The World of Aviation

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority has appointed Karen Wheeler as group manager – operations of its Aviation Security Service (Avsec), with effect from October 20. Urwin will be based in Wellington and will oversee Avsec’s security services at New Zealand’s six security designated airports, plus will be responsible for managing the Explosive Detector Dog program, and re-establishing

If you are under 35 and fancy yourself as the next Alan Joyce, John Borghetti or Lim Kim Hai, then Aviation/Aerospace Australia (A/AA) wants to hear from you. Applications are open for A/AA’s inaugural Altitude event in Melbourne on November 19, with the seven winners to make a six-minute presentation around the theme “Making Australia

The Air New Zealand subsidiary that helped design the Skycouch has been sold to a UK-based airline interiors design, engineering and manufacturing company. The airline said on Monday its wholly-owned Altitude Aerospace Interiors was being offloaded to AIM Aviation. Altitude Aerospace Interiors was established in 2008 and it workforce of about 100 staff designed, engineered

Hamilton Island will maintain a second airline service to Brisbane with QantasLink to operate the route four times a week from the end of November. Running between Friday and Monday, the flights start on November 28 and will be operated by Q400 aircraft with 74 seats, QantasLink said in a statement on Monday. QantasLink’s new

Perth Airport received its second Boeing 787 Dreamliner operator on Sunday morning when Thai Airways flight TG483 landed at 0728 local time. The six hour and 33 minute journey was Thai’s first flight to Perth using the 787-8, with the route previously been operated by Airbus A330 aircraft. Thai Airways, which took delivery of its

The main contingent of RAAF personnel and aircraft being deployed to contribute to US-led efforts to “disrupt and degrade” ISIL forces in Iraq departed RAAF bases Amberley and Williamtown on Sunday, headed to Al Minhad air base in the UAE. The contingent includes F/A-18F Super Hornets, a KC-30A tanker transport and an E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning