The World of Aviation

China Southern Airlines has announced that it will extend its additional services currently being operated on the Sydney-Guangzhou route over the Christmas season to March 27 due to strong demand. The airline is currently operating daily services on the route, which were to have been reduced to the regular five times weekly schedule from February

Infrastructure & Transport Minister Anthony Albanese publicly released the long awaited National Aviation Policy White Paper, entitled Flight Path to the Future on December 16, revealing few surprises. “The government’s aim is to give industry the certainty and incentive to plan and invest for the long term, to maintain and improve aviation safety and security

The Commonwealth has signed a three year contract with Boeing to support the RAAF’s 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets in service. The contract is valued at about $20 million per year and will provide 74 jobs at RAAF Amberley, most of whom will be Boeing Defence Australia employees. “Under the contract the Boeing Company will provide

Strategic Airlines is preparing to introduce an A320 which will be based in Perth to serve the Perth-Derby route and to service charter clients. The 156-seat A320, registered VH-YQA, was delivered into Australia during November, and as of December 15 was undergoing fitout and painting at John Holland Aviation Services in Melbourne. After completion, it

Thousands of Virgin Blue passengers were left facing massive delays after the airline’s check-in systems at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport failed on December 15. The failure was caused by damage to a Telstra cable at Tullamarine during the day, which was not fixed until 10:30pm, forcing the airline to cancel 48 flights and delaying up to

Boeing’s oft-delayed 787 Dreamliner took off on its first flight at approximately 10:27am local time on December 15 (approximately 5:27am December 16 AEDST) from Paine Field, Everett, to begin a three hour long flight test. The aircraft, ZA001 registered N787BA, was piloted by 787 chief pilot Michael Carriker and engineering pilot Randall Neville, with the