The World of Aviation

  Hobart Airport has been allocated $38 million over the next three years to extend its runway. The project will receive $5.5 million in 2014-15, $26.1 million in 2015-16 and $6.4 million in 2016-17, the federal government’s budget papers released on Tuesday showed. Deputy prime minister Warren Truss said the 500-metre runway extension would create

Australia is expected to spend $90 million on the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is forecast to spend $60 million on the search for the Boeing 777-200 aircraft over this year and next, the federal budget papers handed down on Tuesday night show. The ATSB was expected

Airbus’s first aircraft, the A300, is still going strong 40 years after entering service. Air France placed the first A300B into commercial service four decades ago on May 12 1974. Airbus would go on to build some 878 A300s – the world’s first widebody twin airliner – through until mid-2007, and says more than 400 of

Regional Express’s (Rex) pilot cadet program has been recognised with a workplace development award. The airline took out the innovation and excellence in workforce development gong at the recent Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC) annual awards. It was a double celebration for Rex, with one of its pilots Carl Riseley named TLISC trainee

Australia’s largest telco Telstra is conducting flight tests that would allow inflight wi-fi access using 4G mobile phone technology. The technology, dubbed ‘Skinet’, uses four specially-built mobile phone tower sites with upwards-facing antennas located underneath the Melbourne-Sydney flightpath and a specially-fitted antenna on the aircraft. Telstra executive director of networks Mike Wright said Telstra was

As a Qantas Frequent Flyer based in Perth, writes Chris Frame, yesterday’s cessation of international services is a sad reality that still seems quite unbelievable. In the 1990s, customers from all Australian capital cities could board a Qantas aircraft and fly to variety of destinations without changing carriers. Destinations accessible from Perth included Rome, Paris,