Australian Aviation

Air New Zealand’s decision to look at dumping its stake in Virgin Australia may look like an aviation version of marital break-up but if their prime rival Qantas thinks it represents a serious rift between the two members of its major Australasian competition it should think again. Selling shares is a long way from abandoning

Rescuing  SriLankan from a “bottomless pit” The world’s worst managed airline? There would be a fair few candidates here and there around the globe but very rarely would their owners admit it. Not so with state-owned SriLankan Airlines. According to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Special Assignments, Dr Sarath Amunugama, speaking at a conference in Colombo

The RAAF and the age of air power When the RAAF’s first F-35As arrive in Australia in 2018 they will represent a profound capability and technology leap. A similar kind of step-change occurred between 1970 and 1973 when Australia leased 24 F-4E Phantoms, pending the arrival of the long-delayed F-111C. Many pilots, engineers and defence

New economy seatmakers flood the interiors market 2016 is proving to be the year that new economy seatmakers broke through the B/E Aerospace/Zodiac/Recaro domination of the market and secured massive orders. AirAsia is taking over 70,000 seats from Mirus Aircraft Seats – “312 ship sets and counting” said the decal on the tiny British seatmaker’s

Breaking the barriers for women in aviation International Women’s Day was marked once again this year by female aviators banding together on social media and at airports around the world. A variety of functions were held and scholarships announced and tales of pilots of bygone days recounted. And yet for the many positive events, there

Will Singapore Airlines up its stake in Virgin Australia? The coverage of the potential sale of Air New Zealand’s stake in Virgin Australia has been disappointing at best and naïve and possibly irresponsible at worst. Banner headlines such as “Virgin Australia’s credibility takes a dive” are inaccurate and could lead the general public to stop