Year: 2018

The second member of the A330neo family has emerged from the paintshop for the first time at Airbus’s Toulouse headquarters, paving the way for test flights to begin by the middle of 2018. Airbus released pictures of the first A330-800neo, MSN1888, on Monday (European time), which show the aircraft painted in Airbus livery and the

Eight Qantas Airbus A380s will be repainted in the airline’s new livery by Emirates Engineering. Beginning in March 2018 the aircraft will be stripped and repainted at the Emirates Aircraft Appearance Centre in Dubai, which Emirates says is the largest aircraft painting facility in the world owned by an airline. In 2017 that facility repainted

AirAsia X Malaysia is set to be the first international airline to service Avalon Airport once it moves its double-daily Kuala Lumpur flights from Melbourne Tullamarine airport there later this year. No date has been publicly announced for the move to Avalon, with the airport requiring immigration and quarantine facilities to be put in place

Australia’s Matt Hall has finished a credible fifth in the season opening event of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi, UAE, his best finish in the region since a second place in 2015. Today’s race was won by America’s Mike Goulian, who climbed to the top step of the podium for

Virgin Australia has flown its last commercial flight with the Embraer E-Jet, after E190 VH-ZPH operated flight  VA1105 from Newcastle to Brisbane on Saturday. Wet and sombre skies greeted the E190 in Brisbane, where it touched down at 12:51 local time following a one hour and eight minute flight from Newcastle, flight tracking website Flightaware

It seems amiss to bill Saturday’s Red Bull Air Race main event as a tantalising affair for Australia’s Matt Hall following a costly qualifying error, but with the first race day of 2018 looming under the desert sun of Abu Dhabi, that is exactly the case. The former RAAF pilot, who hails from Newcastle, NSW,