Marc Joel Atrero

After weeks of speculation, Boeing announced on April 8 that there would be a further six month delay to its 787 program. The new delay now means that power-on for the aircraft was scheduled for June, followed by a first flight in the last quarter of this year. This content is available exclusively to Australian

Commercial Airbus Reviews A380 Deliveries Speculation is Mounting That There Could Be Delays in the Delivery of A380s After Airbus Said That It Was Reviewing Its Delivery Program. Airbus Ceo Tom Enders Announced That the Manufacturer Was “currently Conducting a Major Review” of the A380 Program, but Also Said That It Was “standard Practice” at

The federal minister responsible for aviation, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Anthony Albanese, has launched the aviation policy review process that arguably this industry had to have. This magazine has covered many of the constraints and issues facing aviation in Australia, from congestion at Sydney Airport to environmental concerns, to skill

KC-30 While the RAAF’s 33SQN presses ahead towards the June 30 cessation of 707 operations, work on the unit’s first Airbus A330 based KC-30 continues apace at EADS’s Getafe facility, just south of the Spanish capital of Madrid. After completing a series of proximity trials with EADS’s A310 testbed and Portuguese F-16 and Spanish EF-18

As Contrails goes to press, the fate of Alitalia – perhaps the last of the European legacy airlines to face reality – is far from clear. The problem for Alitalia is that while it is now facing reality, its unions, the Italian government and possibly everyone else in Italy will not accept it. This content

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