John Walton

When Abu Dhabi International Airport’s new midfield terminal building opens in the third quarter of 2017, it will add two hundred per cent extra capacity to the airport’s current limits. The new terminal will serve as the home Etihad Airways, which will relocate to its 65 gates along with most of its partners – likely

Airbus seems to think it has the replacement for the Boeing 757-200’s international missions with the snappily-monikered A321neoLR. The -LR version is a high gross weight version of the stretched A320 Family narrowbody, US-based Leeham News reports, quoting Airbus EVP of sales and marketing Kiran Rao. Three extra fuel tanks bring the A321neoLR’s range up to 3,900nm (7,223km),

Qantas’s new Business Suite is set to take to the skies “from later this year” aboard Airbus A330-200 aircraft serving domestic transcontinental routes. Asia services will see the new Thompson Vantage XL seat next year as refitted aircraft return to the 28-strong fleet from Qantas’s Brisbane MRO facility. The refit process begins this November and