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The Australian Aviation Associations Forum (TAAAF) TAAAF is the umbrella organisation providing a forum for all of Australia’s aviation industry associations to meet regularly on an informal basis to identify and discuss common issues of an operational and regulatory nature. Almost every significant aviation-related association is a member and TAAAF functions on a non-partisan, apolitical

Qantas plans “game-changing” nonstop Perth-London 787-9 services in March 2018 Perth Airport and Qantas agreed in December to set up a western hub to support Boeing 787-9 non-stop services to London from March 2018 in a move that the airline hails as a “game-changer” The first nonstop service from Australia to London is expected to

Chief of Air Force hails the arrival of the first P-8A as representing a generational leap forward in capability in the maritime domain. The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon for the Royal Australian Air Force has arrived at its new home with 11 Squadron at RAAF Base Edinburgh north of Adelaide, heralding a “giant leap forward”

Great mates Qantas and American caught out on joint-venture knock-back Since lodging the application for an expanded alliance in June 2015, self-proclaimed “Great Mates” Qantas and American have been keen to talk up the benefits of a larger combined network and prospect of lower airfares for consumers. And throughout the past 18 months, executives from

No longer the jack of all trades and master of none The notion of an all-purpose “battleplane” has a long history. It was first raised in the 1920s by the great Italian air power theorist, Giulio Douhet, who envisaged a warplane suitable for “both combat and bombing”. Douhet’s idea has since been the subject of

OJA’s new beginning For those who witnessed the final moments of flight for QANTAS’s Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, few will forget the sight. The massive yet graceful ‘City of Canberra’ concluded its long career by approaching the shortest runway it had ever landed on after the shortest flight it had ever flown. People had packed the