kuwait city - Kuwait's national carrier is due to sign a multi-billion-dollar deal with Airbus to purchase 25 new aircraft valued at $3.0 billion with the first delivery expected in 2019, a well-informed newspaper reported on Sunday.The deal will be signed "very soon," the privately-owned Al-Watan ...

BUSAN, South Korea : A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived off South Korea Saturday for drills, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.The Nimitz Strike Group includes 64 aircraft as well as cruisers and destroyers, said the group’s commander, ...

Islamabad- Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has approved the handing over of the special VVIP aircraft A-310 to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as part of the caretaker government’s austerity measures to cut expenditures. The decision has been taken as a measure of ...

karachi - The National Flag Carrier will soon acquire twelve medium range aircraft in PIA fleet. This was stated by Chairman PIA, Lt. General (Retd) Asif Yasin Mailk at PIA’s two- day Global Marketing Conference which concluded on Tuesday. Chairman of PIA said that all employees have to work ...

lahore - Society of Aircraft Engineers Pakistan (SAEP) President Shoukat Jamshed has termed the technical advice of Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (PALPA) President Captain Sohail Baloch on aircraft maintenance baseless. He reacted upon the statement of Baloch wherein he said that aerodynamic ...

BEIJING China is planning a second and larger aircraft carrier, a top naval officer said according to state media Wednesday, after its first carrier was commissioned last year as part of a military buildup.The confirmation of a second vessel comes amid escalating maritime territorial disputes ...

BEIJING China will send its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, on a voyage on the high seas for the first time within a year, the state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday.The Liaoning, purchased used from Ukraine and refurbished in China, has conducted more than 100 exercises and experiments ...

NEW DELHI  - According to latest WikiLeaks revelations, the late Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi may have worked as a middleman for Swedish company, Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s. However, Saab-Scania eventually could not seal the ...

LAHORE - A meeting under the patronage of South Asia Regional Initiative (SARI) was organised to formulate aircraft airworthiness regulations in line with EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) on Friday. The regulations encompassing various facts of airworthiness would not only bring a positive ...

Four pilots and a civilian were killed and seven persons sustained injuries as two Mushak trainer aircraft of Pakistan Air Force collided in the air on Thursday moring during routine flight mission in Rashakai area here. According to Police and eyewitnesses, the two Mushak planes collided in the ...

PESHAWAR  - Two aircraft narrowly escaped a disastrous collision as they came face to face on the same runway here on Tuesday.According to details, one aircraft was still on the runway when control tower mistakenly allowed another aircraft of a private airline to take off. There was a danger ...

LAHORE - The European Union has expressed concerns over “systematic deficiency” in PIA aircraft maintenance following detection of 40 uncertified defects on PK-734 operated by A310 at Paris on 9 Aug 2011 and has termed CAA regulatory controls as “unreliable”. European ...

KARACHI  - The second batch of two modified P3C aircraft have been inducted into Pakistan Navy fleet at Naval Aviation Base in Karachi after being modified with latest avionics sensors from the US under Foreign Military Funding programme. According to official sources‚ Pakistan Navy will ...

KARACHI - The second batch of two modified P3C aircraft were inducted into Pakistan Navy fleet at Naval Aviation Base in Karachi on Tuesday. The aircraft modified with latest avionics/sensors are part of the US assistance being provided to Pakistan Navy under FMF (Foreign Military Funding) ...

KARACHI - PIA and Airbus signed an agreement for transfer of ownership of six A310 aircraft, which were acquired by the airline on lease in year 2004.Transfer of ownership of the six aircraft to the national flag carrier is another step forward in implementing the Business Plan under vision 2020 ...

KARACHI (NNI) Ten aircraft belong to the National Flag Carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have been grounded due to a lack of supply of equipment, a PIA spokesman stated on Sunday. The spokesman said that PIAs name is being maligned on the basis of some agenda against the national ...

LAHORE - PIAs plan to lease 40 new aircraft within next six years does not sound a financially viable option given its bleak financial health verified from unaudited Half Yearly Report (Jan-June 30, 2011), which was released on September 24, 2011, sources in the airline said. According to details, ...

HONG KONG (Agencies) - A top Chinese military official has confirmed that Beijing is building an aircraft carrier, marking the first acknowledgement of the ships existence from Chinas secretive armed forces. In an exclusive interview published Tuesday, the Hong Kong Commercial Daily quoted Chen ...

KARACHI A technician of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) died accidentally while another was wounded in a firing incident in the premises of the PAF Base Masroor within the limits of Maripur police station. PAF spokesman Muhammad Nadeem Khan said that a person probably a technician, died while another ...

FARNBORUOGH (Agencies) Indian Navys new long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft P-81 will come armed with new generation American AN/APY-10 radars, giving it the capability to provide ultra-high resolutions of targets overseas and land, reported Zee News on Monday. The new radars made by US ...

KARACHI - The induction ceremony of two modified P3C Orion aircraft acquired from the United States was held at the Pakistan Navy Base Mehran here on Tuesday. Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Noman Bashir, was the chief guest at the simple but impressive ceremony. US Brig. Gen. Mike Nagata of the ...

KARACHI (PR) - The PIA carries out major maintenance and refurbishing of its existing fleet every five years. Spokesman said that new livery design has been approved by PIA Board of Directors under which 39 aircrafts of the fleet are being decorated with the National Flag and Pakistan will be ...

LAHORE - The PIA promotion board that is mulling the promotions of aircraft engineers is ignoring their on-hand working experience besides violating the tailoring criteria set for them, said an aircraft engineer seeking anonymity on Saturday. This is also the contempt of CAA/EASA /FAA rules, he ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has successfully tested a radar-evading aircraft, a commander said on Sunday, in the countrys latest announcement of technological advances as it marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The semi-official Fars News Agency, citing senior air force official Aziz ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday received first of its four Saab-2000 Airborne Early Warning and Control aircrafts from Sweden. According to PAF sources, the aircraft landed at one of the PAFs main operating bases, marking achievement of a major milestone in the overall modernisation ...

DUBAI (AFP) - An outline contract agreed on Monday for the supply of 10 Airbus A320 aircraft to Yemens national carrier is among the few highlights of this years Dubai Airshow, noticeable for its lack of big deals. The organisers hopes of beating the 155.5 billion dollars in orders chalked up at ...

LAHORE - The PIA is likely to complete a major deal for about 27 new single-aisle aircraft within a couple of weeks, once it receives best and final offers from Airbus and Boeing, reported a foreign newspaper. It reported that the deal, worth more than $2b could be one of the major narrow-body ...

KARACHI (PR) - Qatar Airways has continued its strong commitment towards maintaining an aggressive expansion strategy by signing a firm contract for 24 Airbus A320 Family aircraft. The agreement includes 20 A320s, as well as the firming up of four A321 aircraft announced at the Farnborough Air ...

Four people were killed on Monday in a car bomb blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the restive northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, security and military officials said. The attack risks further undermining stability in the troubled country and efforts to reconcile rival ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Nearly 27,000 members of Boeing's largest labor union are to go on strike after last-ditch contract talks failed on Friday, the US aviation giant and labor unions said. A statement from Boeing said mediated talks between the firm and the International Association of ...