Year: 2015

The RNZAF’s future airlift options Among the many capabilities discussed in New Zealand’s Defence White Paper 2010 is the NZDF’s future airlift requirement – currently fulfilled by two converted Boeing 757s and an ageing fleet of five Lockheed C-130Hs – the oldest of which have now been in service for half a century. The White

Airbus Helicopters’ new-generation seven-tonne class H175 is selling well after entering service in December last year. But the European manufacturer has even higher hopes for its twin, a Chinese-built version currently heading towards certification in Tianjin, the port city south-east of Beijing. TOM BALLANTYNE reports. Laurence Barron, China chairman of European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, is

Qantas will further reduce turnaround times on domestic flights from July as part of efforts to improve fleet utilisation and lower unit costs. A slide presentation accompanying Qantas’s investor day held on Tuesday showed the airline is reducing turn times – how long an aircraft spends on the ground between flights – for domestic Boeing

Two KC-30A crews have completed the first boom contact by the aircraft in RAAF service. The first KC-30’s crew deployed the 17-metre-long Aerial Refuelling Boom System (ARBS) to make 14 successful contacts with the refuelling receptacle of a second KC-30 during a three-hour flight out of RAAF Base Amberley southwest of Brisbane on May 13. This content

Air New Zealand is adding extra flights to Perth to support the Kiwi flag carrier’s services to the Americas. The new three times a week Perth-Auckland offering, which starts on December 11 2015 and runs until May 1 2016, will be flown with Boeing 767-300 aircraft and adds to an existing daily 787-9 service on the route,

Ticket prices for domestic travel have risen sharply in May both at the pointy end of the aircraft and in the main cabin, figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show. The most pronounced jump was in the index measuring business class fares, which rose to 91.2 index points in May, compared