The World of Aviation

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has given draft approval to the proposed Qantas-Emirates partnership. The approval, granted for five years of the planned 10-year arrangement between the airlines, will allow Qantas and Emirates to coordinate pricing, sales and capacity. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the draft determination was “an important step towards delivering

By Michael Gisick The Byzantine Empire, as the standard-bearer of Christian civilization for a millennium after the fall of Rome, deserves to be remembered for many things. But it has left its clearest mark in modern English as a term for a particularly self-destructive form of politics – one defined by consuming internal rivalry and

Air Canada is committing to a massive push into the Asia Pacific region during 2013 as part of what it sees as the Pacific Century, including increased frequency to Sydney, consideration of expanding to Melbourne and a raft of new services into Asia. In Australia, the airline has already increased the frequency of services between

Singapore Airlines (SIA) is ramping up international competition in Australia with the announcement it will add a fourth daily service to Melbourne and is scaling up services to Adelaide. From July 1 SIA will operate 28 flights a week from Melbourne and 12 a week from Adelaide. The new services will bring to 121 the

A fractured turbine blade led to an engine shutdown on a Qantas 747 flight from Sydney to Singapore last year, the ATSB has found. The flight landed safely in Singapore following the May 9, 2011 incident, which occurred roughly 100 km east of Bali. The ATSB determined that a fatigue crack originating near the blade

Airservices is reminding business jet operators and airlines to fit Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems ahead of the CASA-mandated deadline of December 12 2013. The mandate requires domestic and international operators of aircraft that fly above 29,000ft to have ADS-B fitted when flying within the Australian flight information region. Airservices estimates more than 80 per