The World of Aviation

Qantas is set to begin new four times weekly services between Brisbane and Tokyo Narita from August 1 2015, and has announced it will shift its daily Sydney-Tokyo flights from Narita to Haneda from July 31 2015. And a further three times weekly service to Narita, operating on alternate days to the Brisbane flights, will

Quickstep says it has secured a new purchase order to build a further 12 flap sets plus spares for Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter. The flaps are covered by a December 2013 memorandum of agreement with Lockheed Martin to supply more than 120 carbon fibre flaps for the C-130J aircraft through until 2018. The latest

Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon has flagged capacity growth in the order of five to six per cent a year over the next five years as the airline adds a further two Boeing 787-9 aircraft to its existing order book. The airline announced the order for two more Dreamliners, which are due for delivery

Qantas’s international operations are expected to make a positive contribution to the airline’s return to profitability in the first half of 2014/15 as the carrier makes “rapid progress” with its three-year, $2 billion cost cutting program. Despite the brighter outlook for the long-suffering international arm, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline will maintain

Qantas has guided the market to an underlying profit before tax in the first half of 2014/15 in the vicinity of $300 million to $350 million amid lower fuel prices and as the airline group’s cost cutting measures bear fruit. The airline said in a statement released to the Australian stock exchange on Monday all of

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) will open a fresh investigation into the ditching of a Pel-Air Westwind corporate jet off Norfolk Island in 2009. The decision to reopen the case was made following a critical review of the original inquiry by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), which found the ATSB did not