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Virgin Australia has named Merren McArthur as the chief executive of the airline group’s low-cost carrier (LCC) unit Tigerair Australia. Currently, McArthur is group executive for Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Virgin Australia Cargo. She will commence her new role on May 7 2018, Virgin Australia said in a statement on Wednesday. Tigerair Australia

In the week Qantas prepares to launch the first regularly scheduled nonstop flights linking the continents of Australia and Europe, the Northern Territory government is reviving an air race first held when such an undertaking would have been inconceivable. In 1919, the Australian Government challenged the world’s leading aviators to fly from Great Britain to

As Virgin Australia prepares to receive its first Boeing 737 MAX in the final quarter of calendar 2019, group executive for airlines Rob Sharp says decisions about the new aircraft will be made in the context of its “customer needs and network”. While the initial 2012 order was for the MAX 8 variant, Virgin Australia

The Army says its new CH-47F Chinook has “excelled” during its first overseas deployment, which has seen three ‘Foxtrot’ model heavylift helicopters deploy to Papua New Guinea to provide disaster relief flights in the wake of a magnitude-7.5 earthquake late last month. The quake, which struck PNG’s Highlands region on February 26, affected up to

Jetstar will operate the Boeing 787-8 alongside the forthcoming Airbus A321neoLR on some Australia-Bali routes, the chief executive of the Qantas-owned low-cost carrier says. Eighteen A321neoLR aircraft are due to join the Jetstar Australia and New Zealand fleet from mid-2020 to 2022 after Qantas announced in February it had restructured its long-standing Airbus A320neo order to

The smallest member of Boeing’s 737 MAX narrowbody airliner family, the 737 MAX 7, has completed its first flight. On the flightdeck for the 3 hour, 5 minute flight on Friday were Boeing test and evaluation captains Jim Webb and Keith Otsuka, with the aircraft taking off from Renton, Washington State at 10:17am local time, landing at nearby Boeing Field, Seattle at 1:22pm.