Qantas's fourth Boeing 787-9 to feature indigenous livery
Qantas’s says its fourth Boeing 787-9 will celebrate Australia’s indigenous peoples with a yet-to-be-revealed special livery. The aircraft, registration VH-ZND, is due to arrive from the Boeing final assembly line in Everett, Washington State, in early March 2018 and be welcomed into the fleet at a special arrival event in Alice Springs. Further, it will
ADF Joint Helicopter Aircrew Training School commences training
The first group of students has commenced training on the ADF’s new training helicopter, the EC135, at the HMAS Albatross-based Joint Helicopter Aircrew Training School (JHATS). The JHATS, run by Boeing Defence Australia and its partners including Thales Australia, welcomed the first 37 trainee pilots and aircrew at 723SQN on January 17 at the Naval
Boeing forms seats joint-venture with Adient to address "persistent challenge"
Boeing plans to deepen its involvement in the aircraft seats market through a new joint-venture (JV) with car seat maker Adient. The JV will be called Adient Aerospace and have its operational headquarters, technology centre and initial production plant in Kaiserslautern, Germany, the pair said in a joint statement on Tuesday (US time). Adient Aerospace
Brisbane Airport names new chief executive
Brisbane Airport has named a senior executive from New York’s John F Kennedy Airport as its new chief executive. Gert-Jan De Graaff will take over from Julieanne Alroe as Brisbane Airport chief executive from the end of June, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Since 2014, De Graaff has been president and chief
An Australian air traffic control (ATC) officer instructed the flight crew of an Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 to “go round, you are low” during one of two missed approaches to Perth Airport, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. In addition to the two go-arounds, the ATSB final report into the February 19 2016 incident
Singapore Airlines adds Hong Kong and London for A380s featuring new cabin products
Travellers will be able to fly on Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) new Airbus A380 cabins all the way from Sydney to London Heathrow via Singapore from mid-February. The Star Alliance member debuted its new A380 seats on the Singapore-Sydney route on December 18 2017, shortly after it took delivery of the first of five new A380s
