietnamese artists at the event timed to the launch of new Air Astana's flight. Photo by Roza Yessenkulova© Air Astana to launch direct Almaty-Ho Chi Minh flight Kazakhstan citizens can now fly to Vietnam’s biggest city with a population of 10 million people via Bangkok.
24 March 2013
©REUTERS/Guillermo Granja Air New Zealand pilot nodded off in cockpit Air New Zealand said Friday that one of its pilots fell into a deep sleep while at the controls of an international flight but insisted that safety aboard the aircraft was never compromised.
02 March 2013
Kazakhstan pilots started training on Spanish C-295. Photo by Vladimir Prokopenko© Kazakhstan Air Force pilots start training on Spanish C-295 Kazakhstan Air Force fleet has been updated with new Spanish C-295 turboprop transport aircrafts.
20 February 2013
©REUTERS Boeing seeks temporary fix for suspect batteries: report US aerospace giant Boeing is considering an interim plan to protect its 787 Dreamliner if its batteries overheat or catch fire.
19 February 2013
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. ©REUTERS/Daniel Munoz New Zealand lawmaker calls for Muslim flight ban A New Zealand politician has labelled young Muslim men a terrorist threat who should be banned from Western airlines, sparking condemnation from Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday.
12 February 2013
Storm stops all flights in and out of New York All air travel in or out of New York was halted Friday as airlines grounded their planes in response to an intensifying blizzard across New England.
10 February 2013
Boeing asks US authorities to allow 787 test flights Boeing asked US aviation authorities Monday to let them carry out 787 Dreamliner test flights after the planes were grounded worldwide following a fire risk linked to the plane's lithium batteries.
05 February 2013
ANA to cancel more Dreamliner flights: media Japan's All Nippon Airways plans to cancel at least 379 flights in February due to the worldwide grounding of Boeing's Dreamliner.
26 January 2013
Storm brings Frankfurt airport to standstill Traffic at Germany's Frankfurt airport came to a complete standstill Sunday, with all flights cancelled for several hours, as freezing rain lashed the runways and created ice problems for the aircraft.
21 January 2013
New company aims to send humans back to the moon Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there.
08 December 2012
Air Astana will abandon using Fokker 50 aircrafts. Photo courtesy of ngs.ru Air Astana cancels Semey and Uralsk flights Air Astana will stop flying to Uralsk and Semey because the airports of these cities require a complete overhaul of runways.
02 December 2012

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