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Qantas has announced it will lease a Boeing 767-300F freighter for services on the Tasman, increasing its capacity by 40 per cent over current services which are operated by a wet leased ATI 767-200F. The new aircraft, which will also be the first to feature a new Qantas Freight-specific livery, is being added to cater

Australian Aviation deputy editor Andrew McLaughlin was awarded the National Aviation Press Club’s ‘‘Aviation Journalist of the Year’ for 2010 in Sydney on Friday night. McLaughlin was also awarded ‘Aviation Defence Story of the Year’ and was runner-up in the ‘Aviation News Story of the Year’ category. “The 2010 Aviation Journalist of the Year and

Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler will leave the airline on March 31 next year to take on the position of director general and CEO of IATA, replacing the retiring Giovanni Bisignani. Tyler’s replacement as CEO will be the airline’s current chief operating officer, John Slosar. “Our congratulations go to Tony on being recommended by the

Lockheed Martin has announced that South Korea has ordered four C-130J Hercules transports for delivery from 2014. The aircraft are the stretched fuselage variant, and add to a fleet of C-130Hs already in service in Korea. The deal also includes two years of support and an aircrew and maintenance crew training program.

Emirates has now deployed the Boeing 777-200LR on both of its twice daily Dubai-Perth flights, with the type replacing Airbus A340s on the early morning EK425 service with effect from December 2. The 777-200LRs are configured with eight first class suites, 42 business class lie-flat seats, and 216 economy class seats.

The RAAF retired the F-111 on December 3 after 37 years of service, with a flypast of Ipswich, Brisbane, and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts by six F-111s accompanied by four F/A-18Fs, and a final F-111 singleton display overhead RAAF Amberley, the type’s final flight. The flights were the culmination of two days’ of retirement