The World of Aviation

A Germanwings Airbus A320 carrying 144 passengers and six crew has crashed in a remote part of the French Alps. Flight tracking data showed flight 4U 9525 took off from Bacelona El Prat Airport bound for Dusseldorf at 0955 local time on Tuesday and had reached a cruising attitude of 38,000 feet before the aircraft entered a

The biennial Safeskies conference has chosen “training for change” as the theme for the 2015 event. The aviation safety conference will be held in Canberra on September 23-24 and feature Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss, Civil Aviation Safety Authority director of aviation safety Mark Skidmore and Chief of

Information technology company Unisys has extended its advanced baggage reconciliation contract with the bulk of Australia’s international airlines for a further four years. The contract, which covers seven Australian international airports – Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney – is for the system that links passengers with their bags and tracks both

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is hosing a number of workshops in April and May, following the release of the second edition of its safety management system (SMS) resource kit. The one-day workshops will be held in every state and territory capital except Hobart. During the session, CASA will go through the revised resource kit,

John Vincent has been named as the new president of the Australian Division of the Royal Aeronautical Society. A 40-year veteran of the aviation industry, including roles with the Air Pacific, Ansett and Qantas, Vincent takes over from AIRCDRE Noel Schmidt AM CSC (Ret.). He will be in the role for the next two years.

Allowing the proposed alliance between Qantas and China Eastern would give the two carriers the ability to limit capacity and lift fares on the Sydney-Shanghai route, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says. In a draft ruling, the competition regulator has knocked their application to work together in the Australia-China market, arguing the partnership