Australian Aviation

Qantas seeking quicker turnaround times and more efficient fleet use Aircraft on the ground don’t make any money is one of the accepted truths in aviation. As such, airlines around the world have tried to keep their operating fleets flying for as long as possible each day to improve utilisation and lower unit costs. This

Sometimes blood is thicker than avgas Aviation has its fair share of family connections. Children following in parents’ footsteps to the flightdeck and siblings crewing the same flight are not unusual occurrences. However, sometimes that family affinity runs even deeper, drawing in the generations across a broad spectrum of the industry. Just the beginning Growing

Virgin Australia and Jetstar cancelled all flights into and out of Bali on Friday and have a number of services for Saturday under review due to the ash cloud from the Mount Raung volcano. Passengers booked to travel on both airlines have been asked to check the status of their flight online for the latest

Are drones the new IEDs? For the past 14 years the best trained, best equipped, most technologically-advanced armies the world has ever known, including those from America, Australia, the UK and Canada, have been fighting in the so-called ‘War on Terror’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of February 2015, those armies had suffered approximately 8,000

No luxury please, we’re Chinese With a population of some 1. 4 billion and a rapidly expanding middle class you would think China’s airlines would have little to gripe about as they survey the enormous potential pool of travellers available to fill the ever-increasing number of seats they are throwing into the country’s crowded skies.

Time for Qantas and Virgin to showcase Australian sparkling wine onboard Both Qantas and Virgin Australia have an excellent history of bringing some of Australia’s best wines into the cabin and across the world, and they should be praised for that. But the fact remains that the quality sparkling wine on board is still French