Australian Aviation

Eleven-abreast in the A380 is nearing reality Eleven seats across in a 3-5-3 configuration on an Airbus A380’s main deck is no longer a napkin-sketched nightmare of minuscule proportions, it’s a reality – or, at least, it’s as close to reality as Airbus will get without an airline purchasing the layout and seats it was

US airlines need to go back to the future The heated war between US airline giants and Middle East carriers over alleged subsidies is more about the inability of US airlines to compete on the global stage. In fact they have lost the right stuff that made them great. This content is available exclusively to

Sully Sullenberger has used his fame for the good of aviation Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger has written his name into aviation history and folklore. His successful ditching of an Airbus A320 in 2009 has been well documented and the story revisited countless times since. Yet as amazing as the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ was, it

New Houston service to boost US arrivals – Luxon Air New Zealand to serve Texas’s biggest city from mid-December Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon says the push into the US heartland with new direct flights to Houston is all about opening up more opportunities for those in the US to make the journey

The threat of short-term thinking for Sydney West Airport The queues to get through immigration and the customs and quarantine points looked to be well over an hour long, especially if you weren’t travelling on an Australian passport. We’d just flown in overnight from Hong Kong, and it looked like one or two flights from

Airbus Group to bring into production all-electric two-seater aircraft Chris says: With a range of 120km I hope it performs well as a glider until the battery technology improves. GAGA says: It would presumably offer significant savings on ab-initio and circuit training but they don’t make any mention of running costs even in other more