The World of Aviation

Virgin Australia has revealed plans to upgrade its domestic terminals at Sydney and Melbourne Airports, which are expected to be completed by the end of the year. Changes for Sydney Airport will include a new, two level, 560-seat lounge, doubling the size of the existing lounge, five new narrow body parking positions, the capability to

Virgin Australia has revealed product details of its new build Airbus A330-200s, two of which are being delivered to the airline with a third to follow later in the year. The three new A330-200s, which will join the two existing A330-200 acquired secondhand, will be used predominantly for transcontinental services between Sydney and Melbourne and

The rear fuselage section for the first A350 XWB to be assembled has arrived at Airbus’s A350 XWB Final Assembly Line in Toulouse. The rear fuselage section, assembled at Airbus’s Hamburg plant, comprises the rear fuselage barrel, produced at Airbus’s Getafe plant in Spain, two lateral aft fuselage panels made by Premium AEROTEC in Germany, plus

Lufthansa has taken delivery of the first Boeing 747-8I Intercontinental for passenger operations, with the German airline’s first of 20 updated 747s handed over at Boeing’s Everett plant on April 25. After its own preparations Lufthansa plans to fly the 747-8I to Frankfurt on May 1 ahead of a welcome ceremony for the aircraft there

An F-35A has completed the Joint Strike Fighter program’s first inflight refuelling while configured with external weapons. The April 21 flight from Edwards Air Force base saw F-35A AF-4 refuel from a KC-10 tanker while carrying two inert AIM-9X missiles externally and two JDAM guided bombs and AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles internally. “The two-hour mission tested

Jetstar Japan has taken delivery of its first aircraft, with the first of a planned fleet of 24 Airbus A320s handed over in Toulouse this week. The 180-seat A320 is the first of an initial fleet of three Jetstar Japan will use to commence services with from July, initially linking Tokyo Narita with Kansai, Fukuoka,