The World of Aviation

Pratt and Whitney has nearly completed the redesign of a faulty engine part responsible for delays to deliveries of the Airbus A320neo family of aircraft, a news report says. The Bloomberg news agency reported on June 19 Airbus executive Klaus Roewe telling reporters the engine maker was “close to finalizing the redesign”. “We’re reasonably confident

Hawaiian Airlines is well placed to be opportunistic in terms of network expansion in the period ahead given its strong presence in a number of international markets and as it takes delivery of new Airbus A321neos and Boeing 787-9s, chief executive Peter Ingram says. The Honolulu-headquartered carrier has worked to rebalance its domestic and international

Wellington Airport forms an important part of New Zealand’s transportation network. The airport handles close to a million international passengers annually and has somewhere in the vicinity of 70 scheduled international flights per week. Long-established carriers at the airport include Air New Zealand, Fiji Airways, Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia. Together, they link New Zealand’s capital to Brisbane,

There were two power plant-related incidents on turboprop aircraft in a five-year period between 2012 and 2016 that resulted in injuries, a report shows. The figures are in a recently published Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report on power plant failures in turboprop aircraft. The report found there were 417 engine-related occurrences involving turboprop aircraft

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cathay Pacific has become the second airline in the world and first in Asia-Pacific to take delivery of the Airbus A350-1000. The delivery flight of B-LXA took off from Airbus’s Toulouse headquarters with airline staff and media on board a little after 1440 on Tuesday (European time), landing at Hong Kong Airport about 12

Bundaberg-based Jabiru Aircraft has dispatched more than 6,500 engines since the company was founded by Rodney Stiff in 1988. Today, it powers aircraft all around the world, and 2,000 of those engines can be found in Jabiru airframes. It is quite an achievement for an Australian-owned family business that has recently announced the arrival of