Year: 2015

Qantas is expecting to deliver a bumper 2015/16 first half profit as the airline group benefits from lower fuel prices and its cost-cutting initiatives amid modest capacity growth in both the domestic and international market and a mixed Australian economy. The positive outlook statement was provided to shareholders by Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce at

When regulation is divorced from its practical implications Operators and pilots often get criticised for drifting away from the safety of the mission, lured by money, ego or hazardous attitudes. But what happens when the regulator drifts away from recognising that missions conducted safely for years should not be crippled by regulation? Of course we

No aircraft, no staff and no licence to fly. The wind-up of Jetstar Hong Kong is all but complete. The failed venture has sold all its Airbus A320s and made most of its staff redundant after the three major shareholders cut off any further funding of the proposed airline in response to the Hong Kong

Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) chairman Jim Davis says a new Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) board and new director of aviation safety (DAS) are rebuilding the relationship with industry that was damaged over the previous six years. Davis, who is also a director at Regional Express, says recent new CASA directors meant the

Virgin Australia’s regional arm is disposing of its eight Fokker 50s and adding four Fokker 100s and an Airbus A320 as part of fleet and operational changes in Western Australia. The 46-seat Fokker 50s have been used to serve West Australian government regulated routes to Albany, Esperance and Ravensthorpe in the state’s south west, as

Work starts on new NSW Ambulance Bankstown Airport helibase The start of construction work on NSW Ambulance’s new helicopter retrieval and training base at Bankstown Airport was marked with an official sod turning ceremony on September 2. Part of the NSW government’s new $151. 2 million helicopter retrieval network announced last December, the Toll Group