The World of Aviation

Hawaiian Airlines has announced that it will start direct flights to Brisbane in November, making it the only US carrier to serve the Queensland capital. Hawaiian will start three times weekly services from Brisbane to Honolulu from November 28, with the flights operated by 262-seat Boeing 767-300ERs. The flights will be timed to connect at

The European Aviation Safety Authority has granted type certification for the ATR 42-600, clearing the way for the first customer deliveries of the 50-seat turboprop. The certification of the smaller aircraft comes after the larger ATR 72-600 received its type certification in May 2011, and effectively ends the development program for the -600 ATR variants.

Airservices Australia has started the first phase of an upgrade to the Instrument Landing System at Alice Springs Airport. The existing 18 year old ILS on runway 12 at the airport will be progressively upgraded over the next four months, with the new ILS to be brought into service by late September. “ILS is a

Bombardier Aerospace has lowered its forecast for the commercial aircraft market, but is expecting that the business aircraft market will return to growth from 2013. The Canadian airframer said in releasing its latest 20 year market forecast that in both the business and commercial (20-140 seat airliners) segments that while there were mixed indicators, trends

Air New Zealand has announced that its group general manager international airline Christopher Luxon will take over as CEO of the airline at the end of December when Rob Fyfe steps down. Mr Luxon joined the airline in May 2011 in his current role, and was previously CEO and president of Unilever Canada. “Christopher has

Airbus Military says that it has successfully tested loading two helicopters into one of its A400M Grizzly development aircraft, a key part of its testing program. Using development aircraft Grizzly 4, an NH Industries NH90 and Eurocopter EC725 were successfully loaded in separate tests at Holzdorf air base in Germany and in Toulouse, France. The