The World of Aviation

Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order with Airbus for 30 A321s and 10 A330-300s. Delta’s A321s will seat 190 people in two classes. Many of the aircraft are expected to be assembled at the new Airbus assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, currently under construction and scheduled to deliver its first aircraft in 2016.

Next week Australia will have, no matter who wins the federal election, a new government. It might be led by the recycled, ‘everything old is new again’ Kevin Rudd, or more likely, as the polls suggest, Tony Abbott’s Liberal-Nationals Coalition. And it appears that that new government will make a new decision on a second

A report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) on the acquisition of the C-27J Spartan for the RAAF has concluded that the selection of the transport aircraft to replace the Caribou under AIR 8000 Phase 2 represented value for money. Defence agreed to acquire 10 aircraft through the US government’s Foreign Military Sales program

The Coalition has backed away from its earlier promise to fast track the acquisition of a Global Hawk/Triton UAV if elected to government on Saturday. In launching the coalition’s defence policy on Monday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said the Coalition would now “consider closely the need for unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles” as part of a

Guest editorial by Senator David Fawcett –  Modern airpower and the Peace of Westphalia (signed in 1648) may be centuries apart, but they share a common link – the concept of sovereignty. For a nation state to be sovereign, it needs to be capable of choosing a course of action that is in the best

With the addition of two new aircraft to its fleet, Jetstar Asia has announced an additional 18 weekly services from Singapore to Cambodia, Indonesia and China. From October 27 the schedule will include the addition of two flights per week from Singapore to Bali making it a daily service, the launch of three direct services