The World of Aviation

Three Airservices Australia capital investment projects have taken out three separate state awards for project management. The Queensland section of the AIPM judged the management of Airservices’ new Sunshine Coast Aviation Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) as the winner in the Defence/Aerospace category for its state project management awards. Airservices also won state awards for

Airbus Military has announced that the first A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the Royal Air Force has made its first flight since being converted to tanker configuration. The flight took place from Getafe, near Madrid, on September 16 and lasted for nearly two hours. The crew reported that the aircraft, its systems,

Strategic Airlines has announced that it will fly twice weekly services on a Brisbane-Townsville-Denpasar routing from December 3, taking to three times per week the number of services it flies between Brisbane and Bali. The two new services will operate every Friday and Sunday with an Airbus A230 configured with 12 business class and 144

Jetstar will add another 717,000 seats annually to its domestic New Zealand network from early next year as the budget carrier moves into the void which will be left from Pacific Blue’s departure from that market. The new seats will be provided by two additional A320s which will be deployed in New Zealand from early

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly found that Boeing has received billions in state subsidies which helped to finance the development of new aircraft, once again inflaming the ongoing row between Europe and the US over commercial airliner subsidies. Although the confidential report from the WTO has only just been handed to European and

Virgin Blue has requested a three week extension from the US Department of Transportation to respond to a tentative decision to disallow its proposed joint venture with Delta Air Lines. The Australian reports that the airline has requested that the deadline for a response to the decision be extended to October 13, while it is