Marc Joel Atrero

Evaluating the Qantas A380 interior Years of marketing hype from Airbus, the double beds on Singapore Airlines’s A380 and Emirates’s hugely successful A380 business class bar sharpened the senses of the media and guests for the first inspection of the finished Qantas A380 product. When the A380 first appeared in January 2005 at the ‘A380

Accepting & delivering the first Qantas A380 They throw in a free load of fuel when you buy an Airbus A380. But when the largest aircraft in commercial aviation costs north of $300 million each, that’s probably the least that manufacturer Airbus could do. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become

The Qantas A380 era begins The Qantas A380 era began when the first of its double-decker giants, VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton, touched down at Sydney Airport at 9am on September 21. That historic landing (pictured above) marked the end of an eight year wait for the most anticipated commercial aircraft in decades. The A380 is the

CEO Australian Aerospace “I have the ambition to make Australian Aerospace an iconic company in the Australian landscape. And I believe that Australian Aerospace has the potential of doing that.” The strategic importance of Eurocopter subsidiary Australian Aerospace to its parent European aerospace giant EADS was starkly illustrated by last year’s appointment of Dr Jens

With Lockheed Martin’s appeal against Northrop Grumman winning the US Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program dismissed, NG is stepping up its efforts to re-state its case for the RQ-4N Global Hawk for the RAAF. The US Navy’s RQ-4N is Northrop Grumman’s contender for or the ADF’s Project Air 7000 Phase 1 to replace

General Flying Services goes to Oxford Melbourne based General Flying Services (GFS) looks set to enter a new era with the flying school announcing on September 10 that it had been acquired by UK based Oxford Aviation Academy. The deal, which was backed by Oxford Aviation Academy’s (OAA) investor STAR Capital partners, will see GFS