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Not yet, but if it comes are we ready? For as long as I can remember, the pilot shortage has been coming. And yet, it is still to arrive. Decade after decade the forecasts are made and the flying schools seize upon the headlines to promote their wares. In the airlines, pilots become starry-eyed about

Virgin Australia has announced an extra six flights a week to Denpasar from Australia’s east coast. From December 19, the airline will add an extra weekly service from Brisbane, two extra services from Sydney and a further three weekly services from Melbourne. The additional flights will be timed to complement existing services and will add more

It’s not really goodbye Much is being made of the impending closure of the longest nonstop scheduled flights in the world – Singapore Airlines’ services from its hub at Changi Airport to Newark and Los Angeles. Served for nearly a decade by a five-strong fleet of Airbus A340‑500s making the 17-19 hour flights, the realities

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TAE is consolidating its Masling Industries engine fuel control and electrical component maintenance operation from Cootamundra in country NSW to its Adelaide Airport facilities. TAE said in a statement that: “The services currently provided by Masling Industries will be integrated with TAE’s existing avionics and electrical component maintenance business in Adelaide and will be repositioned

Has Qantas’s love affair with the 787 just begun? Over 60 years ago Eastern Airline’s president Eddie Rickenbacker commented to Donald Douglas Snr when buying a fleet of Douglas DC‑8s that he wasn’t buying an airplane he was buying integrity. Rickenbacker had asked Douglas if he could reduce the noise on the jet engines. Douglas