The World of Aviation

Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says the airline group is making good progress in efforts to cut costs and position the business for sustainable growth and profitability amid challenging market conditions. Borghetti told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in Brisbane on Wednesday there had been little change in market conditions since Virgin

Qantas has completed the installation of internet wifi equipment on board a Boeing 737-800 ahead of customers being able to use the service “early next year”. The 737-800, VH-XZB, was fitted with a satellite antenna, multiple wireless access points in the cabin and other hardware at Qantas’s Brisbane engineering base. The airline said it took

Current Sydney Airport chief financial officer (CFO) Hugh Wehby will have responsibility for the airport’s operations and the potential opportunity at the proposed Badgerys Creek airport from Janauary 2017 after being named the company’s new chief operating officer (COO). Sydney Airport said in a statement on Tuesday that Wehby’s appointment to COO was prompted by

Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure Paul Fletcher says the government is on track to issue Sydney Airport the sales contract to build and operate the proposed airport at Badgerys Creek before the end of 2016. In a speech to a Committee for Economic Development of Australia event in Parramatta on Monday, Fletcher said work on the

The first RAAF P-8A Poseidon appears to have arrived in Australia on delivery from Boeing. On Monday afternoon Twitter user and defence journalist Mike Yeo Tweeted this screen capture from flight tracking website Flightradar24 that shows P-8A A47-001, using callsign ‘ASY 21’, on approach to Avalon Airport near Melbourne after crossing the Tasman from Auckland. And

Qantas is counting the cost of Sunday afternoon’s wild storm over Brisbane, with four aircraft damaged amid 150km/h winds. Pictures taken from passengers and ground staff over the weekend showed stairs striking a Qantas Boeing 737-800 while passengers were on board, with one incident piercing a hole in an engine cowling. Meanwhile, a QantasLink Boeing