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Tigerair Australia to grow internationally as a “narrowbody operation” Appoints new chief pilot and director of flight operations Virgin Australia is sticking with the Tigerair Australia brand and plans to expand the low-cost carrier’s (LCC) footprint internationally with destinations in narrowbody range over the next three years. Tigerair began international operations in March, with flights

Just how far will Qantas go? There’s a nice symmetry that in the issue we explore Qantas’s “game-changing” announcement it will fly nonstop from Perth to London with the Boeing 787-9 from March 2018 that we also look at how its very first Boeing 747-400, which on its delivery flight to Australia in August 1989

Jessta says: Great if you can afford the pointy end or even possibly premium economy, but 3-3-3 in the 787 is shocking even on shorter longhaul routes, never lone 17 hours. If they were really hoping to make this work then it would be a Business / Premium Economy fit out only for this flight

Focus and perspective for busy times The last 12 months have seen the sort of agricultural seasons that rarely come along. Widespread continuous rainfall, huge plantings of crops and a very full soil moisture profile have led to one of the longest and busiest periods ag operators have seen for some time. As a result,

Will 2.54cm more legroom make up for Qantas’s narrow 787 economy? For the world’s longest flight between Perth and London, Qantas’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner economy seat brings mixed news for passengers. Qantas’s seat designers have done the very best possible given the restrictions of the 3-3-3 configuration the airline chose for its 787, with an

Boeing developing augmented and virtual reality solutions for pilot training – in Australia The potential of virtual reality and augmented reality in pilot training is being explored in Brisbane by Boeing Research & Technology – Australia (BR&T), the aerospace giant’s advanced research and development unit. Its general manager Michael Edwards says these new training techniques