The World of Aviation

Emirates Airlines President Tim Clark has lashed out at Airbus over its handling of A380 wing cracks, saying the airline will seek compensation for a claimed $90 million in lost revenues. Emirates is having to temporarily ground six of its 21 A380s at a time while the wing cracks are fixed. Clark told the Financial

China has held up $12 billion in aircraft sales from Airbus over the European Union’s carbon pricing scheme, Airbus said in a call for the EU to reconsider the plan. Louis Gallois, the CEO of Airbus parent EADS, told a news conference yesterday that Airbus has become a “hostage” to the dispute between the EU

One of the key pillars of Qantas’s strategy to revive its international business came toppling over today as the airline said it had broken off talks with Malaysia Airlines to establish a new premium carrier. Qantas offered few details, saying only that the talks “would not continue due to parties being unable to reach mutually

I’ve been writing stories for the past three issues of sister publication ADBR about the seemingly never-ending search for a Caribou replacement for the RAAF. I’ve looked at all the options – official and unofficial – the issues surrounding the US ANG C-27J program, what Airbus is countering with, and the possible timings of it

Since starting out on this writing caper, I’ve built up and constantly revised my daily reading list. Bloggers and news services have come and gone or have become more or less relevant. But one of the constants has been Neptunus Rex, the blog and pseudonym of retired US Navy F/A-18 pilot, Capt Caroll ‘Lex’ LeFon.

International Architecture firm Wood Bagot has been commissioned to complete the redesign of Perth Airport’s domestic and international terminals as the airport expands to meet a passenger boom. The first phase of the expansion, construction of a $200 million new domestic terminal aimed primarily at spiking regional travel, is already underway and scheduled for completion