The World of Aviation

The Honourable Company of Air Pilots has released details of six scholarships it will offer in 2016 for the Australian region. The organisation, which has qualified pilots, navigators and rear crew as members but is not a trade union, says two scholarships worth more than $1,000 are sponsored by Assessment Services Limited – one scholarship

A second ratings agency has lifted its assessment of Qantas stock back to investment grade, sending the airline’s share price up more than one per cent in afternoon trade on a flat day for the broader market. Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday upgraded its senior unsecured ratings of Qantas to “Baa3” from “Ba1”, restoring an

Thai Airways looks set to the be second Airbus A350 operator to Australia with flights to Melbourne scheduled to feature the next generation widebody from July. A report from the Airline Route website said the Star Alliance member opened reservations for its Bangkok-Melbourne service with the A350 over the weekend. Currently, Thai flies twice daily between

Qantas’s international network has achieved a double-digit increase in passenger numbers in January, as the boost in capacity in the month was more than met by market demand. The Flying Kangaroo’s overseas flying carried 618,000 passengers in January, up 13.3 per cent from the prior corresponding period, figures from Qantas’s monthly traffic figures released on Monday

Somewhat lost in the Defence White Paper noise is a new $5 billion project to replace the RAAF’s Hawk lead-in fighter trainers. The White Paper’s accompanying Integrated Investment Program document, which outlines new defence capability acquisitions, briefly notes that it: “…also includes a substantial provision
 for a new lead-in fighter training system to support those

The Defence White Paper and its accompanying Integrated Investment Program foreshadows significant new investments in Army Aviation, ranging from the early retirement and replacement of the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) to the acquisition of a new armed light helicopter for Special Forces support and additional Chinook heavy-lift helicopters. The early retirement of the Tiger