The World of Aviation

The first locally recruited and trained cabin crew members for Virgin Australia’s Adelaide base graduated on January 20. The 24 graduated have been training and testing for the past seven weeks, and will be part of the 80 new jobs the airline says it has brought to Adelaide since opening its base there. “We are

Virgin Australia has appointed 25 year US airline industry veteran Gary Hammes as its new chief operating officer (COO), with effect from February 11. Hammes joins Virgin Australia from World Airways, where he served as chief operating officer. Prior to World Airways he served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of ASTAR Air

Bombardier’s all-new CSeries narrowbody airliner will now not enter serve until the second half of 2015. At the time of the CSeries first flight, on September 16 last year, Bombardier was planning on first deliveries about 12 months later,  but it said in a statement released on Thursday that: “The flight test phase will require

Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines have announced a new alliance agreement that will see Air New Zealand operate flights to Singapore for the first time since 2006 and Singapore Airlines operate the A380 to New Zealand for the first time. Under the agreement an existing daily Singapore Airlines 777-300ER Singapore-Auckland service will be upgraded

Boeing says it began high speed wind tunnel testing of the 777X at its transonic wind tunnel in Seattle last week “The data will help engineers with the configuration development of the aircraft, validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) predictions and support preliminary loads cycle development,” Boeing said in a statement. “Subsequent rounds of low-speed and

Boeing’s Australia & South Pacific president, Ian Thomas, has been appointed as president of Boeing China. Thomas has led Boeing’s activities in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific from the company’s Sydney offices since 2009, and prior to that had been president of Boeing India. Boeing says a successor for Thomas in Australia will