The World of Aviation

Qantas will soon open the doors on its new premium passenger lounge at London Heathrow Airport, another element in its upgraded passenger offering ahead of nonstop flights from Perth to the United Kingdom capital due to launch in March 2018. The facility, located at London Heathrow Terminal 3, features seating for 230 people split over

Airbus has named a senior executive from Rolls-Royce as the successor to John Leahy as its chief salesman. The airframer announced on Tuesday (European time) Eric Schulz would join the company as an executive vice president and its chief of sales, marketing and contracts for Airbus’s Commercial Aircraft business. The 54-year-old Schulz will take up

Indonesian authorities have kept Denpasar’s international airport closed for a second straight day due to the ash cloud from the Mount Agung volcano. The volcano, located some 75km north east of Denpasar’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, began erupting on November 21. Those eruptions then spewed ash into the atmosphere up to a height of

Babcock Australasia has taken delivery of two Airbus Helicopters H175 aircraft, the first of their kind to arrive in Australia. The two helicopters, to be registered VH-NYJ and VH-NYI, arrived in Darwin on November 27 on board an Antonov An-124. The pair of H175s will be operated on contract from Dili, Timor-Leste, by Babcock Offshore

The Royal Australian Air Force’s third F-35A Lightning II aircraft has rolled off the assembly line at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ production facility in Fort Worth. The aircraft, A35-003, wears 3 Squadron markings which were applied in early November, the final stage in the production process ahead of several weeks of ground and flight testing. The

Australian Aviation has a new owner after 12 years of being published under the stewardship of Phantom Media. Aviator Media, a new company formed by Christian ‘Boo’ Boucousis in partnership with Phantom Media director and Australian Aviation managing editor Gerard Frawley, formally assumed ownership of Australian Aviation on November 20. “There are some really exciting