Welcome to our latest “Throwback Thursday” feature article from a past edition of Australian Aviation. Here, this August 2017 issue story looked at Qantas’s work with the University of Sydney to help reduce jetlag on its Perth-London Heathrow nonstop flights with the Boeing 787-9, which commence on Saturday. Anyone who has ever made the journey
In Jules Verne’s classic novel 19th century novel, protagonist Phileas Fogg bets 20,000 pounds on being able to go, as the title of the book states, “Around the World in 80 Days“. Since its publication in 1873 (and subsequent translation into English) the work of fiction has spawned multiple real-life attempts. Some, such as Michael
Virgin Australia has named Merren McArthur as the chief executive of the airline group’s low-cost carrier (LCC) unit Tigerair Australia. Currently, McArthur is group executive for Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Virgin Australia Cargo. She will commence her new role on May 7 2018, Virgin Australia said in a statement on Wednesday. Tigerair Australia
In the week Qantas prepares to launch the first regularly scheduled nonstop flights linking the continents of Australia and Europe, the Northern Territory government is reviving an air race first held when such an undertaking would have been inconceivable. In 1919, the Australian Government challenged the world’s leading aviators to fly from Great Britain to
As Virgin Australia prepares to receive its first Boeing 737 MAX in the final quarter of calendar 2019, group executive for airlines Rob Sharp says decisions about the new aircraft will be made in the context of its “customer needs and network”. While the initial 2012 order was for the MAX 8 variant, Virgin Australia
The Army says its new CH-47F Chinook has “excelled” during its first overseas deployment, which has seen three ‘Foxtrot’ model heavylift helicopters deploy to Papua New Guinea to provide disaster relief flights in the wake of a magnitude-7.5 earthquake late last month. The quake, which struck PNG’s Highlands region on February 26, affected up to
