The World of Aviation

The Virgin America brand has been officially retired. The final Virgin America flight, VX1182 operated by Airbus A320 N361VA, touched down at Newark Liberty International Airport a little after 0530 Wednesday morning (local time), following its five-hour journey from San Francisco. The airline, which commenced operations in August 2007 and had Sir Richard Branson’s UK-based

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims says the growth in operating profits at the nation’s four biggest airports is no surprise, given they face “little competitive pressure and no price regulation”. On Thursday, the ACCC published its Airport Monitoring Report for 2016/17, which noted Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney Airports all increased

Boeing says commercial aircraft deliveries rose nine per cent in the first three months of calendar 2018 as healthy market conditions and a robust backlog offered a “solid foundation” for its plans to increase production over the next year. The commercial aircraft delivery numbers were part of Boeing’s calendar 2018 first quarter earnings announced on

The Australian Division of the Royal Aeronautical Society is holding a one-day seminar in June to put the spotlight on three key areas of concern for aviation safety: * Drones: Assimilation into current airspace * Flight Deck: Training standards & the man-machine interface * Airport and Cyber Security: Weaknesses & challenges The event, which will

Airbus and Dassault Aviation have announced they will team to develop and produce Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS). Designed to replace German Eurofighter and French Dassault Rafale fighters in service from 2035, the FCAS program is intended to secure European sovereignty and technological leadership in the military aviation sector for the coming decades. “Never

The Pentagon has stopped taking delivery of F-35 Lightning II fighters from Lockheed Martin, including at least one aircraft for Australia, due to unresolved corrosion issues. The corrosion reportedly resulted from a known production error in fasteners that hold composite exterior panels to the aircraft’s airframe. The issue was discovered in 2017 during depot maintenance