The World of Aviation

The Virgin Blue Group has submitted an application to the International Air Services Commission (IASC) seeking to reallocate some of its Fiji capacity from V Australia to Pacific Blue ahead of the entry of Jetstar onto the route in March. The application seeks to transfer 360 seats which had been allocated to V Australia to

Bell Helicopters has announced that it has received a STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) to increase the hot and high performance of the Bell 407. The STC draws on excess power available from the 407’s Rolls-Royce 250-C47B engine to support revisions of the 407’s performance charts for in-ground-effect and out-of-ground-effect hover. Specifically, it uses available power

British Airways cabin crew have voted overshelmingly to strike as part of a campaign for better pay and conditions, while a strike by Lufthansa pilots which crippled the German carrier has ended early after its union and the airline agreed to new talks. The Unite union, which represents BA cabin crew, said that 81 per

Queensland Airports Limited has recorded growth in passenger movements of 2.9 per cent during January across its three airports. The growth was primarily driven by the Gold Coast, which was up 3.3 per cent compared to the same time last year. This was primarily driven by 23 per cent growth in international traffic through the

The first Boeing 787, MSN ZA001, was forced to divert to Moses Lake, Washington State, on February 19 after it encountered an uncommanded loss of thrust in one of its Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines. According to the blog of Boeing’s vice president of marketing Randy Tinseth, engineers from Rolls-Royce and Boeing identified that the

Embraer reports there is strong interest for the Phenom 100 very light jet in Australia and the region following a successful sales tour of the type in February and before that, the aircraft’s display at the Singapore Airshow. Phenom 100 PP-XOQ, a company demonstrator based in Brazil, is mid-way through a 10 week tour of