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Stefan Pichler has taken up his role as CEO of Fiji Airways, taking leadership of the airline as it completes its re-positioning and wrestles with financial challenge. Pichler, who was previously head of Jazeera Airways where he turned that company around to make it one of the industry’s most profitable carriers, said: “The combination of

Qantas has announced the appointment of two new directors and the retirement of non-executive director Patricia Cross. Maxine Brenner and Jacqueline Hey will each fill casual non-executive director vacancies on the Qantas board with immediate effect. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of

Tom Enders, CEO of EADS, will deliver this year’s Sir Reginald Ansett Memorial Lecture in Canberra in October. Enders, who has been closely associated with the drive for continuous innovation in the European aerospace conglomerate that includes Airbus, will speak in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, on the evening of October 15. This

Liberal Senator for South Australia David Fawcett has condemned the federal minister responsible for aviation for “failing to respond to the damning findings of the Senate Inquiry into the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) which was released on 23 May 2013.” “Even the announcement of an external review of the ATSB by the Canadian Transportation