The World of Aviation

Qantas has announced contingency plans to mitigate planned strike action by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) next week, when up to 3800 baggage handlers, ground staff, catering, freight and other transport employees will conduct a series of four hour work stoppages across Australia on September 20. The airline will use larger aircraft, consolidate services and

The RAF’s Airbus Military A330 MRTT Future Strategic Transport Aircraft (FSTA) has obtained military certification from Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Aerospacial (INTA), following civil certification by EASA earlier in July. With the final approvals from both military and civilian regulators, Airbus hopes to make its first aircraft delivery to the RAF “in the coming

Qantas will next month begin trialling streaming inflight entertainment to Apple iPad tablet computers on a single 767-300 in domestic service. The world first six week ‘Q Streaming’ trial will run from late October through to early December and will allow passengers to view content such as movies streamed to the iPads ‘on demand’.  Each

RAAF Caribous are set to return to the skies with Defence announcing that two of the aircraft are being acquired by HARS (the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society), and seven going to Brisbane based Amrock Aviation. The Illawarra based HARS will preserve its two Caribou in flying condition, with the support of Australian Aerospace, which provided

The RAAF has officially taken delivery of its fifth Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, A41-210, in a ceremony held at the manufacturer’s final assembly facility in Long Beach, California on September 14. The delivery ceremony for A41-210 was attended by Minister for Defence Stephen Smith, Chief of the Defence Force GEN David Hurley, secretary of the

The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has announced a series of four hour work stoppages for its Qantas workers on September 20, with up to 3800 union-aligned baggage handlers, ground staff, catering, freight and other transport employees across Australia taking action over a five per cent pay increase and various other job security concerns. Qantas has