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Vietnam Airlines has become the the second airline to take delivery of the Airbus A350. The Skyteam member accepted its first A350-900 at the official handover ceremony at Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse, France, on Tuesday morning (European time). This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the

Qantas says its international operations across both its Qantas and Jetstar flying brands suffered a drop in yields during what the airline group describes as the seasonally weaker month of May. “Group international yields in May were lower compared to the prior corresponding period, offset by both Qantas International and Jetstar International achieving higher load

Virgin Australia chief financial officer Sankar Narayan is moving on four years in the role. Narayan, who was appointed Virgin chief financial officer in January 2011 and previously worked at Fairfax Media and Malaysia-based Astro All Asia, will step down in late September 2015 to take up a role in a different industry, the airline said

Another Qantas 747-400 has flown off into retirement with the departure of VH-OJI from Sydney bound for Honolulu and Mojave, California, where it faces an uncertain future in storage. Operating as QF6021 VH-OJI took off from Sydney at – appropriately enough – 7:47am on Saturday, with flight tracking website flightaware.com showing it arriving in Honolulu 8