Australian Aviation

Former CEO of the Council for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) David Byers has joined Airservices Australia in the role of general manager, corporate and international affairs. Meanwhile, Airservices has also announced that the Safety and Environment business group has been divided into separate groups. Former audit and assurance GM Michelle Bennetts heads the new

Boeing has announced that Saudi Arabian Airlines has placed an order for 12 Boeing 777-300ERs with options on a further 10. The airline has also ordered eight 787s, which have been transferred from an order previously placed by Kuwaiti lessor ALAFCO.

Looking closer at Qantas’s fleet The aircraft operated by Qantas have played a major role in that history, seeing it grow from a small regional operation to one of the world’s biggest and most respected carriers. Qantas has always been seen as an influential buyer of aircraft, and has often played a part in the

Qantas’s pioneering Queenstown operations In its 90 years of aviation, QANTAS has been at the forefront of numerous technological advances. From the dawn of the jet age and the Boeing 707 to the certification of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was in 1995. Today the airline is once again at the cutting edge with

The first F-15Cs to be upgraded with the AN/APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar were deployed to Kadena AFB on the Japanese island of Okinawa in late October. The aircraft are the first of 27 USAF and 18 Air National Guard F-15C/Ds currently under contract to receive the upgrade. Longer term plans call for

Qantas’s future flightpath At the press conference in July 2009 to announce his appointment Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s joked to the media that hopefully the only difference the staff and travelling public would notice between him and Geoff Dixon was his Irish accent. The statement was more to appease the shareholders and financial analysts that