Staff reporter

Airports across Asia are bursting at the seams, straining to handle the rapidly growing number of passengers flying in and out aboard an ever-increasing numbers of jets joining the region’s airline fleets. While billions of dollars are being spent on infrastructure improvements, is it enough to solve a looming congestion crisis? The name Chongqing is

Airbus’s new focus on China Does he know something we don’t? Eric Chen, President and Chief Executive of Airbus Commercial Aircraft China came out with what can only be described as a pretty gutsy forecast during a press briefing in Beijing late September. Gutsy because it concerned potential orders for the European planemakers big A380

Regional airports need dedicated federal funding Australia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Our dependence on air transport to link our cities and regions with each other and the rest of the world means aviation is an industry of national strategic importance to Australia. Aviation is a critical part of

Thirty years of the Airbus A320 When the Airbus A320 first took flight in 1987, how many observers realised they were watching the first flight of one of the most successful aircraft of all time? Thirty years later, nearly eleven thousand A320 family aircraft in four variants have been produced on four assembly lines in

Final EC135 training helicopter delivered to Australia The final Airbus Helicopters EC135 T2+ training helicopter for the Helicopter Aircrew Training System project has arrived in Australia. This last aircraft delivery in late August marked the completion of the training fleet for the project that will provide ab initio training to Royal Australian Navy and Australian

News from across Australian aviation LATAM Airlines says its new Melbourne-Santiago nonstop service will offer travellers from this part of the world more convenient connections to South America and beyond. The three-times-a-week offering kicked off on October 6, when LA805, operated by Boeing 787-9 CC-BGN, touched down at Tullamarine a little after 1830, following a