Australian Aviation

Australia contemplates additional C-17s and KC-30s Airlift has a strategic and diplomatic effect all of its own – witness the RAAF’s ability to rapidly deploy four Boeing C-17s to Japan to support humanitarian operations after the 2011 tsunami, or more recently, the deployment of C-17s and an Airbus KC-30 to Eindhoven in the Netherlands to

How the British Airways-Virgin Atlantic business class battle continues to change the world If Qantas invented business class in 1978, British Airways wasn’t far behind its transatlantic competitors Pan American and Trans World Airlines in offering a service between first class and economy. BA’s nemesis Virgin Atlantic, meanwhile, started the worldwide trend (continued by Virgin

Airline results, collapses highlight the brutal reality of regional aviation Last Man Standing is the title of the 2013/14 Regional Express annual report. With the collapse of Vincent Aviation, Brindabella Airlines and Aeropelican, it is perhaps an apt description for what has occurred in the past year. However, for the sake of those still plying

The Australian division of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Raes) has appointed Doug Nancarrow to the newly created position of general manager. RAeS Australian division president Noel Schmidt said the general manager position, which will be part-time, was created to help the society take a more productive and effective leadership role in the local aviation and

Pitch Black 2014, the RAAF’s major multinational air combat exercise, brought together a diversity of nations and aircraft to use the Top End’s vast training ranges Pitch Black 2014 saw seven nations deploy 2,300 personnel and up to 110 combat and support aircraft – from Thai Gripens and UAE Mirages to Singaporean F-15s – to

Virgin Australia has fleet options where Qantas does not The tale of the Qantas fleet plan possibly reflects two starkly contrasting aircraft purchases. In the 1950s and early ’60s, such was the popularity of the Vickers Viscount it kept British European Airways in profit despite losses on all other types across its vast fleet. In