Chris Frame

The Australian Aviation feature on Virgin Australia Regional Airlines training captain Peter Phillips is from the December 2018 magazine edition.

Qantas is instantly recognised around the world for its red flying kangaroo. However, each year the airline turns pink in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Bringing an aircraft ‘home’ to Australia is the culmination of not just its construction, but a milestone for Qantas’s chief technical pilot, Alex Passerini.

Anticipating the global pilot shortage, Virgin Australia launched its own pilot cadetship program in 2012. One cadet guides us through his story.

Melbourne Tullamarine is celebrating the best in customer service among the 20,000 people who work at the airport with its annual airport excellence awards.

A new flying kangaroo has taken to the skies with Qantas-branded Airbus A320s commencing services in Western Australia in April. Sourced from fellow Qantas Group subsidiary Jetstar, the aircraft are flown by Network Aviation under the QantasLink brand. The two aircraft retain their Jetstar 180-seat all-economy cabin interiors, and have replaced two-class Qantas Boeing 737‑800s