The World of Aviation

IATA said in its August Premium Travel Monitor that bookings in business and first class in the Asia Pacific region are starting to rise again, driven in part by a general rise in trade across the region. “The strongest rise in economic and business activity has been seen in the Asia Pacific regions, where private

Regional Express (Rex) has slammed rival QantasLink, claiming that it has engaged in predatory pricing on the Townsville-Mackay route after the Qantas subsidiary increased capacity and dropped its lead-in fares to $99 one way. ”It looks like they are trying to push us out,” Rex managing director Jim Davis told the Townsville Bulletin. “We have

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told The Australian that Jetstar would not take over any more routes from the Qantas brand despite the success in turning around losses in the Japanese and domestic New Zealand markets. “We have decided that, with Qantas, we have gone to a minimum network, a network we can’t drop below,”

Boeing’s A160 Hummingbird vertical takeoff UAV has successfully demonstrated a series of flights with a foliage penetrating radar called FORESTER. The radar flew for 53 hours aboard the A160 and demonstrated its ability to see through foliage that may be masking troops or vehicles as part of a DARPA sponsored development program for the US

The US Navy says it wants to operate all of its aircraft carrier based combat aircraft on biofuels by 2016, according to a report in US blog ‘DOD Buzz’. The plan, called the ‘Great Green Fleet’, would see all the carriers powered by nuclear energy and ships systems by biofuel generators, and all aircraft operating

The US Air Force has retired its last active F-15A/B. The final aircraft, F-15A tail number 77-098 (an FY77 budget year model delivered in 1979) has been flying with the Oregon Air National Guard since 1994. The A and B model F-15s were replaced by the F-15C/D in production from 1980, and have been slowly