Australian Aviation

Australia’s major airlines have today both announced major sponsorship deals, with Qantas sponsoring the Tropfest short film festival and Virgin Australia becoming a sponsor of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team. As well as flights, the Tropfest sponsorship will see Qantas sponsor a six-month paid internship for the winner to work in-house at Qantas as part

Korean Air has completed an order for five 747-8s and six 777-300ERs announced earlier this year. In addition, Korean Air has also announced an order for one additional 787. With this order Korea’s flag carrier expands its backlog of 747-8s and 777-300ERs to 10 each. The order also increases Korean Air’s 787 backlog to 11.

VivaAerobus has ordered 52 Airbus A320s in what is the biggest Airbus aircraft order by a single airline in Latin American history. VivaAerobus, a Mexican low-cost carrier, will replace its entire fleet of 737-300 to become an all-Airbus carrier by 2016. Credited with being a pioneer in Mexico’s ’Bus to Air’ model, an initiative to

Aviation/Aerospace Australia has confirmed its initial speakers list for the upcoming Women in Aviation/Aerospace Australia National Summit in Melbourne on November 18. Representing a cross-section of women from within the aviation and aerospace industries, the summit will also hear from senior executive women in other industry sectors.   Kathryn Fagg – board member, Reserve Bank of Australia; chair, Melbourne Recital Centre

Undeterred by politics, the regional sector demonstrates resolve and optimism It has been a long exercise in impatience for the executive chairman of Regional Express, Lim Kim Hai, who in late August launched another caustic attack on the (then) federal government for its policies that he said had been damaging the regional airline industry. Lim’s

DAHER-SOCATA is displaying a TBM 850 in a polished aluminium finish at this week’s NBAA convention in Las Vegas, which it says demonstrates its ability to meet unique customer personalisation requests. Says the company: “To meet this customer personalisation request involved extra work time and research. The consequences of a bare metal finish needed to