Australian Aviation

Qantas has announced that it will install tri-generation powerplants at three of its Sydney facilities as part of an ongoing program to reduce its carbon footprint. Two powerplants will be installed by GridX at the company’s Sydney Jet Base, which will provide power and also use residual heat for heating and cooling purposes, achieving efficiencies

Qantas has announced that it will increase capacity on the Sydney-Tokyo route from July due to buoyant demand from leisure travellers and an expected increase in business traffic. Qantas currently operates daily services on the route with an Airbus A330-300, but from July 5 it will introduce two-class Boeing 747-400s on six of the services,

Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Airlines have entered into an agreement to increase the cooperation between the two companies, which will see Lufthansa Cargo become the leading global brand. Under the agreement, which takes effect from July 1, the two companies have agreed to “optimise” traffic flows and freight handling arrangements through their hubs in Frankfurt,

South African Airways has appointed Siza Mzimela as its CEO, effective April 1. Mzimela is currently the CEO of domestic carrier SA Express, and has extensive experience in managing airlines throughout Africa.

The USAF has proposed buying 112 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks and converting them to an HH-60L configuration for Combat Search And Rescue (CSAR) work to replace the service’s ageing fleet of HH-60G Pave Hawks. The decision comes in the wake of the abandonment of the CSAR-X program earlier this year and an urgent requirement to

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