Year: 2018

Cathay Pacific has reported a narrowing first half loss as higher fuel prices offset gains made from its transformation program and a pickup in passenger and cargo demand.

Coming to aviation later in life Some people are born to aviation and some come to flying later in life, choosing to move on from earlier career choices. One is Charmaine Lett, 43, an indigenous woman of the Noongar Clan of Western Australia, now training to be a commercial pilot. This content is available exclusively

Air NZ cops political flak for plant-based burger Passengers in Business Premier aboard Air New Zealand’s NZ1 and NZ5 flights to Los Angeles will be chowing down on Impossible Burgers, featuring new engineered plant-based synthetic meat from a US-based startup — a first for an airline. “Impossible Burger’s magic ingredient is an iron-containing molecule called

China’s demand that airlines refer to Taiwan as part of China What’s in a name? An awful lot, according to the powers that be in Beijing. China’s ongoing insistence that Taiwan is part of its bamboo empire and integral to its sovereign territory has been unchanged since Chiang Kai-shek led his defeated Republic of China

On reg reform, CASA’s intent is admirable, but the outcome is looking troubled The Jeckle-Hyde nature of CASA with internal struggles between the reformers and others continues and is now to be played out in the slow-moving train wreck that is regulatory reform. There are bright spots – AVMED reform, recognition of industry programs to

What future for Airbus’s metal widebody twin? Designed through the early 1980s and revealed in 1986 alongside its sister, the A340, Airbus’ enduring A330 widebody twinjet was never supposed to be the linchpin of the Airbus A330/340 family. Created as a largely regional, high-capacity airliner to replace the A300 (and to an extent the A310)