China’s aviation transport has achieved rapid development in recent years. To meet the demand of domestic market and corporate development, as well as to coordinate domestic aircraft production, relevant companies continues to enhance their capacities, optimize fleet structure and purchase package Airbus aircrafts.

Translated by DAI Yue

It is the sixth Airbus full flight simulator in Hua-Ou.

“After entering into service this simulator will train more domestic and international pilots with high quality, meanwhile contribute more to guarantee flight safety of China’s civil aviation. I hope Hua-Ou will operate well with scientific management, to provide customers with best services and high quality training and to bring more social and economic benefits to CAS and Airbus. CAS will support the business development of Hua-Ou as usual, and I also hope Hua-Ou will contribute to Aircraft Support Services of CAS!” said Mr. YANG Xiaoming.

Mr. ZHANG Yu, Deputy Director of Air Transport Division, Department of Flight Standards of CAAC, issuing the simulator certificate to Mr. Herbert DEISS, the General Manager of Hua-Ou.

This A320 full flight simulator is the fourth Airbus A320 simulator in China, which can support A320neo, and is ready for the new UPRT (Upset Recovery Training). It can deliver 6,000 hours a year for both pilot and maintenance engineer training.

Interior of the full flight simulator which can support the A320neo flight training.

Hua-Ou is committed to providing aircraft operators with Airbus standard training courses and customized course for flight crew, maintenance engineers, performance personnel as well as cabin crew. Since the opening in 1997, over 38,000 aviation professionals coming from more than 50 airlines worldwide have been trained, most of which are pilots, maintenance engineers and cabin attendants. Among them, many people are in important positions of domestic civil aviation, contributing a lot to the safe and normal operation of China’s civil aviation. Hua-Ou plays a positive role in China’s civil aviation development. As a key part of Airbus global training and support network, the professional and experienced service in Hua-Ou is widely recognized by Airbus aircraft operators in China.

Wrote by： Zhijie Song， Translated by： Xingxing Xie

Mr. WANG Zhiqing, the deputy director of CAAC, Ms. QI Feng, the deputy director of Radio Management Bureau of MIIT, Mr. YANG Xiaoming, general manager of CAS, and Mr.LI Zhongbao, the board chairman of CSCC delivered speeches in the Forum respectively.

There were some of domestic and foreign stakeholders in the supply chain delivered speeches in the Forum, including China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Qingdao Airlines, Donghai Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, China Satellite Communications, Blue Focus Connectivity, Boeing, Airbus, Lufthansa Technik, FTS Technology etc. With the theme of ‘New Opportunities under In-flight Connectivity between Sky and Ground’, the experts from Air China, Xiamen Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Spring Airlines, Ping An Technology, and FTS Technology deeply discussed the business model, operation, construction, and investment of the In-flight Connectivity during the seminar. During the forum, attendees took the “Satellite Internet simulation flight” and truly experienced the open space interconnection system based on the Ka satellite of Zhong Xing 16.

This year’s forum was not only an industry event of ‘Civil Aviation + Internet’ which aroused jointly discussion among civil aviation related corporations, but also the promotion for new generation of China in-flight Internet. The development of Internet Technology will promote the economy. The application of big data, safety management level and quality of civil aviation will be improved via the In-flight Connectivity between sky and ground, and thereby comply with the state strategy of powerful civil aviation. The fast application of In-flight Connectivity will push the development of ‘Made in China’, domestic satellites, and airborne equipments.

Wrote by： Qingqing Yu， Translated by： Qingqing Yu

According to the agreement, CASC has been ized by Honeywell to be the distributor in China for providing spares support from the whole product line and aviation materials solutions such as fleet campaign and retrofit to airlines. Moreover, both parties will have strategic cooperation in terms of fleet campaign and retrofit, customer service, data connectivity, surplus materials, technique support and training etc. The signing of the agreement marks a new milestone for cooperation between both parties. According to that, both parties will discuss and explore more cooperative opportunities in the field of aviation supplies. With the developing tendency of the times, both parties will jointly innovate and build an supporting system of aviation materials that is cost-effective, efficient, progressive, and customer-oriented.

This program is also a significant achievement in the recent years by actively constructing a pooling platform throughout the whole industry under the support of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). As the world’s leading aviation technology corporation, Honeywell’s the active support for CASC’s aviation material pooling strategy has laid a solid foundation for both parties to build a strategic partnership in the future.

Wrote by： Ziye Zhu， Translated by： Qingqing Yu

Mr. JIA Baojun, the board chairman of CAS and Fabrice Brégier, COO and President Commercial Aircraft of Airbus signed the memo on behalf of both sides.

According to the agreement, both parties granted comprehensive cooperation in after-sale service, including material services, digitalization and Big Data, training in flight operation and navigation, environmental friendly aviation etc.

Jia said, “CAS puts a high value on the cooperation and exchange with Airbus. We wish to continue the fruitful cooperation between the parties to strengthen our deep cooperation, and work together to contribute to the sustainable and health development of China Civil Aviation.

François Mery, COO of Airbus China Commercial Aircraft said, “Airbus is not only present in China to sale aircraft , but also willing to cooperate with CAS to provide customized service for the airlines .

From the aircraft delivery to flight operation, the complete series of supporting service would be provided.

I am honored to eyewitness that our collaboration reach a new height.

This agreement will help Airbus to provide quality training and support services to our Chinese customer in a more timely and efficient way.