The World of Aviation

Qantas has appointed experienced industry veteran Hugh Davin to the new position of head of charter business to oversee the airline’s expansion into the charter and fly-in/fly-out markets. Davin was most recently managing director of Skywest, responsible for the Perth based airline’s successful charter and FIFO operations serving the WA resources industry. He joined Skywest

IAG (the parent company of British Airways and Iberia) has signed a firm order for eight Airbus A330-300s, confirming a deal announced earlier this year. The aircraft, to be powered by GE CF6s, will be operated by Iberia.

Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) figure reveal the extent of the disruption caused by the ash cloud from the Chilean Puyehue volcano in June, with Australian domestic airlines cancelling 5.3 per cent of all scheduled flights for the month, whereas typically just over one per cent of flights per month are cancelled.

RAAF F/A-18 Hornets have conducted a “familiarisation sortie” with Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) F-15 fighters, the first time aircraft from the two air arms have exercised together in a bilateral environment. The flight, conducted on July 14 during Exercise Red Flag Alaska, involved 3SQN F/A-18s and F-15s from the JASDF’s No 4 Air

Hawaiian Airlines will permanently increase its Honolulu-Sydney frequencies to a daily a schedule from December 14. The airline announced plans last year to operate a daily service during the peak April 6 to August 1 travel period this year, before reverting to a five times weekly schedule from August 2, but says the delivery of

CASA’s director of aviation safety John McCormick has described the regulator’s decision to ground Tiger Airways as an “extraordinary action” that came due to “concerns about Tiger’s ability to operate safely”. The CASA boss used his monthly emailed newsletter to industry, ‘CASA Briefing’, to explain the decision in his first public comments on the high