Australian Aviation

Oneworld alliance partners American Airlines (AA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) have launched a joint transpacific business venture, in a bid to consolidate their position in the northern Pacific market. Due to take effect from April 1, the move will see the two carriers align their schedules at Tokyo Narita and Tokyo Haneda and New York,

Regional airline Airnorth is set to double the frequency of its Darwin to Gold Coast via Mount Isa services with the addition of a second weekly flight. Supplementing the current Thursday schedule, the new Wednesday service is due to start on  February 16. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. LoginBecome a MemberTo

Jetstar has been named official airline partner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and its associated tournaments across the Asia Pacific through to 2013. “Jetstar’s ongoing expansion in Asia, today’s dominant global aviation market, presented an incredible opportunity, and its strategic new partnership with the WTA gives great leverage to the Jetstar brand, a greater

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been forced to admit that China is farther along with its military technical developments than he had previously given it credit for. Speaking just before arriving in Beijing, Gates, who had previously said the US did not expect to see China unveil a fifth generation combat aircraft before 2020

Guggenheim Aviation Partners (GAP) has cancelled its remaining orders for two 747-8F freighters after cancelling its other two in early 2010. The lessor, which ordered four 747-8Fs in August 2007, says the delays to the aircraft’s development program and the associated economic impact left it with “no alternative” but to cancel the order. Two of

China’s CDB Leasing has signed a firm order for 10 Embraer E-190s, to be operated by China Southern Airlines. The first E-190 from the order is due for delivery in the second half of 2011.