Staff reporter

It’s the little airline with a big heart. In the South Pacific, where history suggests financial success for carriers is hard to come by, Fiji Airways has broken the mold with four years of consecutive record profits. And the future is looking just as sunny. When it comes to the scattered, sparsely populated islands of

News briefs from across aviation QANTAS GROUP NEWS Operated by 787-10 9V-SCA, SQ223 touched down at Perth a little after 1430 local time, at the end of its five-hour journey from Singapore. The 787-10 is now being used on one of SIA’s four daily flights between Perth and Singapore. dylan thomas Qantas says it expected

Diversity the key for a leaner CHC Karl Fessenden is big on both consistency and agility. Consistency in providing a service with the same quality in Caracas as his company delivers in Karratha, and agility in responding to challenges as diverse as a one-off emergency medical retrieval to the day-by-day servicing of the oil and

The public backlash against Korean Air Comic opera comes to mind. Or perhaps farce would be a better description. Some Koreans – more than 85,000 of them – last month signed a petition demanding the government order Korean Air (KAL) to stop calling itself Korean Air. Admittedly 85,000 is but a small proportion of the

Australia’s helicopter industry is proving resilient in tough times You could be excused for believing Peter Crook has been there, done that, and seen that. A flyer since 1963, Vietnam veteran, helicopter and fixed wing business owner, helicopter chief pilot, former Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Bell, and more recently boss of his

An $8 outback NSW adventure In the mid-1960s Ansett-owned Airlines of NSW would offer ‘mystery flights’ as a means of filling otherwise empty seats and introducing the public to the benefits of air travel. The arrangement was simple, you made a booking and arrived at Mascot on the appointed day to be offered a return