The World of Aviation

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced it will move its corporate headquarters from California to Washington DC in 2011. Currently located at El Segundo near Los Angeles International Airport, the move means there will no longer be any major aerospace companies based in California, once the hub of the US aerospace industry. But the relocation will

Air New Zealand announced in late December that it will commence direct services between Sydney and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands from July. The flights will initially operate once a week during a four month trial period over the late winter peak using 223-seat 767-300s, after which a decision on the longer term future of

The Qantas and AirAsia groups have announced an alliance between AirAsia and Jetstar aimed at reducing fleet acquisition, operating, fuel and spare parts costs for both low cost airlines. The announcement, made in Sydney by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, and Jetstar CEO Bruce Buchanan on January 6, aims to pool the

Airservices Australia will man the control tower at Camden Airport southwest of Sydney for extended hours during the 2010 Scout Jamboree being held at nearby Cataract. The Jamboree includes flight activities by Scouts at Camden, and the tower will be manned from 09:00am to 5:00pm daily between January 5 and January 13 to support an

US lawmakers have finalised the US$636.4bn (A$700bn) FY2010 US defence budget, and it has been signed into law by  President Obama. As expected, the FY010 bill sees production of the Lockheed Martin F-22 fighter wound up in early 2012, which will give the USAF a total of 187 F-22s. The bill has also seen the

Qantas passengers around Australia and New Zealand were affected by delays on January 3 after the airline’s Amadeus check-in system crashed for the second time in two months. The system experienced a server outage of about one hour during the morning peak which produced flow-on delays for most of the day, the airline only catching