Staff reporter

AirAsia sets its sights ever higher Tony Fernandes, boss of Malaysia’s AirAsia budget group, isn’t one to miss out on popping up with his trademark red cap at big occasions around the world and when leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) held their annual talkfest in Sydney recently, there he was.

Indigenous-painted Qantas 787 ‘Yam Dreaming’ arrives in Alice Springs Clear skies and Australia’s rugged outback greeted the arrival of Qantas’s fourth Boeing 787- 9, which features a special Indigenous livery inspired by the ‘Yam Dreaming’ artwork of artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The aircraft, VH-ZND, departed Boeing’s final assembly line at Everett a little after 2100

The US Navy commits to the Super Hornet Block III, will the RAAF follow? Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will be able to fly further, fly for longer, see more clearly and process more information thanks to a planned service life extension program plus a series of capability upgrades that will bring the jet to a

New security screening requirements would be hugely damaging The RAAA understands that the government is now seriously considering introducing enhanced screening procedures for all passengers and their baggage at regional, rural and remote airports. This is in spite of the excellent intelligence-driven and risk-based approach applied to regional airport security over the past years. This

Age and becoming a (commercial) pilot Recently, a budding pilot asked me if 50 was too old to start a flying career. Sounds like a simple question, I mulled it over for a while and soon came to the realisation that it was in fact, not simple at all. I am a fully-blown card-carrying member

Surviving high-intensity warfare It was the 19th century British prime minister Lord Palmerston who famously remarked that in international relations there are “no eternal allies … only interests”. Palmerston’s hard-headed world view has particular relevance for small and medium nations that find themselves drawn into high-intensity warfare. The October 1973 war in the Middle East