Australian Aviation

Are the bulging order books of Asia’s LCCs sustainable? Given the number of single-aisle jets budget carriers across the wider Asian region have on order it is hardly surprising the most common question that pops up is: what are they going to do with them all? It’s a valid query. Malaysia’s AirAsia has a current

Society, safety and security are not in the 1960s any more You could be forgiven for thinking that Virgin Australia’s latest advertisement was a tie-in with Mad Men, the decade’s most popular part-panegyric, part-philippic to the best and worst of 1960s culture. A model with the cheekbones of Ian Thorpe, another who’s a ringer for

Keeping pace with aviation’s growth It gets one thinking; images of windowless airliners on the same page as supersonic corporate jets of the future. Flight times will be slashed as aircraft skip off the atmosphere and cross the planet in a few hours – what a world it will be. Where will it end? To

KLM retires the last passenger MD-11 On October 26 2014 a very special and unique era of aviation came to a close. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight KL672, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 named Audrey Hepburn, made its last passenger flight from Montreal to Amsterdam. The flight not only marked the end of scheduled MD-11 passenger

United completes world’s longest 787 route Direct 787 Melbourne flights begin No jet lag after a 15-hour flight? It is a statement most people, even those used to travelling at the pointy end of an aircraft, would find hard to believe. Dave Hilfman swears it is the truth though. This content is available exclusively to

Aviation Hall of Fame honours the past and inspires the future Wagga Wagga might seem like an unlikely place for the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame. The commercial hub of NSW’s Riverina region, Wagga Wagga, might not quite have the claims to Australian aviation that Sydney or Melbourne do, or indeed Hamilton in Victoria or