The World of Aviation

Singapore Airlines has created a single holding company – Budget Aviation Holdings – which will own and manage its two low-cost airline subsidiaries, the long-haul Scoot and Singapore-based Tigerair. Current Tigerair Singapore boss Lee Lik Hsin has been appointed CEO of Budget Aviation Holdings in a move that sees founding Scoot CEO, New Zealander Campbell Wilson, move

Hong Kong Airlines has announced it will launch daily flights to Auckland from November 10. “With the success of our service to Australia earlier this year, Hong Kong Airlines is more than delighted to announce this second long-haul service, operating daily to Auckland, New Zealand,” Hong Kong Airlines chief commercial officer Li Dianchun said in a statement on

Hawker Pacific has created the new role of general manager helicopter sales and support. The new position will be filled by the company’s current rotary sales manager, Matthew Hardy. The company says Hardy will be “responsible for overseeing and developing Hawker Pacific’s integrated helicopter sales and product support services across the Asia Pacific region,” and

Waco Regional Airport in Texas was closed for most of Tuesday after an RAAF C-27J Spartan suffered a reported double tyre blow-out while conducting touch-and-goes during a pilot training flight. “The Royal Australian Air Force has commenced a safety investigation after a C-27J Spartan aircraft had an incident on landing at the conclusion of a

Tigerair Australia has signed a two-year heavy maintenance contract for its Airbus A320 fleet with SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC), with the work to be carried out by SIAEC and its joint venture company, SIA Engineering (Philippines) Corporation, at their facilities in Singapore and Clark, Philippines respectively. Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp told Australian Aviation the arrangement was

In the music industry the term is a ‘stadium-filler’, the ability of a performer or band to fill a large sports stadium with fans for a concert. The world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, certainly proved itself to be a stadium-filler when an estimated 20,000 people lined the fence at Perth Airport to see it touch down