The World of Aviation

A group of British flag officers has written an open letter to the UK MoD urging them to reconsider the recent decision to retire the UK’s fleet of Harrier strike fighters, a move which they say will leave the UK without a carrier borne fighter for almost a decade and leave the UK’s few remaining

The USAF has awarded Boeing a US$106 million contract to deliver 2700 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs) from January 2012. The order takes total USAF orders to 12,379 of the 120kg SDB Increment I, of which about 7000 have been delivered to date.

Boeing says it is to early to tell the impact the onboard electrical fire on and subsequent emergency landing by 787 test aircraft ZA002 made on November 9 will have on the 787 flight test program. Boeing said in a December 10 statement that it “cannot determine the impact of this event on the overall

Qantas has announced changes to its aircraft schedules to accommodate the grounding of its Airbus A380 fleet and has not yet indicated when the aircraft will return to the air. Meanwhile, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an airworthiness directive which could result in more groundings of A380s. Under the changes, the airline

Singapore Airlines has announced that it will substitute Boeing 777-300s and 747-400s on the services regularly operated by its Airbus A380s as three of those aircraft undergo precautionary engine changes. A mix of 777-300s and 747-400s will be deployed on SQ221/212/222/221 services between Singapore and Sydney and also on SQ238 and SQ227 between Singapore and

Full economy and business class airfares were marginally lower during November 2010 compared with the same time last year, according to the latest Domestic Air Fare Index report from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). For the month, the business fare index increased by two points to 97 while the full economy