The World of Aviation

Hainan Airlines’ parent company HNA Group is to take an equity stake in Virgin Australia as part of a new commercial alliance announced on Tuesday. The Chinese airline and aviation conglomerate and Virgin Australia have signed a heads of agreement to form a “strategic commercial alliance” where HNA will take an initial 13 per cent

  Airbus has reaffirmed its forecast of delivering 50 of its A350-900s in calendar 2016, despite the “challenges” of delays to cabin equipment. Through the first five months of calendar 2016, Airbus has delivered nine A350-900s to the likes of Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines, meaning it has to hand over a further 41 frames

The Great Barrier Reef is in crisis. With over a third of the reef’s coral dying or bleached, the future of one of Australia’s most iconic natural landmarks is in doubt. Scientists are warning that global warming, as well as ongoing coal mining and agriculture are having ongoing detrimental affects to the reef. Working to help

Air New Zealand is withdrawing from two loss making regional services – Whanganui-Auckland and Blenheim-Christchurch. The airline says the two routes haven proven unable to sustain the larger 50-seat Dash 8 Q300 following the retirement of its 19-seat Beech 1900D aircraft. General manager of networks, Richard Thomson, says Air New Zealand looked closely at the

The RAAF says it is gradually returning its PC-9/A turboprop trainer fleet to flying status as the aircraft undergo inspections following the discovery of cracking in the folding strut of the aircraft’s nose landing gear. “The PC-9/A fleet is being progressively reviewed and returned to flying. There are now over 20 aircraft flying across all Air

Cathay Pacific has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350, with A350-900 B-LRA touching down at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday morning after a nonstop flight from Toulouse. Flight tracking website flightradar24.com shows B-LRA departing Toulouse at 2:16pm on Saturday, touching down at Cathay Pacific’s home base of Hong Kong at 7:53am on Sunday, operating as