Australian Aviation

Boeing’s CEO has no plans to slow down Boeing’s CEO and chairman Jim McNerney may be in denial about his approaching 65th birthday but he assured a small group of media at a roundtable at the 2014 Farnborough Airshow that there is no denying the success of Boeing’s product lineup. Nor is there any argument

Air New Zealand has turned on New’s Zealand’s largest single solar array to date at its technical operations base at Auckland Airport. A total of 480 solar panels has been fitted to an area of 750 metres square on one of Air NZ’s hangars. The array is estimated to produce 160,000KwH of electricity each year

Air New Zealand, Middle-earth’s precious airline, has begun filming its latest inflight safety video in preparation for its rollout across the Air NZ fleet in late October. The video will celebrate the upcoming release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (due out in cinemas in December), the final film in The Hobbit

Airlines are still grappling with the premium economy conundrum Happy 22nd birthday, premium economy, and many happy returns. In July 1992, EVA Air started serving Los Angeles from its base in Taipei with its first Boeing 747-400 aircraft and launched Economy Deluxe. In May of the same year, Virgin Atlantic introduced Mid Class for full

The MRH 90 has endured a turbulent ride The Australian National Audit Office report into the ADF’s AIR 9000 Phase 2/4/6 MRH 90 acquisition program is not a flattering one. The report doesn’t draw any real conclusions and makes a point of noting that many of the apparent mistakes made early in the project and

Flying in the three-week long Exercise Pitch Black 14 began on Monday. The biennial exercise is the RAAF’s largest, and this year sees participation from 110 aircraft and 2,300 personnel from Australia, the US, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and France operating from RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal.