The World of Aviation

Dublin based Macquarie AirFinance has chosen to open an Asia Pacific office in Singapore. The Singapore office will be staffed initially by Australian Harry Forsythe, vice president marketing, Asia Pacific. John Willingham, chief executive officer of Macquarie AirFinance, commented, “We are excited to have an established office presence in Asia/Pacific and are eager to assist

Airbus has denied claims that it plans to outsource up to 20 per cent of its engineering work to India by 2012, but maintains that its long term plan is to seek more global partnerships. The speculation came after Indian newspaper The Mint reported that Airbus would move one fifth of its engineering and design

Embraer’s vice president airline market Mauro Kern says that the company is considering establishing a second E-Jet final assembly line in China. Kern told Aviation Daily at the European Regions Airline Association’s annual meeting at Interlaken that the manufacturer was expected to have a firm view on whether to assemble E-Jets in China in the

Infrastructure & Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has approved the construction of second building at the Gold Coast Airport campus of Southern Cross University. The $50 million facility will include lecture and teaching spaces, faculty offices and student facilities and is due for completion in 2012. It was part of a major development plan and as

Cobham Aviation Services Australia (formerly National Jet Systems) has won an extension to its contract with Australian air Express, which  will see it continue to operate three BAe 146QT freighters for the Qantas-Australia Post joint venture. “This is a significant achievement for Cobham,” said Cobham CEO Peter Nottage. “For relationships like this to stand the

Qantas’s A380 project was named the National Project of the Year by the Australian Institute of Project Managers in Adelaide on October 13. The project beat 107 other submissions to take out the prize. The AIPM noted that that the $2 billion project took six years and involved more than 1000 people while also having