The World of Aviation

Qantas has announced that it will increase the frequency of its Sydney-Johannesburg services to daily from September 21. The new Tuesday service will bring to daily the number of services between Sydney and Johannesburg, and complements South African Airways’s daily services from Johannesburg to Perth, which Qantas codeshares on. SAA will add its code to

Air New Zealand has announced that its Boeing 777-300ERs will be fitted for inflight connectivity which will allow passengers to use their mobile phones to send and receive text messages as well as access email and the internet on board. “Customers onboard our new Boeing 777-300 aircraft will be able to use their own GSM/GPRS

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that all aircraft operating in certain airspace will be required to carry and use Automatic Depedent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) Out technology from 2020 as part of its NextGen project. “This rule gives the green light for manufacturers to begin building the onboard equipment that will allow

On the same day Virgin Blue announced that it was cutting its profit outlook, Qantas said that it remains on track to record a pretax profit of $300-$400 million for the 2010 financial year. The airline made the report about its guidance in reporting its April operating statistics to the Australian Securities Exchange, which overall

Hawaiian Airlines CEO Mark Dunkerley has signed a three year contract extension which will see him continue to work with the airline while it undergoes a major fleet renewal program. Dunkerley joined Hawaiian in 2003 as the company’s chief operating officer, and has overseen the airline through the collapse of its rival Aloha Airlines, and

Boeing has received the first USAF F-16 Falcon at its Cecil Field facility in Jacksonville, Florida, that is to undergo conversion work into a QF-16 aerial drone. The Boeing led team, which includes BAE Systems, will begin engineering, manufacturing and development of the full scale manned and unmanned QF-16s during Phase 1. The drones will