The World of Aviation

US company Air Transport Services Group Inc has executed a letter of intent to buy three Boeing 767-300ERs from Qantas. ATSG did not disclose the purchase price for the three aircraft, but it is expected that the GE powered aircraft will be delivered during the third quarter of the year. Market prices for similar aircraft

ATR’s board has appointed Filippo Bagnato as its CEO, succeeding Stéphane Mayer who has come to the end of his three year term. Filippo Bagnato previously served successfully as CEO of ATR between 2004 and 2007. During the last three years, while he was Finmeccanica executive vice president technical, industrial and commercial development, and was

Boeing has announced the appointment of Kory Mathews to serve as program vice president of F/A-18 and EA-18 Programs within Boeing’s Global Strike Systems division, replacing Bob Gower who has been named vice president, Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) India.

Three Australian Army special operations soldiers have been killed and two have been seriously injured following the crash of a coalition helicopter in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The as-yet unidentified helicopter was carrying 15 soldiers and crew and was one of several heading out on an operation at about 3.30am local time on June

Air New Zealand has released its May operational statistics, showing that the carrier experienced a 3.9 per cent increase in passengers for the month, although yields were lower than the same time last year. The increase in passengers came from increases on domestic and long haul services to North America and the UK, which increased

Another ‘green’ A330 has arrived at Qantas Defence Services (QDS) in Brisbane ready for conversion to a KC-30A MRTT for the RAAF. The aircraft, the fourth of the five on order and the third to be converted at Brisbane, was built as a standard A330-200 by Airbus in Toulouse, and will be substantially modified over