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Last hurrah for Skeletor The drawdown of the Royal Australian Navy S-70B-2 Seahawk fleet continues with Seahawk N24‑011 Skeletor completing its last operational flight on March 14 while embarked on HMAS Arunta in the Middle East. After logging around 6,200 flying hours across 28 years, the Navy took the opportunity to retire Skeletor, named for

Qantas fleshes out post-transformation focus on costs Qantas is aiming for cost savings of $400 million a year for the three years to 2019/20 as the Boeing 787-9 replaces older 747-400s and the use of new technology and innovation supports a more efficient operation both on the ground and in the air. The airline group

RAAF C-17 has landed at the Taji Military Complex in Iraq for the first time, with the heavylift aircraft landing there on April 23 during the official visit of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin to Australian service peronnel in Iraq. “We had not planned to use

The government gets back into the airports business So the federal government is to go ahead and build Western Sydney Airport, with the bulldozers beginning work at the Badgerys Creek site barely 12 months from now in the second half of next year. That feels quite soon, but of course Badgerys Creek was first selected

While the helicopter industry has still a way to go before returning to the boom times of a decade ago, there are still some signs of growth Australia’s helicopter industry continues to fly through some rough air, but that turbulence is showing some signs of abating, suggesting a flightpath through the gloom that has challenged

The remarkable resilience of Alan Joyce The new “International Transit Lounge” will feature showers, a wellness suit and an outdoor patio, and will open ahead of London flights commencing next March. qantas Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce’s reaction to a now famous pie-throwing incident at a business breakfast in Perth on May 9 highlights the