Virgin ground for Borghetti
As a former employee of another part of the Qantas Group, I only met John Borghetti once at an employee roadshow in 2007 talking about some of the future plans of the group. But from what I saw of him, I think he’ll make a great CEO at Virgin Blue, both personally and professionally. The
LAN to resume some services from Santiago
Chilean carrier LAN Airlines has announced that it will resume restricted international and domestic services on March 2 following damage to the Arturo Merino Benitez Airport at Santiago as a result of the earthquake experienced off the Chilean coast on February 27. “The situation is far from normal operations. We are working to be able
DAHER-SOCATA has handed over the first TBM 850 turborprop featuring a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit to an Australian customer. The 2010 model TBM 850 was delivered on March 1 to Capstone Financial Services, which decided to purchase the aircraft after meeting with representatives at the 2009 Avalon Airshow. As with all TBMs produced from 2008
Jetstar adds new fare product
Jetstar has announced that it will expand its fare product offering on long haul flights with the launch of JetPlus fares. The new fare product, which will only be available on international services operated by its fleet of Airbus A330-200s, will include bundling of a portable video on demand unit, meal and drinks package and
Storrie steps down
Qantas chief financial officer Colin Storrie has announced that he will resign from the company and its board from March 5 to spend time with his family for personal and health reasons. “Colin Storrie has contributed greatly to Qantas maintaining a strong financial position during his time as CFO and before that as deputy CFO,”
Unauthorised low level flying could be fatal – ATSB
A new bulletin released by the ATSB shows that unauthorised and unnecessary low level flying has resulted in the deaths of at least 12 people over the past 10 years. The bulletin, which is aimed at educating the flying community about the hazards of unauthorised low level flying, presents a number of case studies of
