The World of Aviation

The RAAF’s F-111 is making its final public displays during its final week of operations. On Monday November 29, two F-111s will visit the Sydney region, flying over RAAF Richmond between 1.00 and 1.30pm, and then Sydney Harbour between 1.30 and 2.00pm. Also on November 29, between 11.30am and 2.30pm F-111s will fly over several

Qantas has returned the Airbus A380 to service three weeks after the QF32 catastrophic engine failure, with flight QF31 from Sydney to London via Singapore departing on late Saturday afternoon. “It’s great that we can reintroduce the aircraft,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said at Sydney Airport before the flight’s departure. “We are 100 per cent

Jetstar and Japan Airlines have announced plans to expand and extend their codeshare arrangements on flights between Australia and Japan for a further two years. Adding to the agreement first signed in 2007, the two airlines will extend the agreements currently in place for services between Cairns and Tokyo, Gold Coast and Osaka, and Cairns-Osaka,

Virgin Blue has commenced an upgrade of its Brisbane Airport domestic terminal. The refurbishment, which commenced on November 25, will see more modern amenities including parents rooms added, and improved lighting, general finishes and other improvements added over the next five months. “This is the first major overhaul of our facilities at Brisbane Domestic Terminal

A Jetstar A330 first officer has been sacked by the airline for “multiple breaches” of its code of conduct after he wrote an article for The Age newspaper criticising Jetstar’s plans to establish a Singapore base using Australian registered aircraft. In the article, published in mid November, Joseph Eakins, who is also a union representative

With the first of Qantas’s A380s to take off on Saturday on a revenue flight for the first time since their grounding after the QF32 incident, it’s worth considering the cost that the airline has had to bear with having its flagships out of service. For the three weeks the entire fleet was grounded, possibly