The World of Aviation

Daily Lufthansa flights by an Airbus A321 between Hamburg and Frankfurt from April next year will be the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights by an aircraft using biofuel. The flights will operate for an initial six month period under the ‘burnFAIR’ research project and will be powered by a 50:50 biofuel blend mixing conventional

International passenger numbers into and out of Australia grew by 10.8 per cent in September compared to September 2009, new figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) show, a continuation of the strong growth trend of recent months. In total 2.313 million passengers flew in and out of Australia on scheduled

The repair bill for Qantas’s A380 VH-OQA which suffered an uncontained engine failure near Singapore on November 4 is likely to approach US$70m (A$72.7m), according to an insurance company. In a monthly industry update, US based Aon Corp says damage caused by the failure “has been valued at just under $US70 million as a result

The shareholders of British Airways and Iberia approved plans for the two airlines to merge at meetings in London and Madrid on November 29. Scheduled to take effect from January 21, the merger required the approval of BA shareholders for its ownership to be transferred to a new holding company, BA Holdco. The new company

Dassault has delivered its 100th Falcon 7X, with the aircraft handed over to a Brazilian financial services company on November 22. The aircraft was handed over over at Dassault’s Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre. Dassault says to date the Falcon 7X fleet has flown more than 57,000 flight hours, with the fleet leader accumulating over

Federal parliament has passed legislation to strengthen airport planning processes and improve community consultation as part of the government’s Aviation White Paper process. “The reforms contained in the Airports Amendment Bill 2010 recognise that airports exist primarily for aviation purposes, there to serve the national economy and the flying public,” Minister for Infrastructure and Transport