Australian Aviation

Aviation arrivals and departures across the region While your columnist is on leave in the US, this issue of Traffic details our annual summary of aircraft deliveries and disposals in our region for the six-month halves of the previous financial year. Jet airliner deliveries July-December 2015 For the six months to December 2015 a total

Adelaide-based Aerotech Australasia is a growing family affair Adelaide-based aviation company Aerotech Australasia, with its operations firmly established in bushfire fighting and agricultural work, is looking to tourism as a new business arm. This follows last year’s takeover of another South Australian aviation firm, Australian Helicopters Charter, which delivered a fleet of four rotary-wing aircraft

LATAM spreads its wings over the whole of South America The 2012 takeover of Brazilian national carrier TAM by LAN, the Chilean airline with subsidiaries in Peru, Argentina, Columbia and Ecuador, was one of the most significant events in the Latin American market in decades, affecting not only travellers and airlines in that region but

The battlelines are drawn at Perth Airport For nearly a decade following the Ansett collapse, Qantas was unchallenged as the business traveller’s airline of choice across the country. While the no-frills Virgin Blue was growing its presence in the leisure market, it remained unable to compete with its larger adversary for the lucrative business market.

Boeing’s Middle of the Market quandary Has the unthinkable happened and Boeing lost the ‘Right Stuff’? Could Airbus, clear leader in the so-called Middle of the Market (MOM) segment, launch a replacement for a market it already dominates as Boeing dithers? These are the questions surrounding commercial aviation’s hottest topic coming out of the 2016

Bell Helicopter pitches its Vipers and Venoms as a Tiger ARH replacement A surprising inclusion in February’s Defence White Paper and its accompanying Integrated Investment Program (IIP) were details of the planned early retirement and replacement of Army’s Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) from the mid-2020s resulting from its challenging and troubled introduction into service.