The World of Aviation

Alliance Airlines has added a 737-400 to its fleet, with the ex Qantas and Qantas-Jetconnect aircraft now operated on Alliance’s behalf by New Zealand based Airwork. The aircraft, ZK-JTQ, arrived in Perth on Monday. It will be operate a twice daily mine charter between Perth and Karratha. It is pictured here transiting Adelaide on its

A union official has lashed out at Qantas plans to shed 500 jobs as illegal, saying the airline should be prosecuted under the Fair Work Act. Calling Qantas CEO Alan Joyce a “foul liar,” Transport Workers Union boss Tony Sheldon said the plan to cut jobs violated requirement laid out by Fair Work Australia and

Virgin Australia, Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines are to begin offering “rescue fares” for passengers stranded by the collapse of Air Australia. An estimated 4000 passengers are stuck in Thailand, Bali and Hawaii after the budget carrier was unable to pay for fuel and abruptly ceased flying and went into voluntary administration. Virgin said it would

Pratt & Whitney has begun icing testing its PurePower PW1524G engine for the Bombardier C-Series aircraft. The overall PW1523G test program has run more than 1200 hours to date, including over 200 flight hours on a 747 test aircraft. P&W says its next generation PurePower engines will offer double digit improvements in fuel efficiency while

The travel plans of hundreds of passengers have been thrown into disarray with the financial collapse of Air Australia, with the company’s director calling in John Park and Mark Korda of KordaMentha as Voluntary Administrators in the early hours of this morning. “It currently appears that there are no funds available to meet operational expenses

Airbus Military has announced a firm contract to supply nine C295 military transports to the Indonesian Air Force. Deliveries of the aircraft are slated to begin this year with all nine scheduled to arrive by 2014. The aircraft will be supplied via a contract with PT Dirgantara Indonesia, which will establish a final assembly line