The World of Aviation

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X has started its daily service from Kuala Lampur to Sydney, with the carrier’s first A330 flight touching down at Kingsford-Smith this morning. The launch of Sydney services represents an important move for AirAsia X and comes days after the carrier ended flights to London and Paris. The long haul LCC

The federal government has rejected tougher regulation of Australia’s airports but has assigned the country’s competition watchdog to monitor airports for abuses of market power. That comes on the heels of a pair of reports on airports: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s annual airport monitoring report and the results of an inquiry by the

The Pentagon has increased its projection of through life costs for the US F-35 program by nine per cent to $1.51 trillion, unwelcome news for a program already under fire for cost overruns. The estimate includes development costs since 1994, production of the full US requirement of 2443 aircraft and support costs over a period

L-3 Communications and Alenia Aermacchi  have again promised to fully support new C-27J airlifters if Australia chooses to purchase the aircraft through the US Foreign Military Sales program. “L-3 and Alenia can assure the Commonwealth of Australia of complete through life support of the C-27J as part of a broad international user community,” the companies

Qantas will raise ticket prices for the second time in two months as it battles high fuel costs. The airline will increase its fuel surcharge on international flights by between $10 and $30 while domestic fares will rise by an average of about five per cent, including a $7 increase on a one-way fare between

Virgin Australia is to begin codesharing on Singapore Airlines flights to Singapore, China and South Africa from this month, the latest feature of the alliance between the two airlines to be rolled out. From today Virgin Australia can book on codeshared Singapore Airlines flights to Singapore from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Adelaide, and onwards