Year: 2018

Understanding passenger rights The debate about passenger’s rights has reached almost hysterical levels in the United States with extreme groups making seemingly endless claims about the mistreatment of, and ripping off, of passengers. And while the graphic vision of a 69-year-old doctor being dragged screaming from a United Express plane in Chicago last year is

New Australian airport spaces combine engineering, brand and design Modern airports are incredible works of architecture, whether a colossal shining new-build facility like Beijing’s new airport in Daxing to the south of the city, or any number of older airports consisting of a warren of buildings – connected or not – that have felt the

The amazing treasure trove that was the Sid Marshall collection The Oscar was on show with several other aircraft including Sid’s Spitfire. It is now on display with the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, Seattle, Washington. eric allen If you visited Bankstown Airport in the era of the post-World War 2 general aviation boom

Combat power through organisation, part IV The RAAF formalised the organisation of its operational units into Force Element Groups (FEGs) on June 1 1988. The new FEGs were Tactical Fighter Group (TFG), which included the supporting air direction units of the Air Defence Ground Environment (ADGE), Strike Reconnaissance Group (SRG); Maritime Patrol Group (MPG); Air

And what 2018 holds for pilot recruiting Seventeen years ago I was asked by his girlfriend to assist a pilot with his preparation for a Cathay Pacific interview. “He is 23 years old and literally cannot string a sentence together,” she approached me saying. That was the beginning of Pinstripe Solutions – Interview Coaching. The

Darwin has welcomed Australia’s first scheduled Boeing 737 MAX passenger flight, with Silkair’s MI801 touching down in the Northern Territory capital a few minutes before 1500 local time on Sunday. Silkair’s inaugural MAX service, operated by 9V-MBC, covered the 1,804nm journey between Singapore and Darwin in a little over four and a half hours. This