Taking delivery – how Cathay Pacific accepts into service a brand new airliner
Captain David Lohse knows what it is like to take an aircraft to the edge of its operating limits. That’s because as head of flight technical services for Cathay Pacific, it is his and his team of test pilots and flight test engineers’ job to ensure all of the Hong Kong-based airline’s aircraft – from
Light-handed regulation of Australia and New Zealand’s airports has been ineffective at protecting consumers from higher charges due to their monopoly power, a report says. The findings are in the “Performance and Impact of Australia’s Airports Since Privatisation” report prepared by Frontier Economics and commissioned by recently-formed lobby group Airlines for Australia and New Zealand
Space is cool again. That’s the view of Arianespace managing director and head of sales for Asia Pacific Vivian Quenet. While high-profile projects from the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson undoubtedly capture a lot of headlines, there is also a growing trend in smaller satellites, particularly among universities and entrepreneurs.
Canberra Airport managing director Stephen Byron has denied claims his airport held a Qantas Boeing 737-800 for ransom following a diversion in March 2017. The claim, made by Qantas on Monday, relates to a flight en route from Auckland to Sydney that landed at Canberra Airport due to bad weather. A senior Qantas spokesperson said
Randy Tinseth remembers the first time he visited Tokyo Narita Airport. It was 1989 and there were Boeing 747s lined up as far as the eye could see. Fast forward a few years and those 747s had given way to Boeing’s latest widebody workhorse, the 777. When Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice president of marketing visits
Virgin Australia says it is aiming to have a equal number of male and female pilots in its pilot cadetship program as part of efforts to boost the number of female pilots in its ranks. The airline group is planning for a 50:50 gender target as it opens applications for the 2019 intake, which will
