Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas deploys the A380 to Dallas-Fort Worth Qantas to replace 747-400ERs with the A380 on its longest haul Qantas will operate the Airbus A380 on its services between Sydney and Dallas- Fort Worth (DFW) from September 29 this year, as part of network changes that include reducing Sydney-Hong Kong A380 services and retiming Melbourne-Dubai-London flights.

F-35 sets in train future RAAF air combat force structure It is the decision that has been made before. There was the Howard government’s 2002 decision to join the Joint Strike Fighter program. Then there was the Rudd government’s 2009 approval for a first batch of 14 jets. This content is available exclusively to Australian

Joyce outlines Qantas job cuts and fleet plans Bert Foster says: The wages for a lot of staff are not “insanely high” except for some of the executives who rake in more than many airline CEOs in the world and in some cases more than the totals of some of the Asian counterparts combined. Pilots

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10 years ago Defence Minister Robert Hill on May 11 announced the government has decided to exercise the options held for two additional Boeing Wedgetail aircraft for the RAAF at a cost of A$326 million, taking the fleet to six. The RAAF’s first Wedgetail, 737‑7ES N378BC/A30-001, had its maiden flight from Boeing Field, Seattle on

Quite a few interesting aircraft are shown in the New Allocations this issue. A new Challenger, BLM, and Global Express, IQR, for Execujet the former having seen service in the US and Argentina, and the latter previously operated in South Africa, the US and Qatar. A Beaver, DHQ, from Canada originally built for the US