The World of Aviation

Scoot has named a former Groupon executive as its new Australian boss. Jared Simcox will oversee the Singapore Airlines-owned carrier’s operations Down Under as general manager for Australia, Scoot announced on Wednesday. He starts in the role as Scoot prepares to launch Boeing 787 flights to Athens from its Singapore hub and fully integrate its

Cathay Pacific’s first Airbus A350-900 service to Australia has touched down at Melbourne Airport. Flight CX105, operated by B-LRI, arrived at Tullamarine a little before 1230 on Wednesday, after a nine-hour journey from Hong Kong. The aircraft was on the ground for about three hours before taking off as the the reciprocal CX104 to Hong

There has been a significant increase in the number of birdstrike incidents over the past two years involving high capacity aircraft operations, new figure show. The findings were part of an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report into birdstrike events recorded over the past 10 years. The report said there were 16,069 birdstrikes reported to

Virgin Australia/Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Alliance Airlines say they are willing to have the competition regulator monitor their charter operations in an effort to secure approval for a proposed partnership. In December, the ACCC knocked back the pair’s application for a charter alliance, which if approved would allow Virgin and Alliance to work

Royal Australian Air Force personnel have deployed to Nevada with an E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C platform and a C-130J Hercules tactical airlifter for the Red Flag 17-1 exercise. Alongside counterparts from the US and the UK, about RAAF 200 personnel will support and participate in missions involving up to 100 aircraft, flying over 31,000 square kilometres

No fewer than six centre fuselage sections for the RAAF’s next batch of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters are currently in production at Northrop Grumman’s F-35 Integrated Assembly Line (IAL) at Palmdale, California. The fuselage sections are for six of the RAAF’s next eight F-35As, which are scheduled for delivery in 2018, after the first two