All Airbus Helicopters H225s (EC225LP) have been grounded following a fatal crash of a CHC Helicopter’s H225 off the west coast of Norway on April 29 killing all 11 passengers and two crew on board. The H225, registered LN-OJF, operated on behalf of Statoil, was returning to Bergen from the Gullfaks B platform, 120 kilometres
Qantas is establishing a dedicated sub-fleet of six freighter aircraft to deliver domestic mail, parcels and Express Post for Australia Post and its subsidiary StarTrack. The fleet comprises two Boeing 737-300Fs and three BAe 146-300Fs from Qantas’s existing freighter fleet that will be joined by a new Boeing 737-400F, with the aircraft to branded with StarTrack livery. From July the aircraft
Captain Debbie Slade has been a Qantas pilot for 27 years and counting. During that time, she has gone to work in a uniform that, while functional and practical, was never really designed for women pilots. All that will change from October, when Slade will head into the flightdeck of the Airbus A330s she currently flies
Bombardier’s CSeries has received its first order from a US carrier, with Delta Air Lines to purchase 75 CS100s and hold options over a further 50 aircraft. The order is the latest show of confidence in the CSeries program in 2016, after Air Canada ended a year-long order drought in February when it signed a
Airbus is banking on a big second half of calendar 2016 after production issues delayed aircraft deliveries and dragged down profitability in the first quarter of the current year. The company reported net profit of EUR365 million euros for the three months to March 31 2016, down 50 per cent from EUR792 million in the
Boeing has reaffirmed its 2016 forecast for revenue and aircraft deliveries after posting a nine per cent drop in net profit in the first quarter, when it delivered fewer aircraft and took a one-off change on its KC-46 tanker project. The manufacturing giant said net earnings (or net profit) fell nine per cent to US$1.2
