The World of Aviation

Cathay Pacific plans to start seasonal nonstop flights between Hong Kong and Christchurch over the summer period as part of its existing alliance with Air New Zealand that the two carriers hope to extend until 2022. The new flights were scheduled to operate three times a week with Airbus A350-900s, commencing on December 1 2017

Virgin Australia is dropping Abu Dhabi from its route network as the airline concentrates its international long-haul flying on the United States and North Asia. The airline said in a statement on Monday it would no longer commence Perth-Abu Dhabi nonstop flights that were slated to begin in June with Airbus A330-200 equipment. The decision

The RAAF’s first two Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighters have touched down on Australian soil for the first time, landing at RAAF Base Amberley on Monday afternoon ahead of their planned appearance at the Avalon Airshow from Friday. The ABC’s defence reporter Andrew Greene has reported the aircraft landed at Amberley just after 5:00pm on

Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of integration and testing of the first of seven flight training devices it is building for the RAAF’s new PC-21 turboprop-based Pilot Training System ahead of first delivery to Australia in the third quarter of this year. The device is an evolution of that Lockheed Martin supplied for

Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Leo Davies has released details of the Royal Australian Air Force’s new strategic document that will inform how the RAAF continues its journey towards becoming a fifth-generation force over the next decade and beyond. Against the backdrop of increasing strategic uncertainty and complex operational challenges, Air Force Strategy 2017-2027

Raytheon Australia’s Electronic Warfare Training Services (EWTS) has completed 2,500 flight missions in support of the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Defence Force. Using two heavily-modified Learjet 35A jet aircraft fitted with advanced electronic warfare systems, Raytheon’s Electronic Warfare Training Services conducts missions ranging from EW system training, test, experimentation and evaluation trials, to