Jamie Freed from Fairfax Media has taken out the aviation journalist of the year award for 2015 at the National Aviation Press Club awards, while Australian Aviation managing editor Gerard Frawley, was named runner up in that category. It was a night of double celebration for Freed, also won the aviation news story of the year
Makers of Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie have taken to the skies to promote the upcoming movie featuring the popular cartoon characters. Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and others are featured the fuselage of a Jetstar Airbus A320, VH-VQG, which made its first revenue flight on Monday with the new decals when it operated
Xiamen Airlines has become the latest Chinese airline to land in Australia with the Skyteam member’s inaugural flight Down Under touching down in Sydney on Monday morning. Boeing 787-8 B-2763, operating MF807 from Fuzhou, arrived at Mascot at 0955 local time and received an ARFF monitor cross during its taxi to the gate. The aircraft was
Boeing has marked the completion of C-17 Globemaster final assembly at its Long Beach, California plant. The last of 279 C-17s to be built at Long Beach flew over the assembly facility there on Sunday (US time) before heading to the company’s San Antonio site for short-term storage ahead of delivery to Qatar early next year. “This
Regional Express (Rex) deputy chairman John Sharp says the airline is in a strong position to withstand the current weakness in the national economy. However, other regional operators may not be so fortunate. “The Australian economy, reflecting the worldwide one, continues to be weak and this will prolong the crisis affecting regional aviation,” Sharp told
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a draft ruling giving American Airlines and Qantas’s proposed expanded alliance on trans-Pacific routes the green light for the next five years. Although Qantas and American had an existing alliance that the ACCC approved in September 2011 for five years, the pair sought reauthorisation of a
