US aerospace giant Boeing conducted a final 787 Dreamliner test flight Friday to assess the proposed battery fix that it hopes will get the grounded jetliner back in the skies. "The purpose of the test is to demonstrate that the new system performs as intended during normal and non-normal flight conditions," said Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel. Boeing said the airplane took off and landed at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, home to the company's largest plane-building factory.

US aerospace giant Boeing said Friday it plans to conduct a final 787 Dreamliner test flight to assess its proposed battery fix later in the day. "The purpose of the test is to demonstrate that the new system performs as intended during normal and non-normal flight conditions," said Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel. Boeing said it had filed a flight plan for the 787 to take off and land at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, home to the company's largest plane-building factory.

Cambodia is expected to launch a new airline later this year after a deal was struck between one of the country's biggest tycoons and Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corporation. Kith Meng, chairman of Royal Group -- a hotel, media and telecoms empire -- inked the deal late on Tuesday with the Manila-based firm, which already owns a controlling stake in Philippine Airlines (PAL), according to a statement.

SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea's No. 2 flag carrier, will allow female flight attendants to wear trousers, officials said Tuesday, ending decades of its skirt-only policy that critics say is discriminatory. Some of the 3,400 female flight attendants have applied for the new trouser uniform in the first such move since Asiana's foundation in 1988, Asiana Airlines spokesman Na Chul-hee said.