Australian Aviation

Politics at the heart of JAL, ANA competition Not Happy Mr Abe! That was the message from Japan Airlines (JAL) chief executive Yoshiharu Ueki to the country’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in what has developed into an unprecedented spat between the national carrier and the politicians and regulators with which it has traditionally shared a

A new Chinese regional airline to be named Sutong Airlines is acquiring 30 Bombardier Q400s. The new airline’s parent, Nantong Tongzhou Bay Aviation Industry Co., Ltd, has signed a letter of intent with Bombardier for a fleet of 30 Q400s with which Sutong will start operations form 2015. “With its regional aviation model set to revolutionise

And how Air New Zealand is innovating to change It started out as blank door in an obscure warehouse in Auckland in 2008, but the results were anything but obscure. Looks were certainly deceiving for the warehouse was the home of Air New Zealand’s initial cabin think tank group that brought the Skycouch to the

Qantas has asked the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to place its shares in an immediate trading halt. “The trading halt is requested pending receipt of information from Standard and Poor’s in relation to Qantas’s credit rating, which is likely to be materially price sensitive,” company secretary Taryn Morton wrote to the ASX. This content is

A Russian ‘cow’ in ADF service Few are aware that a Mil Mi-26 helicopter, nicknamed ‘Kordova’ in Russian, meaning ‘cow’, is in Australian service in Afghanistan. The monstrous, eight-bladed machine, easily the world’s largest and most powerful production helicopter, is leased through DynCorp (Australia), but owned and operated by Russian firm Vertical-T. This content is

South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill has officially opened BAE Systems Australia’s new $10m titanium machining facility at Edinburgh Parks, South Australia, which the company will use in the fabrication of F-35 vertical tail components. The new facilities feature a Starrag BTP5000 titanium milling machine, which BAE says is the only example of its type in the