Year: 2018

New hope or false dawn for the A380? Are we, finally, in the grips of a pilot shortage? Given that the federal government has just added pilots to its new skilled worker visa there’s some evidence that we are. I was surprised – although perhaps in this era of eternal outrage, I shouldn’t have been

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Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says his airline is in no hurry to place an order for new widebody aircraft, pointing to the relatively young age of its six Airbus A330-200s and five Boeing 777-300s. While the average age of its mainline fleet was 7.1 years at December 31 2017, up from 6.4 years

Virgin Australia has returned to profitability in the first half of 2017/18 amid an improved domestic market and a pickup in the resources sector. On revenues of $2.179 billion, Australia’s second largest airline group posted net profit after tax of $4.4 million for the six months to December 31 2017, compared with a loss of

Engine component failure has been identified as the most likely cause of the catastrophic engine failure and subsequent fire onboard an RAAF EA-18G Growler at Nellis AFB on January 28. The aircraft was taking off for a famil flight over the Nellis Test & Training Range in preparation for the commencement of Exercise Red Flag

Qantas says the future of its nonstop Sydney-Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) service is at risk should it not be able to form a deeper partnership with American Airlines. The somewhat doomsday scenario is part of Qantas and American’s fresh application to the United States Department of Transportation (DoT) for an expanded alliance with anti-trust immunity (ATI)