The World of Aviation

Newcastle Airport is on the lookout for a new chief executive, with Paul Hughes to step down in March 2015 after 10 years in the role. Hughes, who announced his resignation on Thursday, said it had been a career highlight to lead the airport through a period of significant growth. “In the next 12 months,

QantasLink will bring airline competition to the Adelaide-Whyalla route from April 2015. The regional carrier will fly 13 times a week between the South Australian capital and Whyalla, a coastal city located north west of Adelaide, using 50-seat Q300 aircraft. QantasLink said on Thursday the new service represented about 1,300 seats a week to Whyalla – the

Australian spending on leisure-related travel has not recovered since the federal budget was handed down in May, a leading travel agent group says. Flight Centre says trading conditions in Australia over the first five months of 2014/15 have been challenging, given the lack of uptick in leisure travel spending. In response, the company has reduced

Business jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation has presented its ultra long-range Falcon 8X to the world at an unveiling ceremony in Bordeaux, France. The Falcon 8X, which was designed to enable non-stop flights such as Sydney-Mumbai, Hong Kong-London or Beijing-Los Angeles, was unveiled to media, operators and industry figures on Wednesday (French time) at the company’s Bordeaux-Merignac

Adelaide-based regional operator Air South has boosted its passenger fleet with the acquisition of two 30-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia aircraft. The charter and fly-in/fly-out specialist has taken delivery of the first Brasilia (VH-YEG), with the second due to arrive in early 2015. Director of Air South and sister carrier Rossair Mark Lindh says the Brasilia

When Abu Dhabi International Airport’s new midfield terminal building opens in the third quarter of 2017, it will add two hundred per cent extra capacity to the airport’s current limits. The new terminal will serve as the home Etihad Airways, which will relocate to its 65 gates along with most of its partners – likely