Lack of airline profitability could hinder airport infrastructure projects A lack of profitability at Qantas and Virgin Australia is threatening to derail or slow key infrastructure projects at Australia’s airports in the coming years. The parlous state of the airlines’ bottom line, with combined first half losses of $327 million and their inability to pass

Asia’s airlines are facing a pilot shortage If there’s some cold comfort for the 100 or so Qantas pilots the troubled carrier is trying to convince to take redundancy it lies in the irony that while the Flying Kangaroo appears to have a surplus of cockpit crew, everyone else in the world is scrambling around

ADF interest in a maritime UAS capability grows The ADF has taken the first tentative steps towards the operation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) aboard the Navy’s surface ships, with the release of a tender for companies to “register interest” in providing a naval UAS. The tender, released on the AusTender website on May 22

Air New Zealand orders neos as first 787-9 flies Fleet renewal continues apace at Kiwi flag carrier Air New Zealand used the annual IATA conference in Qatar in June to announce it is ordering 13 Airbus A320neo airliners, including no fewer than three A321neos which will be used to operate trans-Tasman and Pacific island services