Australian Aviation

The battle to provide Australia with an armed unmanned aircraft heats up as the MQ-9 Reaper and Heron TP face off at Avalon. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has formally launched its Team Reaper Australia solution for the AIR 7003 armed unmanned aircraft project with teammates Cobham, CAE Australia, Raytheon Australia and Flight Data Systems.

Business jets makers eyeing government VIP fleet opportunity In addition to wooing high net worth individuals and large corporations on the benefits of having their own aircraft to go where they want when they want, business jet manufacturers are closely watching what the federal government intends to do with its VIP fleet. Currently, the Royal

The big planemakers acknowledge that sometime in the future they will face competition from commercial jets produced in China and Japan. But the pretenders, dogged by delays and production issues, seem to be doing their best to ensure it won’t be any time soon. If you want to play with the big boys, you have

Korean low-cost airline traffic is booming If you’ve never heard of Fly Yangyang don’t lose any sleep over it. This prospective South Korean budget carrier won’t be flying anytime soon, since the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in late February refused to issue it with an operating licence due to “the risk of

Air fares have never been cheaper thanks to airline competition and the industry’s relentless drive to cut costs If one was to believe everything being said about airlines, their fees and polices by consumer groups across the globe passengers would be forgiven for thinking they were being ripped off by greedy multinationals. The truth, in

Re-regulation would curb new investment in airport infrastructure Since 2002 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been responsible for monitoring the quality, prices, costs and profits relating to the provision of aeronautical and car parking services at our four largest international airports – Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The ACCC’s price monitoring role came