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AA is seeking an advertising sales executive
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Phantom Media, the publisher of Australian Aviation and Australian Defence Business Review magazines, this website and the DIAR.com e-newsletter, is seeking an advertising sales manager. See our ad on seek.com.au here for more details.

Bright future for Qantas’s Brisbane conversion facility
Defence

Qantas Defence’s Brisbane facility has a “bright future”, head of Qantas Aviation Services Glenn Brown has said, despite work on the final A330 to KC-30 MRTT tanker conversion nearing completion. “The Brisbane conversion centre is a Qantas facility. We’re hoping to finish work of the fifth [KC-30] later this month, following that, Qantas is hoping

AirAsia takes 100th A320
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Low cost airline AirAsia took delivery of its 100th A320 from Airbus in Toulouse on May 25, with the aircraft named in honour of former Airbus CEO and outgoing EADS CEO Louis Gallois. “Air Asia could not have reached this point in our amazing story without the tremendous support we’ve received from Airbus, going back

Leahy ‘disappointed’ at Qantas A380 deferral
Airlines

Airbus chief operating officer – customers John Leahy has expressed disappointment at Qantas’s recent decision to defer delivery of two more Airbus A380s. ”I wasn’t surprised, I think disappointed is more the word I would use,” Leahy said when asked of Qantas’s decision to defer delivery of two A380s due to be handed over to

Airbus Military boss calls for the right to compete on battlefield airlifter
Defence

Despite the Alenia C-27J being selected for the RAAF’s battlefield airlifter requirement earlier this month, Airbus Military CEO Domingo Urena has called for transparency over the decision and for an open competition in which it can offer the C295. “The only thing we claim is, ‘give us the right to compete’,” Urena told journalists in

Up to airlines to promote pilotless aircraft – Airbus
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Airbus says it is ready and able to build a pilotless airliner but is says it is up to the airlines to sell the concept to the public. Addressing global media at Airbus Innovation Days Airbus executive vice president of strategy and future programs Christian Scherer said that “airlines are pressing it to reduce costs