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Qantas has named Tino La Spina as the new head of its international business and Vanessa Hudson as the airline’s new chief financial officer.

Airbus has reaffirmed its commercial aircraft delivery targets for calendar 2019 amid what chief executive Guillaume Faury says is a robust market.

Some aircraft don’t merely carve a niche for themselves, they create a legacy. This comes about through the successful mating of a quality airframe and powerplant, through sound design philosophy and through longevity. The King Air range is very much one such aircraft with more than 7,300 of its many variants taking to the skies over more than 50 years.

Virgin Australia says it has delayed the arrival of its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft by 20 months to July 2021 as part of a restructured order book for the type.

Airbus says an ACJ319neo has set a new Airbus record after operating a flight lasting more than 16 hours as part of the aircraft’s flight test program.

American Airlines chief executive Doug Parker says he expects to hear some “good news” soon about the fate of the proposed joint-venture with Qantas.