Bloomberg China’s first airliner designed to compete with Airbus and Boeing is off to a slow start. After the fanfare surrounding the C919’s maiden flight in May, the single-aisle plane didn’t fly again for four months and the two test aircraft have only made about two dozen flights since, well below the normal schedule for a new commercial jet. The ...

Bloomberg HondaJet, the business aircraft developed by Honda Motor Co., sees big prospects in China and Southeast Asia as wealthy individuals seek out the lightweight plane as an efficiency tool. There’s a “huge potential,” Honda Aircraft Co. Chief Executive Officer Michimasa Fujino said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin at the Singapore Airshow. “I’m looking at the next ...

Bloomberg AerCap Holdings NV, the aircraft-leasing company, is willing to work with Hainan Airlines Holding Co. given its viable business model even as its parent HNA Group Co. comes under intense pressure to repay mounting debts. “We’re working very closely with the Hainan group of course at the moment,” AerCap Chief Executive Officer Aengus Kelly said in an interview with ...