The World of Aviation

Etihad carried 10.29 million passengers during 2012, exceeding its target of 10 million passengers for the year. The figure is up from 8.41 million passengers in 2011, representing a 22 per cent increase. The growth was spurred by partner airlines in which Etihad has investments including Virgin Australia, airberlin, Aer Lingus and Air Seychelles.  Etihad

Lockheed Martin is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Lockheed Company, which was originally incorporated on December 19 1912, in San Francisco, California. “It took the Lockheed brothers two years of hard work to get their first plane airborne, and they faced innumerable technical and operational challenges along the way,” said Bob Stevens,

A refreshed and updated Australian Aviation will launch when the January/February edition of the magazine goes on sale on January 3. For 2013, Australian Aviation‘s print edition moves to a new, wider format magazine with an increased page count allowing the introduction of new regular columns and a redesigned news section. “The decision taken some

Phantom Media, the publisher of Australian Aviation and sister magazine Australian Defence Business Review wishes all its readers a very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. We thank you for your readership and support in 2012, and are looking forward to a bigger and even brighter 2013! In the meantime the Phantom

The Williams Foundation think tank has questioned the government’s decision to further delay a decision on Australia’s air combat capability transition plan and to submit an LOR to the US government for 24 more Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets. In a December 17 release, the foundation laid out the four options which government considered before announcing

 The US Air Force has declared its 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB is now ‘ready for training’ on the F-35A Lightning II, following the successful completion of a 65 day operational utility evaluation (OUE) in November. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) commander, Gen Edward Rice Jr said: “The preliminary results provided by the